After a mysterious down period of little over 5 minutes, occurring from about 10:59 PM central time to about 11:03 PM central time, Youtube is back online after an apparent crash, hack, or reboot. Who knows? Maybe the site will release a statement sometime soon…

Many people have probably heard of the new, Mircrosoft Technology calledSilverlight. It’s a technology to apparently replace Flash and utilize the Flash-like technology into the .Net Framework. As an added bonus, you can use this technology with languages like Python. They also mention that it will supply support for WMA and WMV on Mac OS X. Here are my thoughts on all this who-ha.

It’s an idea, but I’m not exactly sure how this would benefit Windows, and what exactly it’s suppose to do. It’s so unclear its hard to say. I’ve also yet to see WORKING support for Silverlight and WMA and WMV format on any Mac OS X browser. And truthfully, if I wanted ANYTHING to do with the .NET framework, I would use Mono. Mono is an open source multi platform framework for .NET server and client applications. It can be used with many languages, including Python, Java, Boo, Javascript, PHP, and much more. As I see it, MS is a little late on the code aspect of Silverlight, and visually, Flash still kills Silverlight. I don’t know Microsoft, I’ll guess we’ll have to see what happens in the near future.