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Re:More on today's Gmail issue by spolsky on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @11:08PM (#799383)
Wow, I was impressed by how closely this mea culpa was the same as Amazon's when they had that big S3 outage:

Compare to:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?...

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Re:More on today's Gmail issue by jodrellblank on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @12:59AM (#799500)
I was impressed how closely it resembled the huge eastern US power cut of 1965 - compare the cause described here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Blackout_of_1965

"it's all just a little bit of history repeating"

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