Just a quick note. I know that Michael Johnston let everyone know last week that Typepad (his blog host) would be down for maintenance this weekend but it appears that "maintenance" has spilled over into this week too.
MJ will return as soon as Typepad gets their poop together; I'm certain. So don't go anywhere.
There seems to be a bit of chaos all over the net today. Instagram is dropping accounts and followers left and right. Twitter is seeing some outages (Elon Sucks). And there's a general feeling of connection disquiet that can be felt.
I guess we all need to take a deep breath and relax. Maybe turn off the feed and hop in a pool. Get some yards in. Feel the chill, as it were.
On a different note, the new lens has been accepted into the fold. A filter for it arrived today. I don't normally use protection filters but it's supposed to rain a lot while I'm in Vancouver and I thought I'd rather keep rubbing a filter with a cleaning cloth instead of grinding my microfiber cloth into the front element. I'll ask for forgiveness later. Lens shade also arriving --- just in time.
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Nope, it just hangs.
Mike sent out a serious of emails to his Patreon folks. Apparently, the changeover didn’t work, so Typepad is reverting back to the old system until they figure out what’s wrong. Will be a while before he’s up and running again.
Perspective from a now-retired corporate and free-lance IT guy: TOP will be back, and it's likely that someone at TypePad will be looking for work. I know what it's like to do a massive conversion or migration. It's never a low-stress event. You plan it to the nth degree, but in the end, you keep your fingers crossed that you didn't forget something, and that it all completes successfully. And you have a backup plan, most likely a reversion to the former hardware or software or system. The worst cases are those with no plan B, or plan B is a reversion where the revert time to get things back is as long as it took to get plan A up to the point when you knew you were screwed. From the outside, it looks to me like the latter is what is going on now.
I wouldn't be surprised if it took the remainder of today to get back up. These are people who have had no sleep and are running on caffeine. Meanwhile, executives are popping in frequently ... "Is it up yet?" .... "What's your plan?" .... "Do you realize how important this is?"
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I’ve yet to figure out what attraction TypePad holds. Perhaps it’s seen as a sunk cost, with migration of 15 years worth of material somewhere else just too big to manage.
And the beat goes on .......
It's back up! For how long... who knows...
It was back up but it's not up to date. Doesn't respond to "comments". Mike will have stories to tell when this is over.
Hopefully rather than frettng Mike is playing pool.
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