Steady on, San Francisco! The city, if not the entire blogosphere, is still reeling from the lack of a SFist Tech Roundup post last week. But we have a very good excuse. All right, actually we don't have a good excuse at all. It's an incredibly dull excuse that involves southern California, spotty Internet connections, no outgoing e-mail access, and no good way to synch bookmarks between a desktop PC and a laptop.

But good excuses are what the tech industry is all about. As a public service, here are some excuses to use for your next blog post, staff meeting, Nobel acceptance ceremony, malpractice hearing, or just for fun around the house:

I was responding to negative feedback.
Online crap vendor service eBay made its API available to developers for free this week. For those who don't pride themselves on knowing all their TLAs: an Application Programmer's Interface allows external programmers to develop applications using someone else's data — in this case, it means that programmers no longer have to pay eBay's licensing fees to develop their own websites that access the site's auction data with a new interface. For example, listing your currently running auctions from the front page of your vendor site, without requiring customers to do a search. Considering that eBay extensions and front ends have become something of a cottage industry, it's pretty remarkable for the company to make their data public.

(More about eBay, EA, Sun, Sony, Fox, and snakes, after the jump).