What's up with the Tumblr API? 

I had set aside today to explore Tumblr's API.

Apparently it was the wrong day because I keep getting HTML in response to my write calls that says: "We're making some changes to our infrastructure and certain pages may be unavailable for a few minutes." This has been going on for many hours! Not gooood.

I looked all over the place to see if there were any notes about this, but haven't found anything. So as a last resort I'm asking here if anyone knows anything about this.

Does anyone know anything about this?

Who are your tech heroes? 

This question came up in a conference call earlier today and I thought it would be useful to open it up publicly.

Here's how to decide:

1. Someone who has made largely selfless contributions to open technology -- i.e. tech that people can reuse without limits or fees. Examples would be BitTorrent or HTTP.

2. Someone who you think would "do the right thing" whatever that is, most of the time. That is, someone you trust.

3. Other criteria?

Caveat: No one is perfect. You're not saying your hero is a saint. Their contribution could have been amends for past mistakes. It should be someone who has made a major contribution without asking for much in return.