{"id":10922,"date":"2007-11-19T18:58:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T15:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/19\/tinyurl-coincidence\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T18:58:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T15:58:32","slug":"tinyurl-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/19\/tinyurl-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"TinyURL coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday I read the Slashdot post<\/a> discussing the power of TinyUrl web service to affect accessibility of web resources. \u00c2\u00a0Most of today, the TinyURL<\/a> web service is down.\u00c2\u00a0(Switching\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0conspiracy\u00c2\u00a0voice): \u00c2\u00a0Coincidence? \u00c2\u00a0I think not!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday I read the Slashdot post discussing the power of TinyUrl web service to affect accessibility of web resources. \u00c2\u00a0Most of today, the TinyURL web service is down.\u00c2\u00a0(Switching\u00c2\u00a0to\u00c2\u00a0conspiracy\u00c2\u00a0voice): \u00c2\u00a0Coincidence? \u00c2\u00a0I think not!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[973,1174,124,1173,1172],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-conspiracy","tag-service-availability","tag-web","tag-web-architecture","tag-web-services"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10729,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/16\/daily-tweets\/","url_meta":{"origin":10922,"position":0},"title":"Daily tweets","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is Maxim's first graduation party. 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