brad dielman

I paid a visit to Flickr earlier today only to find this message instead of my photostream:

Flickr is having a massage.

For updates, please check the Flickr Blog.

No big deal. I’ve seen it before. I did check the blog and I read the following:

Well, we’re sorry about the downtime folks, but some of our image caches flaked out on us, which caused all sorts of weirdness on the site. And not good weirdness, either.

I didn’t think much of it. Server issue. It happens. I have to deal with problems like that from time to time. Well, a few hours later I decided to try again. Flickr was back online! Cool. I decided to view a photostream of a friend of mine when I noticed that a thumbnail of one of his sets had a picture of a naked woman. Now, this didn’t offend me in anyway, a bit strange and somewhat out of place though. Especially since the photostream was from a trip he had taken a while ago, and I know I would have remembered seeing this picture.

Deciding it was nothing, I moved on to my photostream and to my surprise I found a pixelated picture of a beauty salon where I should have found one of my nephew dancing with my daughter. Looking further, where there should have been a picture of Madeline with her cousin Allen, there was a picture of what appeared to be a man covered in chocolate. Not exactly something I would put in a Christmas card.

Needless to say the nice folks at Yahoo… er, I mean Flickr have taken the site down again:

This is no fun. Photo cache flake outs are everywhere.

Again we apologize for the downtime. I’ll update soon.

Let’s see what the morning will bring I guess.

Checked this morning and everything seems to be back to normal. Not a moment too soon either. My mother emailed me this morning to say that she was viewing my recently uploaded photos.

The folks over at Happy Cog have redesigned their site. It really is amazing. The layout, the colors, the style… all superb. The thing that struck me as the the best part of the new design is the navigation.

Most site navigation that you see on a web site is either a horizontal or vertical unordered list with either simple links or buttons pointing to the other pages. On the new Happy Cog the navigation is folded into a mission statement outlining the basic goals of the agency. Genius!

Its one of those things that I never would have thought to do in a million years, but when I see it, it makes perfect sense.

Congrats guys on a wonderful new look!