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DSG Sports Day

Coming 29th August 2009 is DSG Sports Day!

There will be plenty of activities for everyone on that day such as Human Foosball, Hand Pong, Ultimate Frisbee, Dodge ball and many more.

Be sure to be down before 7.30am because that is when the flagbreak will begin.

Dragon Chapter members are also invited to be present, and you will be invited to join your former patrol as a “guest patrol member” to help earn points for the patrol.

Link: DSG Sports Day event on Facebook

See you there!

Site Availability on Twitter

As a follow-up to my previous post on site availability, tweets are now posted on our Twitter whenever we receive an alert if the website goes down and recovers after that. However, it should be noted that these tweets could be lagging by up to 30 minutes.

This feature is useful for users of Twitter. Remember to follow us if you are using Twitter.

Site Availability on Twitter

Happy Birthday Singapore!

Celebrating NDP

Today is our nation’s 44th birthday. Happy Birthday Singapore!

To find out more about this year’s National Day Parade (NDP), please visit the official NDP website.

Tuned in to the NDP show via the webcast (starting at 6.15pm) and join in the Pledge Moment which is happenning at 8.22pm!

Note: Above image taken from the official NDP website

Map And Compass

Map And Compass Cover

Having your exploration test soon? This ebook would be a good read before taking that “hard-to-pass” test, to refresh your basics.

eBook: Map And Compass [ original copy | mirror copy | 540KB | Source: The Dump ]

Site Availability

Site Availability screenshot on Facebook

Site Availability screenshot on Facebook

Some of you should be noticed this section (previously known as “Uptime”), box in red in the above screenshot, on our Facebook page for a while now. As you may know, our website may occasionally go offline (server hangs, restarts, error serving page, etc…) which are beyond our control. Our website is generally stable and seldom goes offline for extended period of time, but when that happens, it is good to keep you informed as well.

Facebook and Twitter can fill in this gap as they are located off-site and they have the budget (and incentive) to keep their website almost 100% online and available to everyone. It is also not possible to us to constantly monitor and update there whenever the website is offline, so we have engaged the service of 3rd party service providers to show the site availability as they check our website at regular intervals.

Our site monitoring services are provided by:

  • Pingdom, monitoring every 1 minute since 30th July 2009
  • Hyperspin, monitoring every 1 hour since 8th April 2006

The links to these services can be found on our Facebook page under the “Boxes” tab.

So with this, the next time Dragons Online! appears to be offline, you should know where to find out and confirm our site availability!

Update: See my follow-up post on Site Availability on Twitter