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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
