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Downtime for a global service? Tell me when in UTC!

17 December, 2006 - 229 words
If a service with an allegedly global audience, say one run by Yahoo or by Google has some scheduled downtime, they always give the time when it will be back, or the time when it went down, in PST. Now I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t give a flying fig about...

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Downtime for a global service? Tell me when in UTC!

17 December, 2006 - 229 words
If a service with an allegedly global audience, say one run by Yahoo or by Google has some scheduled downtime, they always give the time when it will be back, or the time when it went down, in PST. Now I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t give a flying fig about...

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Atom from any RSS feed via Google Reader

15 October, 2005 - 174 words
Got a site which only provides an RSS feed? Do you wish you could have an Atom feed of it, but don’t have mad XSLT skillz or somewhere you can host your own PHP conversion script? Fear not, because under the hood, Google Reader is all about the Atom, baby. For example: I have a del.icio.us account, del.icio.us is graciou...

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