I’ve had a BlackBerry with unlimited data plan for around 9 months now and have gotten little use out of it.  Even though CellularSouth, my regional provider, claims 3G speeds (EVDO) between the small screen of the Pearl, the horrible built in browser, and flaky YouTube streaming, I only end up using it for Facebook, Gmail, and the wonderful Google Maps application.  …Thankfully my provider doesn’t disable the internal GPS in order to get you to pay a monthly fee for their services like some national providers.

While I’m stuck at work however, or at local airports not willing to provide free wireless I’ve really been wanting to leverage my unlimited data plan and tether my BlackBerry to my laptop and leverage the modem function.

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Apparently this is what I learned today.  Click for big.

I’m really not sure what we are getting ourselves into with this system.  Its going to be a beast!

So I got a wild hair, and decided to actually post something on my blog today, but was surprised to find my site was completely down!

IT: Its a head banging good time

For some reason WordPress was having problems accessing the database. I did a quick check of my Webhost’s cPanel, and the database itself using MySQL and everything checked out. I confirmed other databases I had hosted still worked fine, which put the problem back on the WordPress installation and Database. The wp_config.php file was exactly the same as it was when I last touched it a few short months ago.

Exhausting all of my stellar trouble shooting skills, I turned to the Google Machine. After 10 minutes of trying various search terms, I came across another WordPress user who had this problem a few days ago.  It seems WordPress randomly gets tired of using the same database login and decides to just stop working until you give it a new friend to play with.  Five minutes later I have a shiny new database user created and a updated wp_config.php file uploaded.

…I bet you can guess where that got me since you are reading this post.  So now I have two perfectly good database user IDs, only one works for every database other than WordPress.  I’m reminded how much I hate technology and full of self-loathing that I have made it my career.  I encounter way too many issues that are resolved without determining a root-cause.

MacRumors really hosed up with their MacWorld update feed.  …and now their site seems to have crashed.

It seems someone has hacked thier update feed.  I’m getting texts from people that can get to the site that the updates range from STEVE JOBS HAS DIED to STEVE JOBS IS GAY.