August 30th, 2007 was a big day for me.  I came as close to my 15 minutes of fame today as any Internet code monkey could wish too.  Yes wikirage went to number 1 on both digg.com and del.icio.us.  The joy was a little short lived because the digg headliner put a major hurt on my DB server and caused me to scurry and slap together some rudimentary caching of the homepage.   I guess you haven't been digged until the flood of traffic cause you to rethink your scalability, Christoph explained to me that your first system crash due to traffic was a Badge of Honor to be talked of proudly.

I've had some good suggestions as to how to extend the services, and people are asking for APIs into the data that I'm gathering.   I'd love to keep working on the project but I need to get back to my day job and see if people continue to use the tool or if it was a flash in the pan.  

Also very exciting to me is that I got a Mashable write-up. If I'd been slash-dotted my life would be complete. Oh yeah, if you can't figure out why the phonetics are the way they are, why it is 'wick a ridge' not 'wicky rage',  I don't know how to explain it to you. I can't explain it to Carrie who knows me better than anyone wants or needs to.