Daily links problem
Hey there, link-fans.
It looks like del.icio.us is having some issues this evening, namely telling me that I’m trying to hit its servers too often – which makes no sense, because I’ve tried five times in the last hour, and those are the first five times in the last 24 hours. The end result of this fact is that I can’t actually submit any bookmarks this evening, let alone hope they’ll get dumped here later, so we can only hope that I’ll be able to do some sort of marathon upload tomorrow (because I have spare time coming out of my arse, you know).
The error message has the Yahoo branding all over it, though, so I’m not gonna get angry at del.icio.us until I’m sure it’s not the fault of their new overlords. But I am quite miffed to find a service that has been virtually flawless for twelve months has suddenly locked me out completely. That sucks. Like, big time.
If the situation changes within the next half-hour or so, things may be OK, but I’m not staying up all night on the off-chance. I have a day job that actually pays for my bandwidth, and they’re not so tolerant of people phoning in sick due to lack of sleep. Sorry, guys. I’ll make it up to you as soon as I can.
Update 00:21 25/10/06 – Still no joy, despite the fact that every other Yahoo service is wide open to me right now. If I had loose teeth to spit, I’d be doing it. Anyone wanting to do a study in internet service dependency issues should probably email me privately…
October 25th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
I had some problems with del.icio.us submissions yesterday, too. I think they’ve sorted it now though.
October 25th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
Good to know it’s not just me; it was still touch and go earlier on this evening, but (fingers crossed) she’s up and running at the moment, and I’m trying to do two days worth of links as swiftly as possible…
October 27th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
[...] Yet more weird and freaky quasi-graffiti from local scribbler ANOR, who appears to be on a binge at the moment. While I don’t actively advocate the defacement of public or private property, I have to be honest and admit that I don’t mind seeing this sort of thing around at all. It’s that whole interstitial urbanism thing, you know. Whoa, what a week. It’s been half term for the local schools, which means that the library has been inundated by hordes of petulant or mouthy kids, as well as a healthy dose of stressed and snappy parents thereof. Suffice to say, it’s been a real teethgrinder. Add to that the mid-week del.icio.us outage, and a few other minor factors, and it feels like I’ve hardly had time to sleep.That having been said, I managed to get some important things done on my afternoon off yesterday, the most major (and time consuming) of which was filling in an application for a new job. This is mostly on the off-chance, really – it’s a civil service post, and I’m not sure they’ll be keen on my rather random employment history of the last decade or so, but there’s no harm in trying. Especially considering that the full-time salary advertised is nearly half again what I earn at the moment, and they are offering part time posts – if I was to land it, I’d be able to devote more time to writing and still be earning a comparable amount of money. That sounds pretty damn sweet from where I’m sat. Incoming! [...]