We Apologize for the Delay and Any Inconvenience This May Cause
While America slept, the TTAC server, without consulting with the supreme powers of TTAC, said: “What the heck, it’s Sunday. Time for a nap.”
And it went to sleep as well.
Readers who fired-up their laptops and tablets for a good Sunday-morning read were greeted by the orange band of shame: CloudFlare signaled that it had lost communication with the TTAC server, and offered a two days old version it had kept in the cache.
Finally, emergency response teams that had spent a long night in Toronto bars were roused, and they kicked the napping server back in gear.
We are deeply sorry, we promise to make it up for you in the coming days.
Due to the heroic efforts of our NAIAS team, we had the best five days in TTAC history – now we lost most of the day. As the book says:
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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"server"? Not plural, as in there is only one? Wow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK74hU_9Hvo I'm surprized we didn't get this as our "disaster" video althought if Baruth had been reporting it I'm sure this is the video we would have received. :P
http://thewebsiteisdown.com/salesguy.html IMHO, one of the funniest things to ever come out of IT.
We still love you. But I blame the Volt, or lack thereof.