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After our great experience with Skype back a few months ago to call hotels in Spain, we tried to login again to make some cheap calls to Canada. Just our luck, all of Skype was down! Its back up now but who is to blame?

The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update.

This is generally what software developers do when faced with bugs in their own code. Point the finger at someone else.

We spent last weekend going to a law school wedding down near Portland. They had a great local jug band, Sassparilla, play on Saturday night. The real mystery was the portrait they placed on the lawn in front of them while they played. It took me most of the first set before I realized it was a head shot of Mike Ditka. We talked to them between sets and found out they had recently moved to Portland from Chicago. Then it all made sense. Afterward we headed down to our tent by the river and slept in the rain.