Tumblr Staff: During planned network maintenance this evening, an error by our team...

staff:

During planned network maintenance this evening, an error by our team cut off traffic to a large subset of your custom domain blogs. Painfully, the full recovery took 1¾ hours to complete.

This is obviously unacceptable and an enormous disappointment to everyone working to keep your blogs fast…

^^^ This is an example of integrity. It is not a fake sincerity. Tumblr was not caught at doing anything that would suggest an ulterior motive. All companies should take heed and  learn.

Finally, here is a “guaranteed” way to lengthen your life. Childhood holidays seem to last forever, but as you grow older time seems to accelerate. “Time” is related to how much information you are taking in – information stretches time. A child’s day from 9am to 3.30pm is like a 20-hour day for an adult. Children experience many new things every day and time passes slowly, but as people get older they have fewer new experiences and time is less stretched by information. So, you can “lengthen” your life by minimising routine and making sure your life is full of new active experiences – travel to new places, take on new interests, and spend more time living in the present – see Making Time by Steve Taylor.
Why the return journey feels quicker – a fascinating read on our perception of the passage of time. (via explore-blog)

(via explore-blog)