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While now able to afford real women engineers, Google engineers are still embarrassed by their inflatable booth
Laughing Squid photographer Scott Beale, shooting pictures at this week's Web 2.0 Expo, was rebuffed by marketers staffing the Google booth. Company policy, they said, forbade photography of the booth. Beale complained on Twitter, and word rapidly issued from the Googleplex: It was actually okay, they said, to publicize Google's attempt at gathering publicity. Can you suggest a better headline? Leave it in the comments. (Yesterday's drew no deserving suggestions.) (Photo by viss)
Laughing and leaving
Laugh with a squid, say goodbye to a Yahoo, and relax with a flick, all in this weekend's Valleywag Calendar.
Laugh with a squid, say goodbye to a Yahoo, and relax with a flick, all in this weekend's Valleywag Calendar.
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Rackspace customers apologize for the downtime
There are a lot of posts popping up from various Rackspace customers apologizing to their customers and readers for the Web host's downtime caused by an errant truck. Here is a selection:
37signals
Will be using this situation as both a wake-up call and a learning experience. While our systems are engineered to chug through major failure, this "perfect storm" chain of events beat both our set-up and our data center's sophisticated back-up systems. We will work hard to further diversify our systems in order to make an future downtime event like this even more rare.More »
breakdowns
Truck driver in Texas kills all the websites you really use
Remember the power mishap in July that brought down 365 Main, the San Francisco datacenter? A similar incident took place today at the Dallas datacenter of Rackspace, a San Antonio, Texas-based firm which serves several local Web outfits. Unlike the July outage, which killed all the websites we waste time with — LiveJournal, Craigslist, and so on — this one took out some sites which really mattered. Laughing Squid, Scott Beale's popular Web-hosting company, went down, taking a long list of customers with it, and 37signals, the maker of Web-based software, went out — a serious matter, since 37signals actually charges for using its software. So what exactly happened at Rackspace? More »
party report
An East Coast hustler tries to cheat a fundraiser
Julia Allison, the Star editor-at-large whose Diane von Furstenberg dress made a chesty, low-cut appearance at Friday's TechCrunch9 party, where she was hunting for geek boyfriend/sysadmins, also turned up at Saturday's Laughing Squid "Paradise Lost" event. But apparently no one had told her anything about the event, held in San Francisco's down-and-out Bayview neighborhood — like the fact that it was a community-arts fundraiser. Here's what happened when the New York slickster tried to swan her way through the door without paying. More »
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Web Infinity Plus One SloshCon: Thanks, sponsors!
Are you coming to this Thursday's Web Infinity Plus One SloshCon? Of course you are! It's free and there's an open bar! More »
remainders
Remainders: Win Maker Faire tickets from a squid
- Are you going to eat all that? No? GoDaddy will take it, thanks. [Monkey Bites]
- Bridge-selling for dummies, round one— [Newswire Today]
- And round two. [Inc.]
- Yahoo to go: Soon you can use Yahoo Instant Messenger anywhere — and message your three buddies who refuse to use AIM. [TechCrunch]
- The Onion on iTunes: How is this even fiction? [Onion]
- The Onion on MySpace: Too. Fucking. Funny. [Onion]
- Local event lister Laughing Squid is giving away tickets to this weekend's DYI tech event, the Maker Faire. [Laughing Squid]
