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Apple brings networks to their knees

This afternoon around 1 p.m. iOS 7 went live (in our area at least).

Shortly there after our organization’s Internet came to a crawl (or so I hear – I was working from home).

I dropped a quick email to our network admin:

iOS 7 anyone? đŸ˜‰

(IĂ¢â‚¬â„¢m at home so donĂ¢â‚¬â„¢t blame me)

Sure enough – later tonight I got an email confirming my suggestion. iTunes was using roughly 400MBits or more than 40% of our organization’s Internet connection.

I think @Saddington was right to be impressed that Apple’s network could handle the load of all those downloads.

https://twitter.com/saddington/status/380396490990309376

iTunes Radio – an unexpected mix

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Listening to the new iTunes Radio today.

Started out perhaps appropriately with “Maiden Voyage” by Herbie Hancock earlier today.

Tonight I created a new station with U2 as the starting point and so far it’s been fairly predictable.

Coldplay, Snow Patrol, REM, Goo Goo Dolls, Florence + The Machine.

But now… Copperhead Road by Steve Earl?!

Not that I don’t enjoy the song… but who matched that one up?

Have you tried iTunes Radio yet? Or upgraded to iOS 7? What do you think? Will iRadio be the end of sites like Pandora or Songza?

Hey Forney…

Hey Forney – I’m finally watering my yard again so we should have several days of good rain in the very near future. Your welcome.

Getting back to the basics

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m sharing more and more content here on blog – thanks in part to Pressgram.

I’m starting to get back to how I was blogging originally – just sharing fun stuff and thoughts on a whim – rather than posting them to Twitter, Facebook or elsewhere.

Seems most social networks have become more and more of an echo chamber – everybody broadcasting with few people really listening – so I might as well own all the content if no one’s really paying attention.

Teaching your kids that love wins

Sometimes I really wonder if teaching my sons to be nice even when the other isn’t being so nice is going to play out like I hope… Really awesome when it does… For me and them.