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Today at around 1pm utc Twitter crashed out and hasn’t returned yet, at least to me. There have been some reports that people using tools such as the Seesmic desktop have been able to continue tweeting, but for me using Tweetdeck on the iPhone every just comes back as a big fat fail

Here’s hoping that they are able to pull the service back together soon, and when they so, please follow us @roamerdotcom

Update as of 16:19 BST

Twitter is current under a denial of service attack, their last update on the Twitter status page suggests that the site is back up, but currently I’m still unable to get any response in Tweetdeck or their main website.

Update as of 17:10 BST

It looks as if Twitter has returned, although if they are still under a ddos attack we could lose service anytime, but for the moment it’s back, and I’ve got Tweetdeck back and functioning well.

-Roamer

Well, after having my Ipod Touch 2g for 10 days I can confidently say that it’s one of my best purchases in a long while. I now use the device every single day without fail, and to say that I like the email client on it would be understating it

QXL have announced today their intention and timeline for shutting down their UK auction site qxl.co.uk

They state the the site will cease trading on friday 30th May 2008, the last date for listing items will be the 9th May, and the last day to bid and buy items will be the 19th May.

Now although I have had a qxl account for many years I have never actually bought or sold anything due to the fact that i’ve found eBay to be much better as far buyers are concerned.

What are peoples thoughts? Are you going to miss QXL? Thoughts on why etc are all welcome

- Roamer

Hi all,

Ok, after a long time of debating this, I’m finally at a point where, in a few days, I want a few people to beta test a new piece of software, and hopefully a lot of people out there who use Amazon’s astore offering will like the sound of it.

As we all know, ever since Amazon launched astore, the problem has always been (more…)

Every now and again i search through Google to see if anyone has released a new blogging client for Symbian devices. Previously I found Wavelog, but as a paid for piece of software after a few days using it in trial mode I came to the conclusion that (for me at least) it wasn’t worth it.

Today on my searches round Google today i came across Scribe a blogging client written for PyS60 (Python for Symbian S60). Now, currently I’m writing (more…)

Don’t you just hate it, you go round to somebodies house,and they mention that they could do with a little help with a problem on their computer and then a while later you’re still sitting there scratching your head LoLWell today was one of those days, but thankfully an answer was forthcoming very quickly

A friends HP desktop machine had mysteriously lost it’s cdrom and cd burner, they were there, listed in device manager, but marked as having problems – so I did the first thing we all try, uninstall them, reboot and let XP do it’s magic and bring them back again – but this time no joy… so I did a bit of searching (more…)