Judging from the countless messages sent to the Blogger (ie Blogspot) help line, Salut!
must have been among thousands of web logs suffering yesterday from
those old bX-vjhbsj blues.
That is what the error was called and it appeared on the screen when
people tried to visit certain blogs or, once there, post and view
comments.
A technical note, intended to assist those whose blogs were affected,
helpfully advised "hitting Refresh in the browser" to "workaround the
problem".
"Workaround" one of those non-words invented with the aim of incensing
English speakers.
But in any case, the idea that blog readers get out so little that they
will sit there hitting the "refresh" key over and over again until they
can read my thoughts on the French smoking ban is mildly absurd.
If I correctly understand the next phrase - "unfortunately pushing out
the new build involved a few minutes outage" - it becomes clear that Salut! was unavailable at all for some time (and, I think, rather more than "a few minutes").
It is also evident, from a quick check on the clever site
that counts and analyses visits to my blog, in almost Orwellian Big
Brother fashion, that the effect here was seriously to reduce
yesterday's numbers. All now seems to have been resolved. Thank you for
your patience, and welcome back.
Labels: Big Brother, blogging, gremlins
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