Notice of Planned Outage: I Appreciate That!

I found this message, when I logged onto Blogger: "Blogger and Blog*Spot will be unavailable Wednesday (2/27) at 6:00PM PST for about 10 minutes for maintenance."

So, if about 90 minutes from now, you can't find this blog: you'll know why.

And, I appreciate these "heads up."

Social Network, Blog, and Web Brand Statistics

"Top 10 Social Networks, Blogs & Web Brand Rankings for Dec. 2007"

Nielson Ratings, reported by "Marketing Charts," with comments.

I noticed that blogging is still a growing phenomenon.

House of Weens: A Blog About Stretch, the Dachshund

"House of Weens" is now at blogger (houseofweens.blogspot.com/. This dachshund blog (featuring Stretch) was formerly hosted at wordpress.com.

The Perfect Server: Blogger's Eldorado

Google's Blogger (or BlogSpot, as it seems to be called now) was down for at least an hour this morning. You know that already, if you read the previous post on "Apathetic Lemming of the North."

I wasn't happy, when I saw Google's error message - and later learned that the "30 seconds" they suggested as a time to wait before trying again had passed over a hundred times since the service interruption had started.

On the other hand, this isn't the first time I've had service interrupted: although this is the first time it's happened to me at Google.

This situation reminded me of the quest for the Perfect Server: the server than never needs maintenance, never has down time, and provides perfect service, 24/7/365.

Perfection would be nice, but we won't find it around here. For the list-lovers out there, here's an excerpt from "The Big List of Perfect Things You Won't Find," a fictional book that doesn't exist.

You won't find the

• Perfect Car
• Perfect Server
• Perfect House
• Perfect Apartment
• Perfect Meal
• Perfect Man
• Perfect Lawn
• Perfect Garden
• Perfect Woman

But that won't keep some people from looking.

You'll find a more "real world" discussion of the service gap in "Google Blogger Server down?" at BlogCatalog. Again, BlogCatalog.

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Sorry About That!

This blog was unavailable for at least an hour this morning.

Since you're reading this, you've come back to try accessing it again: thank you for your patience!

Google seems to have been doing some maintenance: and about time! My service has been a bit 'iffy' for some time.

I'll be back with a 'real' post as soon as I can.

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