Video Outage...

Surprise, surprise.....!  We were hit by a Netflix "outage" last night.  It lasted -- I would estimate--about an hour or so.  I suspect-- though I do not know for sure-- that it was somehow connected with Amazon's Cloud Computing debacle last night...and Heroku, user of Cloud Computing services--and ultimately affected users out here,  JOTOLR.  It was a rather massive failure, from what I can gather,  and techies are concerned this morning about the future of Cloud Computing, still in its infancy.  It wasn't NetFlix that failed.  It was (again, if I understand correctly) Amazon, which then failed Heroku which then failed our Roku and our "romance" with the Monarch of the Glen series...interesting cascade...
For the story go to:  Cloud Computing Failure


While researching that issue this morning, I came across another piece I found compelling, especially as we forge ahead while (we hope) trying to reduce our footprint on the Earth.  It's worth a skim-read on this Earth Day.  The title is somewhat surprising.  I know I think of Apple as being very Earth-conscious, almost the "greenest of the greens."  And in many ways, it is.  But there are "hidden issues" that tell another story.  You might find this interesting...

Apple Has Dirtiest Data