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SingNet doesn’t like Slicehost too much. I’ve been having some troubles connecting to the host. There’s a 20% chance that the request would time out. It’s like 1/5 of SingNet systems aren’t working.

Other Singaporeans like pkchukiss and Jeremy encounter similar problems with we earlier discussed in Slicehost forums. Both of them mentioned they mailed the technical support so I guess I’ll just wait and see.

Basically, there’s some problems with the internet backbone (probably the C6 cervical vertebrae or something). After randomly tracerouting and pinging here and there, it appears SingNet’s machines aren’t properly configured to a SingTel node.

When with Media Temple, this blog takes ages to load, but at least it loads. With Slicehost, this blog loads quickly and that is if it actually loads.

Are there any other Slicehost users in Singapore?

[The problem appears to be resolved.]

• @uzyn: the last time i had no internet, i had anxiety, spasm and insomnia #
• @miccheng weekends are slow days, haha #
• just discovered TwitterFox, it’s a great firefox extension, i found Twirl a little too intruding and Twitter web a little too much a hassle #

A simple story that illustrates the forces shaping social media. CommonCraft tells you what it is.

Social Media in Plain English

I like CommonCraft’s presentation method. You can’t say it’s another tech video. It’s well done. (via Unique Frequency)

“Social”, today, is one of the most overuses Web 2.0 words. The investors must have totally dig this word or something. The bigger blogs mention that all the time: social bookmarking, social news, social media and social networking. In Singapore there’s social escort too, alright that’s slightly different.

I’m really happy today and I keep posting new entries. And why is this so? Because my internet seemed a lot faster and Media Temple seem to be behaving pretty well. Is it the end of their storage and whatever problems?

We’ll see. But so far so good. I’m pleased. I mean, at least these stuff actually is loading.

On a side note, having internet has always decrease my productivity a little. So much things to read, so much things to catch up. Often, I hear people saying they aren’t productive and attribute it to the internet. I work and breathe the internet, and I thereby admit that I grew unproductive due to it. I guess that’s a reasonable tradeoff considering the wealth of information available in the internet.

Even with search, newsreaders, social networks and blahblahs, I never really achieve much productivity boosts. These tools merely introduce new distractions, new things to try on. Things that require your time, your energy. Things that break time and again and have this huge beta label on it.

I live by them now.

• teh interwebs so sloow these days………. #

My internet’s really slow today for some reason. Gmail’s slow. Google’s slow. Digg.com’s slow. The only fast site is my router control panel.

I restarted the router and modem to no avail. I think it’s rebelling or something, since I haven’t let it rest for quite a little while.

I always find it what telcos do funny. Here is my recent bill from SingTel.

Here’s the breakdown if you’re blur and short-sight and can’t see from the nice picture that I posted: (more…)