Today Travis was messing around with a Chinese site blinkx has indexed a short while ago http://www.tudou.com and saw a cryptic error message that started coming up on all pages. The message looked something like this:
各位土豆:
为了给大家提供更好的服务,我们正在搬迁扩建土豆的中心机房。
3月14日凌晨0:00 ~ 夜间24:00,我们的服务暂停24小时。
3月15日凌晨0:00 新机房就搬迁完成了,土豆会准时回家。
Now, neither Travis nor I know the language of Chinese, so what do we do? Go to


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