Friday, February 09, 2007

Site news: Possible downtime ahead

Blogger, the software/hosting service that enables publication of this Web site, has released a new version of their software. I've put off getting the "upgrade" for as long as possible, but it appears that the service is about to force me to convert, possibly as soon as my next login.

From my semi-random perambulations about the blogosphere, it seems that many sites have successfully converted to the new Blogger without incident, and I'm certainly hoping for a problem-free experience. But there have also been notable problems and delays in more than a few places - for example, a few weeks ago the heavily trafficked political blog Eschaton went down for almost a whole day as a result of the conversion process, and others have had outages raging from a few minutes to several hours.

All of which is just a long-winded way of saying that if you try to visit StLJN sometime in the next few days and it seems to have mysteriously disappeared, it's probably because the conversion to the new Blogger is taking longer than hoped.

Should this happen, please wait a bit, and then check back again. Once the conversion is done and the site is back up, things will change somewhat "behind the scenes," but should look the same as usual to readers.

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