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LiveJournal Servers Go Down
Wind writes "According to any journal hosted off of LiveJournal.com, the LiveJournal data center Internap has suffered a critical power failure, leaving all of LiveJournal and its content temporarily offline and requiring the revival of 100+ servers. Perhaps Six Apart wasn't quite prepared for the responsibilities of a website of this size? Updated information is posted here."
For those who don't know what's so hot about it and for those who think Livejournal is just a bunch of teenage girls whining.... Livejournal has just about four years of my life documented. The ease of use and the ability to "vent" is comforting, but the real value comes in the interaction. My friends see my life at their convenience and I see theirs at mine. We can choose to ignore the whining of others or we can choose to relate and comment on our own experience. Think of it this way: Open-source philosophy, emotion, and life. I put my own out there and others add to it. I add mine to others. Granted ... those quiz/meme things HAVE TO GO. I do not want to read about "what frog best resembles me" or "which 80's hair band song is me." Grrr.