As Dan Kennedy notes, Howie Carr's column on Jim Marzilli today is your basic called-in faux-outrage piece about a pol in trouble. But read down to the last two sentences - man, Howie loves working at 'RKO.
You actually get that if you just go to www.bostonherald.com - those poor critters must've worn themselves out generating electricity for their servers.
Actually, and sadly, that error message is way too familiar to me. At work, we were getting similar messages as our community platform got more and more popular. Basically, the poor database would overload and just hang. The answer? Build a database cluster and buy better servers. Well, that, and optimize the code to reduce the number of database connections.
If I go to www.boston-herald.com , with the hyphen, I don't get that. I get a page that bascially says "I bought this domain but I haven't a clue what I want to do with it now."
I seriously wonder if there is a computer somewhere in India with a mad-lib-like template and a library of data updated after each call in show. Low pay, high skill technicians upload the latest topic-specific blather, hit the enter key, and VIOLA! A new Howie Carr column emerges for export to the next Herald installment.
I've read worse Carr columns
When I tried to click the link to the column, I got this
which doesn't quite have the aux-outrage you led me to believe it would have, but it makes about as much sense as your average Carr column.
Looks like the Herald needs to buy more hamsters
You actually get that if you just go to www.bostonherald.com - those poor critters must've worn themselves out generating electricity for their servers.
Actually, and sadly, that error message is way too familiar to me. At work, we were getting similar messages as our community platform got more and more popular. Basically, the poor database would overload and just hang. The answer? Build a database cluster and buy better servers. Well, that, and optimize the code to reduce the number of database connections.
Hyphen not wanted
If I go to www.boston-herald.com , with the hyphen, I don't get that. I get a page that bascially says "I bought this domain but I haven't a clue what I want to do with it now."
Domain squatting is such an ugly business
Because there's not much he could do with it unless he wants to get sued by the Herald. And they'd win.
And I've taken out the hyphen. ...
Fresh hamsters
Site is back up.
Outsourcing?
Perhaps there was a shift change in Mumbai.
I seriously wonder if there is a computer somewhere in India with a mad-lib-like template and a library of data updated after each call in show. Low pay, high skill technicians upload the latest topic-specific blather, hit the enter key, and VIOLA! A new Howie Carr column emerges for export to the next Herald installment.
For those who can't get to
For those who can't get to the article, it ends with:
I read someplace that he sometimes wears a 96.9 button on his shirt while doing his radio show on WRKO.