Filed under: Web services, Yahoo!
del.icio.us experiences extended downtime
If you're not directly
affected and haven't heard the cries of agony of the tagging geeks (such as myself), you're among the few who haven't
noticed that del.icio.us is down. The social bookmarking service's
datacenter experienced a power failure last
Wednesday and had been running sketchily up until yesterday, when it went down for "emergency maintenance."
The power failure, it turns out, caused some RAID corruption. The good news is that no data has been lost; the bad is
that a day later it's still down. In his blog entry understatedly titled "continued hiccups" del.icio.us daddy
Joshua Schachter says that databases are being reindexed and for us to "hang in there." For how long is
anybody's guess, but if it's not fixed today there may be rioting.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
