http://simonwillison.net/2017-06-22T00:13:00+00:00Simon Willison2017-06-22T00:13:00+00:002017-06-22T00:13:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2017/Jun/22/free-afternoon-in-san-francisco/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/310330/Free-Afternoon-in-San-Francisco-with-no-car#4486981">Free Afternoon in San Francisco with no car</a> on Ask MetaFilter</em></p> <p>My absolute favorite thing to do in SF is to walk up a hill. My favourite hill in the city is Corona Heights over in the Castro - it's beautiful and the view is spectacular. It's not part of the regular tourist circuit - you can think of it as a best-kept-secret of the city.</p> <p>If you do head there an obvious next stop is the Castro neighbourhood itself. A couple of fun hidden gems there: Five Star Chocolate Truffles &amp; Coffee sells delightful handmade truffles (for $15ish you can get one of each of all of the flavours). The Castro Fountain is a brand new ice cream place with great ice cream and incredibly exciting milkshakes.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ask-metafilter">ask-metafilter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/downtime">downtime</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/crappyairlines">crappyairlines</a></p>

2009-07-09T12:49:07+00:002009-07-09T12:49:07+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/9/postmortem/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/msg/ba95ded980c8c179">App Engine outage postmortem</a></strong></p> Interesting peek behind the scenes. The primary cause of the error was a bug in a GFS (Google File System) Master server caused by a MapReduce process sending a malformed filehandle, reminiscent of the error which took down S3 last year. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/downtime">downtime</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gfs">gfs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-app-engine">google-app-engine</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/s3">s3</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/postmortem">postmortem</a></p>