During TypePad's latest outage

... which lasted most of today, I learned the following things:

1) The kindest thing I can say about TypePad right now is that, when a popular weblog company has growing pains, everybody feels them. That's all. If I say more, I'll start swearing wildly. Which would be wrong. Yes, wrong. Because in reality, I have bigger problems that aren't really TypePad's fault ...

2) I'm addicted to blogging. There's no more denying. No two ways around it. And not the cute, cuddly kind of addiction, either, like to chocolate. Not even the semi-bothersome addiction, like to caffeine. No, as 'mouse said, it's the bad kind.

3) I'm not alone in my disease. According to my brother, my mom checked her blog hourly, all day long. He advised her to check every five minutes, that it might help TypePad recover. She said she already tried that.

Blog addiction is obviously heriditary.

More proof I'm not alone: Jo Spanglemonkey cooked up a temporary blog, just for the occasion, and invited many people to join and comment. It was like a party, with TypePad as the pinata ...

Which was very cool, except I don't have access to my Yahoo e-mail from work, and I couldn't accept the invitation. And I had to stand outside, in the cold, sh-sh-shivering, watching other people blog ... because I resolved not to e-mail Jo and ask for help today. I toughed it out. Went cold turkey all day.

Except for the stuff I wrote on Scrine. A whole day without interacting with y'all? Chah! As if! Kindly refer back to item 2!

Comments

[gj]

Sometimes my last few days come up. Sometimes they don't. My pictures are gone but there is a reassuring note that they will replace them over the weekend. Can we start a class action suit?

Your mother

[pops]

It's been an odd day.

I was one of the first 300-some TypePad beta testers. This morning one of our alums from that time threw the towel.

[pam]

Mom: It's like playing virtual baseball with their pixellated bat and ball. What did you really lose?

Pops: (Boy was that a weird pair of names to type in one comment)
You left TP yourself. Was it because of the outages?

[Jo]

I wonder if it is an addiction, though, when it is an addiction to human contact. Maybe it can be seen as a symptom of widespread cultural isolation.

[Wende]

:) There is another word for being addicted to human contact. Heh.

[pam]

??? I can't think of another word!