Costco.com Partially Down
Technology March 9th, 2009
Costco.com order status page:
Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File --> <configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="Off"/> </system.web> </configuration>Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application’s <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File --> <configuration> <system.web> <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/> </system.web> </configuration>
Oops. 
Weird Google Blogger Error
Personal Productivity, SaaS January 10th, 2008
We’re sorry, but we were unable to complete your request.
What request? I did not request anything. Did not touch my keyboard or mouse at all.
Describe what you were doing when you got this error.
I was simply reading this blog post when it blew up.
This is an error I’ve observed several times recently: click on a link to read a post on Google’s Blogger: the post comes up normally, but a few seconds after I start reading it, it just blows up and I get the above error. But I haven’t touched anything – is this a speed-reading test?
Update: apparently it’s a frequent error, but typically encountered while publishing, not reading.

Zoli Erdos