All Posts Tagged With: "speculation"
GMail’s own Fail Whale
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Fri, Sep 04 2009 | 2 Comments
A few days ago GMail simply crashed. The website was down for a few hours and all across the internet it seemed as though people (particularly those attached to their Gmail accounts) were going to jump off the deep end.
Of course, Google does pride itself on its services that it offers, but you can’t expect for anything on the internet to be up 100% of the time. While it was a giant inconvenience for the site to be down during business hours on a weekday, sometimes this kind of stuff happens.
However, sometimes it is not always the fault of the website that you are trying to visit that is having the problems. While Google hasn’t come out and said exactly what happened on Tuesday to lead to the huge failure of its Gmail system, there is a quite a bit of speculation going around the internet. Of course there is a lot of speculation floating around, what else were people going to do while they couldn’t access their email accounts?
Sometimes, and it seems most frequently with large sites like Twitter, the cause of outages is a group of malicious programmers trying to shut the site down for their own enjoyment. Twitter experienced an outage last month and it was all due to a group of Russian programmers that wanted to shut down an account of a rival that lives in the neighboring country of Georgia. It seems like a lot of trouble to go through just to get your point across.
I only decided to touch on the Gmail fail because every news outlet I have been reading has been talking about it and going back to the “The internet is not safe and venerable” statement to remind everyone how “bad” the internet is. Well, this is not something new that people just discovered when Gmail crashed.
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Tags: Twitter, russian programmers, gmail
Unemployment numbers are actually on your side.
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Sun, Mar 29 2009 | 1 CommentEveryday there is something on the news about doom and gloom and unemployment. Even if unemployment was at 10%, that means the rest of the country is floating around 90% employment. I believe that those odds are pretty good.
There is a lot of of speculation regarding employment numbers, however, I know someone in the IT field who was offered a job in Dallas recently and may be able to keep their home because of it. Dallas is supposedly one of the hardest hit locations in the U.S. with unemployment and the housing crisis.
The number of unemployed is calculated by the number of people actively seeking a job in the last 90 days, this probably includes those laid off, fired, or have quit their jobs but not those who are retired.
My husband and I were talking about jobs recently and decided if you need a job badly enough, you will take anything. If things are handed to you, the chances of you taking a job that you find “below you” go down greatly.
Just remember when you’re watching, reading, or hearing the news, unemployment figures are a bet against you and the odds are on your side.
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Tags: speculation, housing, crisis
SEC is looking into Steve Job’s health disclosure
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Wed, Jan 21 2009 | 0 CommentsAs I wrote in an earlier post, Apple’s stock price seems to be tied to the health of its CEO Steve Jobs. Now the SEC is looking into his health disclosure to see if it has misled investors.
Last week, Jobs announced that he would be going on a six month medical leave. Speculation about his health ranges from his pancreatic cancer has returned to he needs a transplant due to complications from the treatment of the cancer.
Investors are angry because Jobs’ appearance has not been consistent with what was being disclosed and when his health condition was finally disclosed, stock prices dropped 7% in one day.
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Tags: jobs, apple, investors
Over-spending this holiday season
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Thu, Nov 27 2008 | 0 CommentsIn the video below, the anchor interviewing Jennifer Openshaw says that each person will spend over $800 this year on gifts for friends and family. The number is from “speculation” and is higher than what was spent last year.
Openshaw says that in the current economy consumers are trying to cut their costs, and that includes buying “used clothes” and finding other ways to make a dollar stretch further. I hate to dwell on just one phrase of a 4 minute video…but “used clothes?” Could she not have used a word like “second-hand” like the anchor suggests instead?
Anyway, she goes on to say that consumers should not spend $800…They should take that number and cut it in half, then cut THAT number in half, to $200. Also, not buying for people who you think don’t deserve gifts.
She goes on to suggest when shopping for other adults, to buy second hand items as gifts. I know that it will save you money, but most of the people I know would rather have a less expensive item than one that has been “pre-loved.” I would buy a second-hand item for myself, but not for others.
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Tags: shopp, consumers, spending
Oil falls below $59 a barrel
Jennifer McClelland | RSS | Tue, Nov 11 2008 | 0 CommentsIf you read the headlines, you may see a headline or two that mentions oil falling. The reason is the same every time… People are worried about a “widespread recession” and there is a “drop in demand.”
Here’s the news about the drop without the speculation as to why:
December delivery for U.S. light, sweet crude fell to just over $58 a barrel around 10:00 CST. When it hit $58.32, it had hit its lowest level since March 2007.
It’s nice to see an almost 2 year low. I’ll just wait for OPEC to ruin it
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Tags: recession, December, speculation
