I do not know if it is just me. I am hoping Facebook is not singling me out. For the last couple of days, I have been facing this problem, where my decently powerful laptop bends to its knees while surfing pages at FaceBook. The fans start rotating at the highest possible speed they can. It works great while surfing most other pages.

Yesterday, I saw a note posted on the login site that account was in maintenance mode. May be they were "fixing" my account.

 On a serious note, I believe that all these quick to do scripting languages on the server side are running into their limitations. I have a strong belief that these scripts (RoR, PHP, Groovy, ....) make developer's life easier by providing easier to implement functionality. However, they cannot scale like powerful languages like  C/C++ and Java (and may be scala).

 I hope, someone at Facebook will fix the problem.