Dogfooding the Cloud, or, adventures in mixed metaphor

*Cloud trouble.

*Okay, we've got the metaphor of the "Cloud," and we're kind of stuck with that word.

"Backbone, Highway, Web, Cloud." From a bony skeleton to an oozing, omnipresent,

wireless fog. History of the Internet in four words.

*But, one of the larval clouds, the Microsoft T-Mobile Danger Sidekick cloud,
just failed. We now need a verb to go with that noun. The Cloud "crashed"?
How can a cloud "crash?" The cloud "failed"? Did you ever see a cloud fail?
A cloud "service disruption"? ...