Recently, I have found FlipBoard for the iPad. If you haven’t seen this product, where have you been. Seriously, they’re even in Newsweek and I just saw them in an iPad ad this evening.

Here’s a demo of the app:

Pretty freaking sweet isn’t it.

And its free! Yes, FREE!

I still don’t get this. Its getting such great buzz around the web, why not charge some money for the app. I get wanting to get a bunch of people using your app and generating growth. But relying on advertisement revenue isn’t always the best plan. Why not get some of that cash in the door now.

Some of your may have noticed that this site was down for about a day. Oh who am I trying to kid. 3 people noticed if that and most of you are probably reading this going, “oh, you had issues. I guess so, you’re writing about them.”

Since we’re all here on the same page, let’s continue shall with with the postmortem.

What Happened?

On Sunday morning, a little after 9:30 AM I noticed that I was no longer getting email from my server. Which was kind of a bummer as I had just gotten a cert setup for IMAP+SSL. I started poking around doing the usual pings and traceroutes. It was clear that I wasn’t having a connectivity issue to the internet, this was clearly an issue with my server. Web was down, smtp, ssh, everything. Ugh, not good. This server had issues about 6 months earlier where half of its ram died. I should have seen this as a sign to move everything off right then and there. But I didn’t.

Nice concept, but you will probably be waiting a while in order to get that call. Maybe people are more vain that I think that they are and are googling themselves often.

Simply wicked!

As I was checking in today on the latest tech news, I found out that Twitter has announced that they are building their own data center.

Death to the fail whale they are calling it. Maybe so, but what really got me was this.

Twitter will have full control over network and systems configuration, with a much larger footprint in a building designed specifically around our unique power and cooling needs.