A Day in Paradise

And the internet grinds to a halt!

Seriously though, I went to blog something yesterday and discovered that my page was taking forever to load. It was pretty clear that the reason for the delay was the ads which were being displayed synchronously from google and holding up the display of my page. I did a bit of surfing and found this problem on just about every site I visited, either because of adsense advertising or the use of the google analytics.

I went to search for something and for about 40 minutes google was dead. Scary!

Having said that I’ve noticed some nice things about the Gmail chat interface. It is a lot smarter than your average Ajax client. As I type I noticed that because I was logged int Gmail someone sent me an IM. Google must be down (again) because when I look at the chat sidebar I get an “Unable to reach Google Mail. Please check your internet connection” which is followed with a little clock which is ticking down until it will try again. Strangely I can still respond to the IM, although my messages aren’t going anywhere.