Summary: Clown computing is fantastic... for those who control it and charge rents (without bearing any of the risks/costs/liabilities)

"THE GMAIL" was down

My mail clients frown The boss came around To a halt business had ground

"WHEN IS IT BACK?" shouted the boss "FIX IT NOW!" she repeated

"I can't," I replied, "blame the clown!" "The admins aren't even in this town!"

Hours have passed The boss then returned Along came the CEO "We're losing money!"

"ETA unknown" "The infrastructure we don't own" "The whole day you can moan" "Even shout, even groan"

And then the coin dropped We merely got duped "The clown" is no magic Consequences are sometimes tragic. ⬆

"Google outage crashed my Thunderbird so good that the only fix is to delete the ~/.thunderbird and re-add all accounts." --Pete Zaitcev, hours ago