Day: August 6, 2009

Twitter Down, Twitter Down

- Roshan

The little blue birdie has been shot and it’s injured it little blue wings and was unable to fly at all for some time.

This message was shown on the Twitter status page :

Site is down 2 hours ago

We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.

Update: we are defending against a denial-of-service attack.

That was 2 hours ago and then an hour later:

Ongoing denial-of-service attack 1 hour ago

We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.

Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack.

Imagine the number & quality of Tweets that went un-Twittered (is that a word? It is now)!

Another Bird Leaves The Nest

- Roshan

Another member of my team left today. Neil said his final goodbyes this afternoon just before lunch. He had come in to complete his relieving formalities and hand over his leave card. He is heading off to Chennai tomorrow night and needed some time to finish packing and buy some stuff for his move.

I remember meeting him for the first time in February 2007. Pretty soon we were in the same night shift at the office and he kept calling me ‘Jack Black’ (from his School of Rock role) and we’d talk about rock music and his unabashed love for AC/DC, Kurt Cobain & Janis Joplin. At times I’ve had to take control as he’d do something a bit silly and immature (he’s only 25) but at times he has been extremely level headed and stable.

A couple of us became sentimental and he cried too. He hugged me and I patted him on the back and told him to take care of a few things and do well, as the others teared up around me. I’m gonna miss the goofy idiot and he knows that. Good thing we have the internet otherwise how would people keep in touch?!