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BoomTown Decodes Twitter's Denial-of-Service Blog Post (So You Don't Have To)

in News on August 7, 2009 at 5:17 pm PT

This morning, in a blog post, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone gave more of an explanation for the outage that the microblogging service endured due to a denial-of-service attack. Fortunately, BoomTown can read between the lines in order to decipher the secret message herein! Biz wrote: The Adventure Continues. Translation: By “adventure,” I mean yet-another-friggin’-Twitter-birdie-crisis.
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BoomTown Decodes Jerry Yang's Here-Comes-the-Weasel-Consultants Memo (So You Don't Have To!)

in News on September 25, 2008 at 6:16 am PT

Oh, this is just too good to pass up, so it is once again time for BoomTown to let you know exactly what Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang actually meant in his internal memo to employees about the hiring of Bain & Company to evaluate its troubled business systems. Jerry wrote: yahoos, it’s time for another update. Translation: Yep! Still no adult punctuation! We might continue to face serious big-boy issues at the company, but we refuse to give in on our insistence on kindergarten spelling patterns. In that vein, would you like a nice cold glass of chocolate milk before I get to the bad news?