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My Twitter feed, which I pull through Yahoo Pipes, hasn't updated here since yesterday. It's a fair bet that it's related to the ongoing Denial-of-Service attacks launched against Twitter (apparently collateral damage in a Russian cyberattack on a pro-Georgia blogger!) and their successful-but-broad defenses against said attack. Pipes' IP is probably pinging Twitter constantly, so the defenses treat it as an attacker and block Pipes.

I could change the way the Twitter feed gets through, but that would lose a lot of filtering and parsing I've set up in the Pipe, so I'll give it another few days to catch up.

In the meantime you can follow me on Twitter directly.