Just an update

I have tried to update my blog many times since my trip to Vegas. I have had several topics to discuss but never get the chance to write them down. Over the past couple of weeks I have been working almost non-stop for both work work and my side-work. I have had very little play time and in that time I decided to play with my son as soon there will be two of them to play with and I want to make sure he knows that he is very special to me. I truely believe he will be a great big brother and hope that he will always know I love him. Speaking of that my wife not only had one baby shower but two as my work hosted a sort of suprise shower for her. It was great! My department is a great one as they truely care about their co-workers. I can say that I love my job mainly because of the people I work with.

So I hope to update this site more frequently as I believe I will have a little more time soon.

Thank you for reading
David Bates

Twitter is Down Again – April 5th

Yup early this morning twitter went offline again. I mean how hard is it to keep a site up and running? This time it wasn’t due to dns changes that pointed people to the iranian army. It looks like the website is simply not responding. Maybe an API change like @Anywhere to blame. At this point nobody knows. Even Twitter’s status blog is vauge just reporting that they are looking into it.

Hope it comes back up soon.
David Bates

Cheating on winter

Stolen from Donna


This weekend was perfect >60° weather, sunny with a light breeze. It felt so wrong playing outside after having a snow shower less than a week ago.
Jess’ family came down to visit and that is always a lot of fun. They have two bright and wonderful girls that Daniel loves to play with. You can read about her family from her Mom’s blog http://merryheartcrafts.com/ Anyway we had great food and lot’s of outdoor time. We even washed all of our vehicles. I even felt better as I have been fighting a sinus infection for about 2 weeks now. But that changed. Daniel started to get sick on Saturday and Jess on Sunday. It started out as what just felt like a tickley throat but now is a full blown chest cold with fever. I feel like I stepped back about two weeks and am starting this sinus thing all over again. As I drove to Walmart this morning at 5AM to get Daniel a new thermometer it started to rain… What a way to start a Monday…At least we had the weekend.

Thanks for reading
David Bates

The Terribly Exciting Two’s

Today my son turned Two years old. He is a fabulous thing. He has made great milestones in his life and I can already start to see little glimpses of the type of man he will become. Daniel is the reason I try so hard, he has changed me in so many ways. So today I say Congrats! to my little man and here’s to another great year.

You can find more pictures over at my wifes blog: www.southernmama.com

Thanks for Reading
David Bates

Twitter not accepting Tweets anymore

Dear Twitter,

Over the past few weeks I have been unable to rely on you as a collaborative platform.
First there was the attack on August 6th that went all day. I forgave you for that as it was probably some russian 16 yr old hacker with a bot-net his daddy gave him for christmas. Then there was the blackout of all apps, exept tweetdeck thank goodness. But now you have greyed out my submit button on twitter.com and have turned my tweetdeck application into mush.

Further you have not posted why this has happened on either blog.twitter.com or status.twitter.com where you told me before to look for information. This time I believe it to be your fault as I can get to the website and browse around but cannot submit tweets.

Please know that this in now way means I am leaving Twitter. I love the service when it works. This note is a simple request to try and understand why this is happening and hopefully understand how you are going to better your service so that this does not happen again.

Now to try and figure out how we published post around before twitter… oh yeah I’ll Digg it!

Thanks
David Bates

update: at 10:30 I was able to tweet again… It looks like this storm has passed! let’s hope it doesn’t happen again.