Down. And Out.

Down... for almost 24 hours:

Google’s Blogger service has been offline or unreliable for much of the day, with Blogger-hosted blogs changed to read-only mode, and posts and comments made after 7:37 am PT on May 11, 2011, removed.

In a post on the Blogger help forum, the product team said that it had rolled back a scheduled maintenance release from last night and that its “engineers are working hard to return Blogger to normal and restore your posts and comments.”

Google’s reply for a request for comment was, “The team is working on this.” The company has posted some short updates to the Blogger Twitter account and Status blog, but hasn’t yet explained what’s happening, how widespread it is, and what will happen to users’ content.

Blogger had started rolling out its first major redesign in years in April. The team said in a tweet that the outage was not related to launching the new design.

Update: At 6 am Friday Google said Blogger would be “back to normal soon.”

The posts I put up yesterday still haven't been restored and Blogger has only been back for about a half-hour as I type.  I also noted that videos have gone missing on the blog as well... all ya see is a "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" message where the vid should be.  So much for putting all yer stuff in the cloud, eh?

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 Photo:  David Guralnick / The Detroit News

Out.  That would be my Beloved Wings, who fell JUST short in their comeback quest last evening.  I had a very brief e-mail conversation this morning with a friend who said she knew I was "going to wax poetic" about the Wings today.  Well, there's this about that:

Ah, the Wings.  You'd THINK an adult... Hell, an OLD man... wouldn't get so wrapped up in something so trivial as the fortunes of a hockey team.  But I kept hope alive, even as the Sharks iced the puck with something like 00:01.4 on the clock.  "Icing!  Face off in their zone!"  That was me to SN1, who was on the phone for the last two minutes of play.  And then time ran out...

I turned the teevee off when the horn sounded, not bein' able to bear the Wonderfulness Of The Sharks from the likes of Versus announcers.  SN1 did the same.

I still can't believe they lost.  Fucking Neemee.  ;-)

I still haven't turned the teevee back on.  That's about as poetic as it gets today.

I'll be rooting for Vancouver in the Western Conference Finals, not that I really give a Big Rat's Ass.  When it comes to the SCF I'll root for whoever wins the East, for the first time in recorded history.