Which makes my apprehension toward it all the more bizarre, Adrianne, considering my gift for the quick quip. Such would be perfect for the medium.
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: adrianne.bren...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:29:43 -0400 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Twitter agog as Google Twitter's awesome, but you have to think of it like a live messageboard or the concept doesn't work. ~ "Where love and magic meet" ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of Blood of the Dark Moon: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/botdm.html Take a bite out of Blood and Mint Chocolates: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/bamc.html Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> wrote: Even if I had thought of Twitter as an option, it wouuld've been no good for me. None of the people I needed to reach during the outage are Twitter users, and I needed to send them more than words. And I doubt I would've gone that route, even if I'd had the option. I tried Twitter for about an hour last week. Just not my cuppa. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:06:21 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] Twitter agog as Google http://vaephae.notlong.com Google's Gmail goes down for at least half an hour; Twitter lights up September 1, 2009 | 1:47 pm Google-outage Google's Gmail electronic mail platform went down about 1 p.m. PST for at least some fraction of the Web audience, and it didn't take long for tens of thousands of Twitter users to note that the service was offline. While the extent of the outage was not immediately clear, for at least a vocal swath of Twitter users, Gmail was offline for more than 30 minutes, qualifying it for Google's technical definition of a "downtime period," rather than simply intermittent spottiness. Many of Google's services essentially exist in "the cloud" -- that is, users interact with programs on Google's servers via the Web, rather than running them from their own computers. That means the company's business -- and reputation -- depends on its being available to consumers and business customers without interruption. For paying customers of Google Apps, the company guarantees that the service will be available at least 99.9% of the time. Any less, and Google starts to lose money back to businesses, which are credited with free service days based on the extent of the outage. In a 31-day month, there are 44,640 minutes, meaning that the cutoff -- 0.1% -- means a maximum of about 45 minutes of downtime. As of this writing, the Gmail outage has lasted about 30 minutes. Consumers who use the free service, of course, don't get any freebies when Google goes down. Gmail went down for about two hours in August of last year as well. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but a spokesperson left the following comment on this post after publication: On behalf of Google I wanted to let everyone know that we're really sorry for the inconvenience and working to fix the problem as fast as we can. If you have IMAP or POP set up already, you should be able to access your mail that way in the meantime. You can find the latest information on the Apps Status Dashboard at www.google.com/appsstatus. Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. Try Bing now. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Make it easier for your friends to see what you’re up to on Facebook. http://windowslive.com/Campaign/SocialNetworking?ocid=PID23285::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_SB_facebook:082009
