Monthly Archives: April 2011

Rainy-Day Roundup (AWS cloud Fail)

This was an interesting week, with the first “cloud failure” big enough that anyone with an Internet connection took notice. There has been much gnashing of teeth and hyperbole, and several embarrassing moments for a lot of teams, not least at Amazon. I think it is worth spending a few moments to take stock. The specific cause of the

ipad 2 mute bug

Now that I know the solution this is head-slappingly obvious, but prior to that it was driving me nuts for most of a week so I am going to share this here for people searching for a solution. The behavior I experienced was suddenly most, but not all, apps on the iPad had no sound and I couldn’t get it to