Today, the blogosphere and tweetisphere have been a-buzz about Google’s announcement to change it’s name to “Topeka”. That’s all well and good, but the Gmail team had some fun of their own and came out slightly ahead on the cleverness scale.
“As error rates escalated, the strain spread to other datacenters. We worked quickly to avoid a cascading failure of the entire alphabet by implementing a stopgap solution that limited the damage to the letters ‘a,’ ‘e,’ ‘i,’ ‘o,’ and ‘u.'”
“Having 80.8% of the alphabet available is significantly below the 99.9% full letter uptime reliability we strive for.”
“We’ll post an update as soon as things are fully resolved and, again, we’re v3ry s0rry.”
Okay…perhaps not so much to the average Googler, but any techie that enjoys a bit of good wit should enjoy. 😉
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