thanks
just wanted to take a minute from my crazy sex,drugs n’ lsl lifestyle to extend a thank you.
First to the yahoo! pipes team for a nifty service, and for being so accessible and open when i write them about problems (props to daniel :) ).
I’d also like to extend a thank you to people who answered my call in the Babbler group the other night for people to help test out the latest version. You know who you are.
And, last but not least, i’d like to thank all the users who take the time to give me feedback, good and bad :)
-max
clogged pipes
well, seems pipes are clogged, so babbler working is spotty, at best. Naturally, this would happen during the long weekend, so who knows. I did my little canary-in-the-mineshaft (or alligator in the pipes? no,that doesn’t hold) thing and wrote to yahoo to ask if it’s just me, or pipes in general. So fingers crossed peoples!
Please don’t post comments telling me it’s broken. Although, reports of brokeness are always welcome to my SL IM, or to max.case@gmail.com. I’ll find the time eventually (ed. shurely you jest! time? ilke what, 15mins?) to put a contact form up here.
[update: 11:40AM PST Got a note that the pipes issues are fixed, so babbler works again]
babbler back
Ok. Babbler’s back on-line. be nice to it. Using curl now, so hopefully that will help deal with some problems where pipes’ hangs, which would lead all my babbler processes to back up, which caused the recent kabooms. Let me know if you have any weirdness or problems. Error reports do help.
In a cruel twist of fate (ok, maybe not) it turns out old copies of babbler(v2) were working fine throughout the outage, since I never disabled them. Just sort of figured I would let it tail off. So save those old versions! Never know when they can come in handy.
re: downtime
Sorry about all the downtime this weekend. Just to tell those who are curious whats happening (or i suspect is happening) in the last few days. It seems that pipes is still having some speed issues, which causes the bridge to hang, which piles up, which cause the boom, in non-tech speak. Or course, this is just what I think is happening, Working on doing things a different way, which will hopefully allow it to work a bit, But in the meantime, its down. Sorry.
pipes down
Y! pipes seems down at the moment, therefore babbler is down. should be back soon.
UPDATE: 12:32om PSTNow back up
UPDATE 7:34pm Sorta back up. Coverage may be spotty. I won’t get into it, its not that interesting, but problems should be temporary.
However, its given me an excuse to use the blink tag.
a rare sighting
SL Volunteer Island SW 247,253,35
This is a rare-ity. in my 2+yrs in sl, first time i've seen governor linden. enjoy.
Babbler Japanese/Chinese update
Thanks for your patience. Japanese and Chinese are now working properly. 1000 Apologies for the delay. Once I narrowed down the problem, it was stupidly simple. doh. (naturally the translation might still not make sense, but it won't be babbler mangling the reply). No update is needed on your end.
This picture is taken on PacRim on the teen grid, so don't bother following the slurl to this spot - won't work. I'm out here installing th babbler for them to use for their project, which involves japanese / na student mixing. You can read more on their site.
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