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UPDATED 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it’s a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon as the issue is resolved, you will be logged in. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Additionally, downloads of Skype have been temporarily disabled. We will make downloads available again as quickly as possible.

…for those trying to get in touch. For those pissed off that I don’t
give out my Skype details: I’m ashamed of my high, squeaky voice.

Update:

Where we are at 1100 GMT
By Villu Arak on August 17, 2007.

Hello all,

As Europe has woken up to a new day and Asia is entering the evening hours, here’s the latest on the sign-on problem.

We’re on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may continue throughout the day.

An encouraging number of users can now use Skype once again. We know we’re not out of the woods yet, but we are in better shape now than we were yesterday.

Finally, we’d like to dispel a couple of theories that we are still hearing. Neither Wednesday’s planned maintenance of our web-based payment services nor any form of attack was related to the current sign-on issues in any way.

We’ll update you again as soon as we can. Thanks for hanging tight.

Man, I didn’t realize how dependent I was until it went down.
WHERE IS EVER’BODY?

Comments


Comment from Christopher Taylor
Time: August 16, 2007, 4:41 pm

Well, nobody expects you to sound like a grizzly or tiger.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: August 16, 2007, 4:46 pm

Righto, Chris. James Earl Jones he’s not.


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: August 16, 2007, 4:47 pm

What’s Skype?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 16, 2007, 4:52 pm

Internet phone service, without which…well, I was going to say my phone bill would be atrocious, but with calling cards these days I’m reaching the UK for 2.2 cents a minute. But Skype is definitely more convenient.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 16, 2007, 5:00 pm

Holy shit! My little mention of Skype was apparently enough to float sweasel.com to the top of the Technorati listings for people searching “Skype down.” We’ve just gotten 490 hits since I posted this.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: August 16, 2007, 5:03 pm

Porn.
Sex.
Teen-age.
Penis extension.
Colin Powell.

There! My job here is done, Weas. Now what’s your stats look like?


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: August 16, 2007, 5:05 pm

Whoa. I’m stuck in…in…the Filter!

Serves me right for allthose catchy terms.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 16, 2007, 5:09 pm

Hang on, McGoo…I’m coming! There.

Jesus.

What made you think THAT would squeak past Akismet?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 16, 2007, 5:59 pm

Wow. That was wild. We’re off the front page now, but I make that…five hundred and something in an hour. Whee!


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: August 16, 2007, 6:09 pm

Yes, I will grant that trying to squeak Colin Powell past The Filter was a bit much.

I figured all them naughties might keep the hits coming.

As usual, I was wrong.


Comment from Lokki
Time: August 16, 2007, 6:09 pm

Damn! And here I was thinking that you were only 12 posts from 16,000, and I was going to watch real careful and sneak in and post “Nayh, nayh, nayh! I got Weasel’s 16,000th post.”

Instead that 16,000th post was wasted on some gutterskype.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 16, 2007, 6:22 pm

Actually, we passed 16,000 before I left work this afternoon. The Technoratilanche came around 16,005.

Sixteen thousand, incidentally, is less than Ace o’ Spades gets in a day.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: August 16, 2007, 6:26 pm

Hey, Lokki. Saw your name on the wall in The Filter earlier. Who’s Betty, and does she really do all that on a first date?

Go for the 16,666th post. That’ll be – like – tomorrow unless we get Weasel’s numbers up.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: August 16, 2007, 6:29 pm

Well, I’ll help all I can Weas, but I don’t know that many more dirty words.

Should we do another round of Rage Boy limmericks? Booger haiku?

Something different?


Comment from Jessica
Time: August 16, 2007, 7:26 pm

Yeah, I’m bumming – skype is basically my phone.
And, shit, if I’da known that I would get some action posting about it, I would have!


Comment from TattooedIntellectual
Time: August 16, 2007, 7:32 pm

Umm, it would have been nice if they’d posted that last night when I was having a panic attack at being disconnected from the world! Thank you for being the skype news clearinghouse sweasel 🙂


Comment from Jessica
Time: August 17, 2007, 9:44 am

My Skype came back on at 4:10 am. How do I know that? I was AWAKE and at the computer when I saw it come on. It’s still on at the moment (9:44).


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 17, 2007, 9:52 am

I couldn’t get in between 5 am and 6:30. I tried a few times. Not only did Skype fail to login, if I let it sit there it would GPF. Okay, I know programs don’t GPF under XP, but I don’t know what you call it these days when a program craps out.

Up at 4 or not got to sleep yet?


Comment from Enas Yorl
Time: August 17, 2007, 10:32 am

Thanks for hanging tight.

Dude, your service is being run by hippies!


Comment from Gnus
Time: August 17, 2007, 10:38 am

Clearinghouse Sweasel.” I like that.

In other news, Hillary is pleased with where she is

Me too.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 17, 2007, 10:48 am

Whoa. He’s right. Her staff should’ve been more cautious. That there’s a goldmine of potential jokes.


Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: August 17, 2007, 10:56 am

I thought it had already been determined that all politicians were whores?

She was just confirming the obvious.


Comment from Dawn
Time: August 17, 2007, 12:18 pm

We cut the land line to our house a while back. One of the problems with doing that is people think because I have a cell phone, I should always be available to talk. People are annoyed when they get my voice mail?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: August 17, 2007, 1:39 pm

Holy whatthehell? Somebody just found this site on a google.co.uk search for “my penis is black am i an artard.” And the sick part? I’M THE NUMBER ONE HIT!


Comment from Dawn
Time: August 17, 2007, 2:03 pm

Another number 1! Congratulations!


Comment from porknbean
Time: August 17, 2007, 3:33 pm

What is an ‘artard’? And did the chicks take a shower and get poultices for their whip marks after ‘the beast’ breezed through Whore Central? Do they get tipped extra for that?


Comment from jwpaine
Time: August 17, 2007, 3:35 pm

Like her hubby, The Beast always has a tip for the ladies. At least a tip.


Comment from Dawn
Time: August 17, 2007, 4:13 pm

jw – Bill does not pay for what he can rape for free. Hookers just aren’t his style…He wants them to resist.


Comment from porknbean
Time: August 17, 2007, 6:31 pm

Eww. Bill. Big fat doughy white thighs in running shorts. I do not understand how any female thought him handsome with those thighs and equally doughy Jimmy Durante style schnozz.

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