Southwest Airlines

In related news, Southwest Airlines announced yesterday that in the 3rd quarter of 2010, they had increased profits. Net income came in at $205 million, which is 27 cents per share. Last year in the same quarter, the company announced a loss of $16 million which was a loss of 2 cents per share. The operating revenue in the 3rd quarter was $3.19 billion which is a 20 percent increase over last year.

The company is still looking into acquiring AirTran.

Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell is attacking University of Michigan Student Chris Armstrong in a rather immature way.

Andrew Shirvell, has created a blog at popular blog hosting website Blogspot.com which is entitled “Chris Armstrong Watch’. The blog’s purpose seemingly is to target the President of the student body at the University of Michigan, Chris Armstrong.

According to the website located at http://http://chris-armstrong-watch.blogspot.com, Shirvell is attacking what he calls a “radical homosexual agenda.”

To the naked eye, it would seem to appear as though the whole attack is based around the fact that Armstrong is a homosexual, but Shirvell says that it is not the case. He reasons that the reason he is causing such a fuss over Armstrong is because he supporting co-ed dorms.

Look at the sign created advertising the “Chris Armstrong Watch” website, and decide for yourself.

Bishop Eddie Long

Eddie Long has recently been accused of using his power with the Baptist Church to force several young men to take part in sexual acts with him. He today denied the allegations. The majority of his church members have supported him greatly in this time of turmoil.

Although there has been no official announcement made as to what new features Eddie Long will be unveiling, The NewBirth.org website is expected to make upgrades and incorporate more web 2.0 features to their site. This means, the site should become more interactive among church members, and potential members. How will they do this? Stay Tuned!

Paypams website is down

The Paypams.com site has been a big hit with parents who want to ensure school meals and transportation, among other things, are paid on time. It allows parents to setup automatic payment plans, view account balances, receive automatic notifications on balance status and more. It is basically a website that allows parents to pay upfront to prevent their kids from losing their lunch money.

The site currently is loading a server error placeholder. There is no official word on when it will be back up and running.

Similac.com website down

This is because of the huge amount of traffic going to the website. It has caused the servers to become bogged down so much that they aren’t even loading for most customers. Similac has posted a page on their website at similac.com/recall/lookup for people who have already purchased the powdered forumula. They have all the recalled lot numbers listed there.

Since the website is not operable to most people, it is suggested that you use their phone service to get the official recall list. You can do this by calling 800-986-8850.

Alabama Department of Revenue website is down

The website located at http://www.ador.state.al.us is timing out when users try to access it.

There are several possible causes for this. Since it is the middle of the month, the downtime may be from a large amount of website traffic. The other cause could be simply a server overload for other reason such as Denial of Service attack (known as a DDOS attack). We have not been able to get any official word on what is causing the downtime as of yet.

The Alabama Department of Revenue has recently sent out letters to many Alabama residence requesting taxes be paid for online internet purchases from websites such as Amazon.com, and eBay.com. It is estimated that most states are losing tax revenues in the amounts of millions of dollars due to online purchases which taxes are not paid on. This could be a reason for an extremely large amount of traffic to the website, which in turn is causing the website to go down.

So far, about 30% of people who have received notices from the Alabama Dept. of Revenue have sent in checks for their backed taxes from fiscal years 2006, 2007, and 2008. Others still have yet to do so. The sales tax in the state of Alabama is currently 4%, and the state government expects its residence to make tax payments for purchases made online.

Has anyone been able to access the website today?

Columbia Pictures has just launched a new official website for their new movie “The Social Network”. The movie which is scheduled to be released in theaters on October 1, 2010 has been getting a whole lot of attention. At first it garnered so much news and media coverage simply because Facebook is so large. With 500,000 million members on Facebook, that’s already a huge amount of people that are going to be at least slightly interested to see what the movie is all about. Then there have been rave reviews from magazines, newspapers, and websites, that have made people become even more interested in seeing the film.

On the new website, which is themed a little bit like Facebook itself, you can view photos of different scenes in the movie, read the latest news, and watch the new trailers as they are released.

The movie is expected to be a big hit. It doesn’t have too many star actors in. The 5 main stars would be Jesse Eisenberg (who plays Mark Zuckerberg), Justin Timberlake, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara and Andrew Garfield.

The website located at TheSocialNetwork-Movie.com features several “The Social Network” trailers. The newest one can be seen below.

For those of you in Massachusetts, that have an account with Harbor One credit union, you have probably been experiencing problems with their website. Their main website (harborone.com) has been offline, and there is no word when it will be back. However, if you are trying to make a payment, get account information, or inquire about a loan/mortgage, you may still do these via their toll free phone number. Their phone payment system is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Their phone support is available on Monday – Wednesday from 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM, Thursday and Friday from 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM, and Saturday from 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM. The number is 800-244-7592.

You may also log in to your account via their website, although it is far from fully functional. There seems to be some issues with their security certificate on the website. Your safest option would be to call them during business hours.

Gap coupon offers 50% off

Groupon is a coupon group buying site. They set a limit for the minimum number of people that must purchase the offer. If that minimum is passed, then everyone who buys it will get the coupon. For the New York Groupon website, Gap set a limit of 800 people who had to take them up on the deal in order for it to become valid. As of 8:30 PM, they had 14,000+ members purchase the $50 coupon for $25.

Gap has suddenly become a social marketing master. They’ve been advertising deals on several popular social websites this past week, and apparently it’s working pretty well.

If you’re a gap shopper, you should take advantage of this incredible deal.

Julian Assange - WikiLeaks Founder

WikiLeaks.org posted the 91,000 documents obtained onto it’s website on Sunday. This amounted to over 75 megabytes of data. It bascially consists of every “significant” event to take place in Afghanistan from 2004-2010 and is categorized into 100 different categories. Everyone has access to these documents at http://wardiary.wikileaks.org.

WikiLeaks has been in the news many times in the past for presenting leaked documents to the public. The organization has raised over $1 million from the public, and “aims to achieve political reforms by getting out information that has been suppressed to the public.”

Julian Assange, who is a 39 year old ex-computer hacker said that he fears for his life at times, and does not sleep in the same place two nights in a row.