The fiasco started right when the Dell Vista Upgrade site opened for business, with the sudden flood of visitors being blamed for site crashes, delays and error messages, and downtimes lasting as long as 24 hours at a time.

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The flood of messages slowed Twitter to a crawl at times or produced error messages saying the site was over capacity.

CNN: Mark Milian,

Former Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called the decision to apologise a "serious error", Israeli news site Walla reported.

BBC: Israel PM apologies for Gaza flotilla deaths

He participated in several USAF and National Transportation Safety Board accident investigations, and worked with NASA scientists on a paper on error and aviation, his site says.

CNN: Pilot praised for 'masterful' landing

Advances in satellite observations have narrowed down the error in the path and landing site of tropical cyclones, and improved the accuracy and precision of atmospheric-weather and ocean-weather forecasts.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

David Hardy, for the developers, said the inspector fully understood the significance of the site and in the absence of any planning error it was difficult to see how he could have reached a different conclusion.

BBC: Lyveden New Bield

By the way, I received a very gracious note from Diller acknowledging his error in saying that the Daily Beast, rather than Salon, was the first original-journalism news site.

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