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Posts Tagged ‘fun’

You good, our server provider not so good

We got this reply in our support inbox after having sent a customer a friendly email asking how things were going with his Pingdom account. He clearly got the gist of it, didn’t he? Uptime monitoring can reveal a lot, but we have never seen it boiled down to such a concise and to-the-point message [...]

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Having fun with 404 error pages

Whenever you try to access a web page that doesn’t exist on the web server you get a 404 error page. You’ve all seen the standard 404 “page not found” message a thousand times by now, and it gets old real fast. So, wouldn’t it be nice if that error page was a little more [...]

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Robotic swordfighting makes you go wii

Nintendo’s Wii gaming console that was released a couple of months ago came with a new unique controller, the Wiimote. It includes a motion sensor so games are controlled by moving the actual controller. You’ve probably already seen or heard about it. But why play with videogames when you can play with robots? Big robots. [...]

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The marketing ninja from Hell

We found these hilarious videos and felt they were right on the money. This is why you need uptime monitoring. Sooner or later you’ll do business with this guy. Recognize him? We call him the marketing ninja from Hell. He’ll sneak up on you and get you when you least expect it. 100 percent uptime! [...]

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