bloglines is down at the moment... if you're not familiar with bloglines (i've mentioned it before) it's an online news feed (RSS, ATOM, others?) aggregator... that means it pulls in new content from a whole bunch of different sites (that the user selects) so that the user can read all that new content in one place instead of having to go to who knows how many sites (in my case about 150)...
i was getting a generic timeout message before and it was very frustrating, but now they're showing the bloglines plumber (this rotund guy in overalls - and really, i think we'd all be happier if plumbers wore overalls - and a pipewrench see the picture here)... i realize now that the plumber actually makes me feel better about the service outtage - it's really weird but i'm not so frustrated anymore... maybe because i know that now someone is actually working on the problem (even if it's not that guy)... i think maybe more sites should use something like the bloglines plumber when they're temporarily down...
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