Gremlins update

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.

Unidentified gremlins hit Blogger

Readers of Salut! and, come to that, a million other blogs may be experiencing problems.

blogging fog
Picture: nj dodge.

Bloggers - that is to say, people with blogs on Blogspot - are repeatedly getting "error" messages when they try to view their sites, look at comments or make changes.

No one at Blogger seems to have responded in any meaningful way so far, so I have no idea how long this will persist.

If anyone reading Salut! has been trying to post comments and simply cannot connect, please feel free to send them to me at colinrandall2001@yahoo.fr, specifying how you want to be identified (name, nickname, initials, anon etc and where you want the comment to appear.

As soon as I am able, I will then post the comment on your behalf.