Wow, within just a few minutes after a big after shock hit Haiti, the Twitter home page was showing the Fail Whale, and it still does now (more than one hour later).
A lot of retweets happening at the same time seem to cause a system overload. Once again shows that Twitter is being used as a news source for a lot of people world wide.
[update]
Twitter is back, but doesn't mention the exact cause of the outage:
... A sudden failure coupled with problems in switching to a backup system ...
Last week I posted the first YouTube movie which shows a time lapse of the first day of the construction of the 'Glazen Huis'. I've now finished a movie which shows the entire construction over a period of 8 days. Today the 3 DJ's will start for their fund raise against Malaria. I'll post a new time lapse movie on my YouTube account every day during the next week.
Using the pictures from the webcam of RTVNoord (Groningen, the Netherlands) I created a time lapse video of the construction of the 3FM Serious Request Glazen Huis (Glass House). Starting Friday next week, 3 DJ's will be in the Glass House without eating until christmas to raise money for the Red Cross against malaria.
Today I integrated my Quickies-posts (listed on the right side of the main page) with my Twitter account. You can follow my tweets here: http://twitter.com/elmartino74. Quickie-posts are now published to my Twitter account through Twitterfeed.
A while ago, I added a nice little feature on the site here which shows my last played track via Last.fm. If I'm listening to the track at the time you load the page, a nice little icon is shown next to it. By the way, Last.fm is now publishing The Best of 2009 lists. The second part was just put online.
This year they included a Michael Jackson special which features a really nice diagram (cllick to see full size).
Google announced that they will launch Google Chrome, a new browser. Among the features are a powerful JavaScript enginge, V8 and (of course) tabbed browsing, but each tab is isolated from others which keeps the browser running smooth if one of the sites loaded happens to crash. According to the blog posting it should above all, be a very smooth and fast browser.
Wonder what this will do to the market share of Firefox, my currently favorite browser...
Yesterday, Google launched Knol, an expert site similar to Wikipedia. One of the differences is that with Knol, authors are not anonymous. Users can comment on articles, rate and even review them.
Wired has an in-depth article and has spoken to several people involved in the project.
So, back from a nice holiday to Egypt. What a nice country, and what a lot of great things to see and do. Absolutely recommended! (You just have to see the traffic in Cairo!)
Trapped in a ray of light
While I was gone the server seems to have had some serious hardware issues and the site was moved to a new server. Unfortunately Wordpress is a little buggy in rendering 'fancy' quotes so the License plate script was broken (thanks for telling me Michael). I've fixed it today so new images can be generated again!
is shown next to it. By the way, Last.fm is now publishing 
