When did the tweet get so important to me?
TWC Fuels the Fires
Since they’re being such good sports (and Twitter is down for scheduled maintenance right now), I thought I’d go ahead and recap some of the better news appearances Time Warner Cable has made lately.
I just want to take a second to state that I know that most of the good people of this company are intelligent and diligent workers. It’s the upper level managers running the company that we should hold responsible for the appalling performance of this technical behemoth.
Don’t want to rent a cable box? Suck it!
Can someone explain to me how cable companies are competitors when the markets they cover never overlap?
They reported a loss of more money ($15B) in 2009Q1 than than of all their profits from 2008Q1 through 2008Q3.
Bret and Jemaine Cameo on Drinky Crow
For the roughly 500,000 viewers who watch Adult Swim, the Drinky Crow Show offered a surprise treat for Flight of the Conchords fans.
There are two alien characters that appear in the episode, “Old Girlfriend.” They are voiced by none other than Bret and Jemaine.
TWC DNS Outage. Again.
Ever seeking to reinforce their appearance of ineptitude, Time Warner Cable has stopped resolving DNS requests again today. It must be that time of the month for them. One month ago to the day Forbes ran an article about how their DNS servers are still vulnerable to attack.
I’ve bypassed this by using public DNS servers, which are usually fast anyway.
If you want to use these their IP addresses are 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2.
Site Update
I’ve been updating the site all day – hopefully I’ll have a real post in a little bit.
Oh, that photo is from Microsoft Virtual Earth. Find the story behind it here.
