Apple Store Status

I added a widget from pingdom to the page that will show the status of the Apple Store. This is in big anticipation of what will be announced on Tuesday. In the past, the store goes down for a bit, then comes back up with the new products. From the pingdom site, some recent downtimes....

ust in case you are wondering how often Apple actually does something like this, here are the most recent US Apple Store downtimes:
US Apple Store downtime:

Date	Downtime	Products released
January 15, 2008	4h 35m	Macbook Air, Time Capsule etc
January 22, 2008	2h 25m	Pink iPod Nano
February 05, 2008	2h 15m	iPhone and iPod touch changes
February 12, 2008	2h 15m	Aperture 2
February 19, 2008	1h 56m	Xsan 2, iPod Shuffle changes

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