Troseph

I was wondering why my site was taking FOREVER to load… Looks like something between Comcast and level3.net (AT&T) is really bad.. Here is the trace:

troy@troy-desktop:~$ sudo traceroute troy-watson.com
traceroute to troy-watson.com (69.89.31.181), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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4  COMCAST-IP.car1.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.79.104.110)  1051.037 ms * *
5  * * *
6  * ae-14-51.car4.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.68.105.5)  970.128 ms  829.879 ms
7  INTEGRA-TEL.car4.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.71.156.30)  840.020 ms  498.107 ms  388.462 ms
8  tg9-4.cr01.sttlwatw.integra.net (209.63.114.133)  84.859 ms  74.570 ms  77.684 ms
9  tg13-1.cr01.ptleorte.integra.net (209.63.114.98)  77.398 ms  95.024 ms  137.277 ms
10  tg13-4.cr02.ptleorte.integra.net (209.63.114.142)  895.688 ms  902.977 ms  905.247 ms
11  tg13-1.cr02.boisidpz.integra.net (209.63.114.18)  907.638 ms  910.046 ms  912.363 ms
12  tg13-4.cr01.boisidpz.integra.net (209.63.114.13)  917.004 ms  919.320 ms  921.591 ms
13  tg13-1.cr01.slkcutxd.integra.net (209.63.114.30)  923.985 ms  926.359 ms  928.767 ms
14  tg9-1.ar10.slkcutxd.integra.net (209.63.114.254)  930.246 ms  931.733 ms  933.158 ms
15  gw0-cust-bluehost-com.slkc.eli.net (70.97.59.22)  934.537 ms  74.875 ms  230.638 ms
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1051.037 ms!?!?!? Come on! This is like dialup! 15Mb/s my ass.

Well I booted my machine to vista… And this is how it went down…

Yay! Service Pack 1!

WTF Service Pack 1?

This is the coolest thing I have seen in my life. These animated images are from photos captured by Mars lander Phoenix.

Looks like MySpace has upgraded their look and feel. Finally.. I wonder how long it will be before they update and optimize their datacenters. For those of you lucky enough not to have accounts, here is their (my) new home page… It doesn’t look bad at all.