“You can’t make good decisions unless you have good information and can separate facts from opinion and speculation.” — Colin Powell
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QUOTE: Separate facts from opinion
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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TECHNOLOGY: Our old friend “network load balancers”
Tuesday, October 21, 2025https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15210077/reality-internet-meltdown-amazon-aws.html
The alarming reality EXPOSED by the global internet meltdown… and why Amazon’s crash is only the beginning
By HARRIET ALEXANDER, US SENIOR FEATURES WRITER
Published: 15:37 EDT, 20 October 2025 | Updated: 08:35 EDT, 21 October 2025
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By 11:43am ET on Monday, over eight hours after the first sign of trouble, Amazon sounded optimistic that the end was in sight.
‘We have narrowed down the source of the network connectivity issues that impacted AWS Services,’ the company said. ‘The root cause is an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers.’
They said they were deliberately slowing some services ‘to aid recovery’ and were still ‘actively working on mitigations.’
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Having once ran an IT tech support group for AT&T PBXs, I sympathize with the poor souls with an impossible task. Six 9’s is the standard — .999999 reliability — that’s about 3 seconds of downtime per year. Sometimes you just need to lucky. And, you better have a fantastic testing strategy since every change that’s introduced into this tech version of Jenga has the potential to bring down the whole shaky stack.
End Users need to plan for those outages which as in this case can last for hours.
Hopefully we never have one of those
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ENCOURAGING: Oklahoma girls’ basketball team does the moral thing
Tuesday, October 21, 2025Oklahoma girls’ basketball team returns championship after realizing they lost
- Scoreboard error gave Academy of Classical Christian Studies team the edge over Apache high school
José Olivares
Wed 15 Oct 2025 05.00 EDT
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A US high school girls basketball team is said to have proved “there are still good people in this world” after taking the unprecedented step of returning a championship it had won after realizing they had actually lost the title-clinching game.
The story stems from the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association, where a crucial scoreboard error early in the game gave the girls basketball team at Academy of Classical Christian Studies the edge over its Apache high school counterpart, as CBS News recently reported.
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“Let us remember we are in the Holy Presence of God. For more days than I’d care to count, those words were said in my presence. Not until now do I think I begin to understand them.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 371
Here’s a classic case of “doing what’s right” when it would be easier to do nothing. But forever, that coach and team would know that they did NOT win. In essence, they would be cheating themselves out of an opportunity to grow up.
“Your habits will determine your future.” — Jack Canfield in The Power of Focus
I hope that everyone make a big fuss and an exemplar of what “good American character” looks like. The most comperable example is when those Japanese sports fans at the Olympics cleaned up after themselves.
We can all learn some lessons here.
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