Thursday, February 07, 2008

Inline images error

This is funny.
A tutorial about inserting images in blog posts... and the images on the page do not appear... :)


Bert sed:
Is it only me, or is there a change on the Internet? Download speeds are blazing fast "outside hours", and I mean capping my 5Mbps DSL regularly, which seldom happened before.
On the other hand, popular services don't respond like they used to. Blogger often takes its sweet time to load pages. Blogs have missing elements all over. Support is lagging everywhere. My iGoogle home page is not reliable. Like everybody is swamped. Or is it just Google?
What's happening?

TTL said:
Where are you based? During the last couple of days someone has been cutting undersea cables around the world. Total number of damaged cables is now up to five. Iran has been most affected by this.
Quote from the article:
"It may be rare for several cables to go down in a week, but it can happen. Global Marine Systems, a firm that repairs marine cables, says more than 50 cables were cut or damaged in the Atlantic last year; big oceans are criss-crossed by so many cables that a single break has little impact. What was unusual about the damage in the Suez canal was that it took place at a point where two continents' traffic is borne along only three cables. More are being laid. For the moment, there is only one fair conclusion: the internet is vulnerable, in places, but getting more robust."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is it only me, or is there a change on the Internet? Download speeds are blazing fast "outside hours", and I mean capping my 5Mbps DSL regularly, which seldom happened before.

On the other hand, popular services don't respond like they used to. Blogger often takes its sweet time to load pages. Blogs have missing elements all over. Support is lagging everywhere. My iGoogle home page is not reliable. Like everybody is swamped. Or is it just Google?

What's happening?

Anonymous said...

Where are you based? During the last couple of days someone has been cutting undersea cables around the world. Total number of damaged cables is now up to five. Iran has been most affected by this.

Anonymous said...

The Middle East incidents shouldn't have more than incidental effects here, but this may very well explain why some sites are experiencing trouble...

Thanks for the info.