Random Thoughts

I tried opening my adsense account and I get an error saying it’s unavailable.  And then I checked YouTube and I’m trying to look for a certain video and it’s also terribly slow.  Gmail has been buggy these past few days too and I’m getting really frustrated.  And then I saw this:

This is your pilot speaking. Now, about that holding pattern…

5/14/2009 12:15:00 PM

Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected. That’s basically what happened to some of our users today for about an hour, starting at 7:48 am Pacific time.

An error in one of our systems caused us to direct some of our web traffic through Asia, which created a traffic jam. As a result, about 14% of our users experienced slow services or even interruptions. We’ve been working hard to make our services ultrafast and “always on,” so it’s especially embarrassing when a glitch like this one happens. We’re very sorry that it happened, and you can be sure that we’ll be working even harder to make sure that a similar problem won’t happen again. All planes are back on schedule now.

Posted by Urs Hoelzle, SVP, Operations

Well, its now May and it looks like the issue is still not fixed.  I don’t want to whine but it’s been days and it’s just really frustrating especially since I need to open my emails to check if I have new tasks from my clients. 

Can’t really do anything about it but cross my fingers and hope that they fix everything soon.

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