Twelve Black Code Monkeys

Ok, I think I figured out the problem with the site. It wasn’t Blog City as I previously thought, but rather the Google Adsense ads I have on my pages. I’ve tried going to other sites that have them and things are seriously sluggish. I can’t even get to the Google Adsense site, so something’s definitely up. If anyone reading this has been having no issues with the ads on their site, let me know – maybe it’s an issue with my local network… So I’ve removed the ads for now and will try again later. I’m sure everyone’s really upset that they won’t get to see ads on the site for a while!

Update: well, it seems I can’t get to Google at all now. I wonder if this is a local problem or if Google is actually down. I don’t see anything on Yahoo or other news sites about this. Hmmm, is it just me? Surely this would be front-page news as Google has become an institution of sorts!

Update again: It looks like Google is back up, at least for the moment and for me.

I decided to do a bit of site maintenance today for a change. I removed some dead links, added a subheading to the title at the top of the page, and mostly just updated the “About Me” page. In addition to a reworked bio, there’s also info about the blog itself, how it came to be, what I’m trying to do with it, and stuff like that.

On another note, Blog City, my blog host, has been having some technical issues today, so I apologize if you are trying to read this on the actual site and things are really slow or buggy. Hopefully they will get everything resolved soon.