Who Broke the Internet?

I can imagine everyone is being a lot more productive this afternoon since the internet seems to be hosed…. well Twitter and Facebook are borked for me and both are usually the sites that distract me when I should be doing something more productive with my days off.

The last few days have been very relaxed and I should be in a state ready to go back to work now.  The last few weeks I have found myself experiencing that Friday afternoon tiredness on a Monday morning and that’s never a good sign. I definitely needed some time out of the office. We’ve been more or less constant since the start of the year.

I’ve spent my time improving my non existent photography skills and… *shudder*… shopping. Damn those inconsiderate friends for having birthdays! Still, the resulting birthday meal was a lot of fun as normal.

Now I just need to enjoy the time I have left before heading back to the office.

Update: Twitter is experiencing a distributed denial of service attack.

Keeping Up With the News

I’m off work this week, and with my next trip away not until late Novemeber this means I have a lot of time to kill.

After getting some much needed exercise running around the countryside this morning I decided I would spend the rest of the day keeping up with news regarding Hurricane Gustav and the looming transfer deadline in the Premier League.  It’s been interesting keeping up with them both.

My method of choice for finding out the dealings in the transfer market has been a live blog on the BBC Sport website.  I also enjoy reading these, especially as they accept input from texters. It’s a great big conversation centred around the news.

Keeping up with Hurricane Gustav has been made slightly more difficult just because of the sheer number of sources of information to choose from.  In the end I resorted to Sky News on the TV while keeping half an eye on Twitter in the background, although Twitter seemed slightly more distracted by the goings on the Republican National Convention.

A few years ago I remember watching the news while Katrina struck New Orleans and the flooding began.  The level of information available was no where near on this scale.  I think this is definitely one of the ways the new media has made the world that little bit better…

Down for Maintenance?

The Fail Whale

Twitter is down for maintenance “for a couple of hours.”

I’ll be amazed if they’re back in under three!

Update: Credit where credit is due. They did it. Learnt their lesson from yesterday I think

Hopefully it’s the last time we’ll see the Fail Whale for a while.