Dow Dips 400+ Points; Erin Burnett Is “On The Money”
I don’t watch much TV, and I chose an interesting day not to have one on. I had quite the “disconnected” day and I didn’t hear about the news on Wall Street until 10:00 this evening when I tuned in CNBC’s “The Big Idea” to find a special segment of “On The Money”, where the beautiful Erin Burnett was helping out with live coverage of the day’s shock in the stock market.
There were also a few other CNBC regulars for this special coverage including Kudlow and Company’s Larry Kudlow. It almost turned into a shouting match at one point but I turned the channel. I actually thought they were acting like kids at that point.
What caught my ear during this special coverage is how the stock exchanges’ computer systems failed under load to process all of the selloffs in the market — that’s embarrassing for America’s stock market and will undoutedly raise questions about the capacity of our technology to handle future transactions on this level.
Anyway, I hope everyone recovers from the events of the day. I’ve been hearing that we’ve gone 45 months without any major change on the Dow, and that this was needed. Hmmm. I’m not a stock expert.
Invited to interview Jamie Foxx
I’ve been invited to cover a Jamie Foxx show this weekend for the Interviews Podcast and a podcast I’m launching to coincide with this latest opportunity (I haven’t decided on a name yet, but there is a concept based around entertainment).
Details are still being ironed out for the Jamie Foxx interview. I’ll let everyone know about the content I’ll publish on Sunday.
Google Apps: “502 Server Error”
Seems there’s an outage in Google Apps land. I just tried to logon to my e-mail and received this message. It’ll probably clear up soon.
Google Apps Offline Over Weekend?
Upon checking my voicemail this morning, I was notified that attempts by several people to send e-mail to my domain (ronaldlewis.com) were bounced on Saturday. This is the first occurence where Google Apps has returned e-mail to my domain.
I’ve also checked with my host, Media Temple, to confirm if there was a DNS outage during this time and there was no recorded incident. I wonder what happened?
Media Temple Announces Grid Platform Upgrade
My new webhost, Media Temple, has just announce an upgrade to their fabulous Grid platform. See for yourself why I’m jumping for joy.