Silly Google-reader outage explanation
This afternoon we experienced a brief outage, during which about half our users seemed to lose their subscriptions.
Fair enough, it was only temporary, but wait here’s the reason:
This can happen when one of the many complex systems that power Google Reader experiences a glitch.
No kidding, a glitch! And I was sure it was going to be a bug or a gremlin! That has to be one of the most redundant sentences ever.