Brian Sullivan's Random MusingsAnything and everything that interests me might show up here. <BR>My interests include Jazz, (Auto)Road Racing, NetMeeting, E-Learning, Zope/Plone, Creative Problem Solving and lots of other stuff.Does Twitter have founderitis- May 20, 2008 Whoever is in charge at Twitter really needs to knock some heads. Or maybe the person in charge needs to get head knocked. Last night the service apparently had "maintenance" -- today as predictable as clockwork the service is down for an extended period. So what is the problem -- departure of the CTO hasn't solved the problem. Evan Williams claims that the base technology "Ruby on Rails" is not the problem and is there for the long term. Maybe the problem is Evan Williams Maybe Twitter has a...http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028/2008/05/20.html#a529 Toronto Zoo- May 19, 2008 Some pictures from the Toronto Zoo taken on the weekend.http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028/2008/05/19.html#a528 Twitter continues on its trip to down the toilet bowl- May 19, 2008 Twitter off for its mostly regular afternoon trip to the crapper!http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028/2008/05/19.html#a527 Regular Twitter outage- May 15, 2008 Twitter down again!http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028/2008/05/15.html#a526 Twitter forked again- May 14, 2008 So it seems the recent departure of top technical people has not helped Twitter's stability (maybe all that money will). The site is totally unavailable at this time (645 edt) and has been for at least 12 hour. Better than sort of working I guess Strangely enough the server that is www.twitter.com is pingable (I would have thought that would not be possible at any time --makes them very DOS vulerable).http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028/2008/05/14.html#a525 |