April 17, 2004

• I was going to post something last night, and I was all jazzed about it. I opened up my web browser and went to my Xanga site and clicked on the 'New Entry' link, and started writing.

  I wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote. I wrote a bunch. I did a little bit of research. I added stuff, I subtracted stuff. I thought about it some more, and then some more. And then I wrote some more.

  And I clicked on 'Submit,' and Xanga told me it was shut down for maintenance. Not emergency maintenance, just maintenance.

  And then I got pissed. I hit the back button on my browser and found all the work I had done, and copied it to a text editor so it wouldn't be utterly wasted. And then I tried to figure out why Xanga would shut down on a Friday night for maintenance.

  Now, I've put up with this crap from Xanga for a long time, because I feel kind of connected to some of the people here. But this place is simply mismanaged. That's all there is to it.

  Anyone with their shit together knows that you don't bring the system down for 'maintenance' unannounced. You simply don't. I'm subscribed to TheXangaTeam. There's NO MENTION of maintenance being scheduled. And if the maintenance is unscheduled, you EXPLAIN IT AFTERWARDS. Again, no explanation. Just a mysterious outage that lasted all night, when I was in the mood to write. To write and generate words that generate ad revenue for... Xanga.

  So, in case you Xanga-d00ds don't get it:
  

  ANNOUNCE MAINTENANCE AHEAD OF TIME

  Quit giving off the impression that you're collectively incapable of managing your own IT department.

  I guess I'll have to install MoveableType at mile23.com.

  • 9:41 pm
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