In case you didn't notice (yeah, I'll admit that there might actually be people in the world who didn't flinch), Flickr went down for a considerable amount of time today (something about moving 20TB of photos). Well, Flickr's back up again (thank G*d, I was starting to fade holding my breath so long). And I gotta tell ya, the genius of Flickr is that, during their downtime, they put out a colouring contest. A friggin' colouring contest. I mean, some people shy away behind geekery and tomfoolery to explain away the inevitable. Flickr? Nawh. It's like a snow day where the busses never come -- stay home fools! A make snow angels! So I made two entries. Oh, and I think I also found housing for this weekend, so thanks! But Boston, well, I'm still looking!


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Hotash · 2006-07-20 01:34:50
Harsh! But true! AND some people didn't get hit by the down time-I couldn't believe it either! I put a link back to your Blog-let me know if that's not okay-and I will remove the link. The Group: Flickr Colour (AKA color) Contest
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