This blog is published using a free blogging tool, Blogger, provided by the good folks at Google.
The application is free; offered as part of the wonderous business model that characterizes many web applications. as such, there are limits to how demanding I can be as a user.
Unfortunately, Blogger has been experiencing growing pains recently. With Google acquiring various adjacent blogging tools, it has been trying to integrate the platforms for the various applications.
It seems that each time they touch one part of Blogger, another piece breaks. some of the analytics were out of service last week. A scheduled outage last night seems to have broken the ability to upload new posts today – which is why you may have thought that I took the day off. A lot of bloggers were in the same boat. The trouble seems to have cleared around 2:10pm today.
What was most frustrating was the inability to find anyone at Blogger to acknowledge that they were even aware of the problem!
Free applications sometimes are surprising in their ability to get the job done. Other times, it becomes clear that you get what you pay for.
That’s why there’s WordPress. 😉