Power Grid failure in Ontario! No one knows why.

In fact, the situation was much more tenuous. The power blip involved an extremely rare, still unexplained failure of two protection systems, according to internal documents of the utility, reports to oversight agencies and eight engineers.

And you wonder why Flickr is moving to California?

Here is what Flickr says:

Flickr is moving to a much bigger and better data center to maintain its crazy growth. As part of our acquisition by Yahoo, we get the full run of a crazy elite facility staffed 24/7/365 by real professional sysadmins and ops people. This will really help with site performance and reliability.

Our current facility is in Canada and our new one is in the US

Yesterday, Lisa, Tara and I went to Best Falafel on Commercial Drive. We enjoy going there to catch up on the latest in Middle Eastern Politics. Lisa gets to practice her Arabic which is a major plus.

After a few minutes on politics, an Iranian guy and I were talking about economics. This was his interest. I don’t know a thing about economics. He said to me, soon all the econmy will be owned by USA in Canada. Right now the best companies that are in Canada are US. If they grow they will be bought by US. I didn’t believe it. Then I read this thing about Flickr moving down to US. things that make you go Hmm.