Oops! LHW Crashes the Intertubes
Well, the $19.28 per night promotion that Leading Hotels of the World was running crashed and burned, igniting a small orphanage across the street as well as an adjacent pet shop while flaming debris scorched a crowd of people who were lined up to give blood for Wall Street Melt Down refugees. Very sad.
I mentioned the LHW promotion last week. At the time I pondered whether or not the entity running the promotion had learned from past disasters and lined up enough servers and such to handle what I was sure was going to be a substantial amount of traffic. Of course, I thought, nowadays everyone knows that these types of promotions are huge and no one wants the kind of black eyes given out when they badly underestimate demand. So I was wrong. Welcome to my world.
Apparently, people who tried to enter online found access blocked for a couple of hours before the whole thing was pulled down and put to sleep. Then e-mails were sent out to interested parties to allow them to try again via an e-mail method. Some backing and filling and later that night the whole concept was put in a straightjacket, heavily dosed with Thorazine, and locked away in a secret bunker deep beneath the
As of this writing the whole promotion is now postponed, presumably until the Internet is replaced by microscopic laser communicators lodged deep in our hippocampus. Or is it hippocampi? Yup, I looked it up - hippocampi.
