Not philosophical trouble or political issues, but technical troubles. While out today, I got an email from a reader saying he couldn’t get in… instead was presented with a captcha thing that didn’t work. So I checked on my phone, which normally pulls up the blog just fine… and got a “can’t connect to server” on both the blog and up-ship.com in general. At the same time, I was getting notifications that comments were being posted, so clearly *other* people were getting in just fine. When I arrived home, the blog pulled up just fine on my netbook, and now it works fine on the phone. So… what the frak. Anybody else see something like this?
It has been more than a year since the last major blog fiasco. I suppose it’s about time, so if sometime in the near future the thing collapses again… well, you’ve been warned.
By the way: my security software keep telling me about such-and-such ISP that has been blocked because of attempts to log in to the blog dashboard. The ISP is in Ukraine, and I have the funny feeling that no good is intended.
UPDATE: just got an email that someone in Ottawa, Canada, couldn’t access either the blog or the root website, getting instead an “ERR_CONNECTION_RESET” message.