Welcome Notes

• is zdnet.com down (updated) blocked on Comcast?

  Ok, as a followup to my favorite Netflix is down post, I am unable to reach zdnet.com/news or zdnet.com/blog

  Anyone one else experiencing this issue? or did I mess something up again on my network security settings? Everything else seems to work for me, including downloads.zdnet.com

  downornot.com shows zdnet is working good, but I cannot reach anything on that site. My ISP is Comcast. I am not sure when the issue started, but I first discovered it at about 10:15am EST today

  *** Update *** 11:35am EST
  I have tried from another computer at my current location and received the same errors, I have also tried accessing it from my cell phone using my cell carrier for the ISP (Sprint) instead of Comcast, and it is working fine, but when I put my phone on wifi and connect to my network, it is blocked from there also.

  *** Update *** 12:39pm EST

  still unable to connect from home, all other websites work fine. I’ve run some tests and even changed my DNS entries to remove comcast.

  C:\Windows\system32>tracert zdnet.com

  Tracing route to zdnet.com [216.239.116.157]
  over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1 ping 216.239.116.157

  Pinging 216.239.116.157 with 32 bytes of data:
  Request timed out.
  Request timed out.
  Request timed out.
  Request timed out.

  Ping statistics for 216.239.116.157:
  Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

  Non-authoritative answer:
  

• Netflix Down?

  So, I was just trying to manage my Netflix account, at 10:30pm EST on August 8th 2011, and went to check on my DVD queue when I received this strange error. I tried going back to the previous page and selecting another link, but it still didn’t work. So I thought maybe there was an issue with Google Chrome, so I tried IE8, still no dice… Maybe tomorrow some other websites will have reported it, but for now The Netflix Members section is down, at least for me.

  Possibly they got cut off by Comcast? Who knows, maybe it is just me? I did have a similar experience with Hotmail a while back and never heard anything about it, except for my issues. So, we shall see…

  ***update now I cannot get to the netflix.com page either***
  10:45pm EST August 8th, 2011

  Wow, talk about a fast response, by the time I added the update above there were already 25 comments on this post. Making it my post with the most! I should complain about things more often! Links to this post went out via Twitter and Google+ (Public). Sometimes it is nice to know we are not alone.
  10:55pm EST August 8th, 2011

  ***Update 11:30pm EST August 8th, 2011 – Was just able to log in, view recommended movies, opened up my queue, all loaded nicely. Then I went back to [...]

• August 7th 2011

  Not too much to say today, but I’ve updated my Theme for the first time since installing it, and for some reason I did not configure my changes I made previously as a “Child Theme” and those are now lost. So I installed a Google +1 button plugin and set it up; however it won’t show on my Welcome and Android Software pages, there seems to be an incompatibility with the plugin I am using to selectively display certain posts on those pages. If you click the link to the full posts, then the +1 button shows up fine… I’ll look into removing it from those two pages in the near future, but I am headed to bed very soon.

  I really just wanted to say thank you, July was my top month, ever (June used to be!), and I know I owe it to the visitors coming to get Notion Ink Adam Roms from my mirrors page. I can prove this by stating that although it was just posted on June 4th, It is currently the 5th most popular page on my website, and will take the #4 spot by the end of this week. Most of these visitors have found my website via TabletRoms.com and I want to make sure to mention that I appreciate the Developers there for making my Notion Ink Adam usable.

• July 16th 2011

  I’ve been doing a bit of work lately,

  I have a new Rom installed on my HTC Evo, the MikG 2.3 Rom with Sense 2.1+3.0

  All my apps are reinstalled, but not yet configured, Thank you Titanium Backup for helping with that, just bought the Pro License, a bit pricey, but’ll just eat at home this week!

  I’ve added the poorly placed in the top left corner Google +1 button to the site

  It was either that or the bottom left… haven’t figured out where else to put it with this theme, but I’m looking.

  I am going to flash a new Rom on my Notion Ink Adam here in about three hours

  I have to go mow the lawn first, it looks so bad I’ve started singing “Welcome to the Jungle” every time I go outside!

  Finally got my Xbox 360 setup so I can get audio and video on my PC monitor (HD TV) and my TV

  Video has been working for a couple of months, but I couldn’t find the adapter I needed to do the audio, so I bought another yesterday, paid too much for that too..

  Reimaged my laptop, three times… still having issues with it, going to have to spend most of tomorrow on it I fear Finally ordered a replacement fan for the top of my Thermaltake PC case, it has been acting up [...]