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Site Maintenance

by John Cole|  November 1, 20152:59 pm| 96 Comments

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Site will be down at 4pm until who knows when until the new site is migrated.

Front pagers check your email.

Not in the mood for your bullshit today readers so let’s not make this a fucking ordeal.

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  1. 1.

    Roger Moore

    November 1, 2015 at 3:01 pm

    We may not make it a fucking ordeal, but you can bet your ass that we’ll point out all the bugs as soon as we find them. A certain amount of whining about the new layout is also to be expected.

  2. 2.

    raven

    November 1, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    rock on dawg

  3. 3.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2015 at 3:04 pm

    Test

  4. 4.

    dmsilev

    November 1, 2015 at 3:05 pm

    Good luck; looking forward to seeing the update.

  5. 5.

    cokane

    November 1, 2015 at 3:05 pm

    pissburg sucks cole, face it

  6. 6.

    Roger Moore

    November 1, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    We may not make it a fucking ordeal, but you can bet your ass that we’ll point out all the bugs as soon as we find them. A certain amount of whining about the new layout is also to be expected.

  7. 7.

    joel hanes

    November 1, 2015 at 3:07 pm

    Roger, understand no Bravo Sierra.

    Wilco. Out.

  8. 8.

    greennotGreen

    November 1, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    Not in the mood for your bullshit today readers so let’s not make this a fucking ordeal.

    It’s like you’re asking for it. You know we have the maturity of 14 year olds!

  9. 9.

    cokane

    November 1, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    pissburg sucks cole

  10. 10.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 1, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    Grumpy blogger is grumpy.

  11. 11.

    greennotGreen

    November 1, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    Not in the mood for your bullshit today readers so let’s not make this a fucking ordeal.

    It’s like you’re asking for it. You know we have the maturity of 14 year olds!

  12. 12.

    Lee Rudolph

    November 1, 2015 at 3:12 pm

    4 PM EST, or what?

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    November 1, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    We may not make it a fucking ordeal, but you can bet your ass that we’ll point out all the bugs as soon as we find them. A certain amount of whining about the new layout is also to be expected.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 1, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    Looking forward to seeing the changes! Thanks for the heads-up, John.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 1, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    Looking forward to seeing the changes! Thanks for the heads-up, John.

  16. 16.

    Corner Stone

    November 1, 2015 at 3:19 pm

    .
    The wonk has come early to the site maintenance schedule.

  17. 17.

    Germy Shoemangler

    November 1, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    my god it’s full of stars

  18. 18.

    Baud

    November 1, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    So this is the end.

  19. 19.

    Shlemazel

    November 1, 2015 at 3:22 pm

    We all love you to, big guy.

    Hope it goes smoothly for your sa9not ours

  20. 20.

    Suzanne

    November 1, 2015 at 3:24 pm

    Here’s hoping it works out better than the last update, which actually made shit worse.

    It’s a quality blog around here.

    And buy some end tables. I click on the Amazon link every damn time so that you can get new end tables.

  21. 21.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 1, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    @Baud: Baud, I’m scared.

  22. 22.

    Baud

    November 1, 2015 at 3:28 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    {{{{{Bill}}}}}

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    November 1, 2015 at 3:29 pm

    There seems to be a glitch in the matrix.

  24. 24.

    Tommy Young

    November 1, 2015 at 3:29 pm

    @Suzanne: Have faith Suzanne, since I am the person that is about to start doing it, it will be much, much faster and the end result better (fingers crossed). And since I PLAN to be here non-stop the next two days right in front of you if you want to punch me in the gut (I would prefer questions and “good job dude” — but who am I kidding), if there is a bug I’ll fix it on the “fly.” Oh and since I am also an active member, you better believe I want it to work as well, not just because I did it :)!!!!!!!!!

  25. 25.

    MomSense

    November 1, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    @greennotGreen:

    Damn, does this mean that Cole once was in the mood for our bullshit and we missed it?

  26. 26.

    Baud

    November 1, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    Front pagers check your email.

    You’re fired! /Trump

  27. 27.

    Redshift

    November 1, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    As a software professional, let me suggest that reporting bugs can be useful, especially if you make an effort to include enough useful information that someone can actually do something with it. Information about how much it pisses you off isn’t useful to anyone, especially if you’re reporting the problem for the first time.

  28. 28.

    Anoniminous

    November 1, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    Daisy, Daisy. Give me the answer true ….

  29. 29.

    Baud

    November 1, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    @Tommy Young:

    You go, Tommy!

  30. 30.

    dmsilev

    November 1, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA: DAISY, DAISY….

  31. 31.

    Hildebrand

    November 1, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    @Germy Shoemangler: What are you doing, Dave?

  32. 32.

    Suzanne

    November 1, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    @Tommy Young: That actually makes me feel much better.

    GO WITH GOD.

  33. 33.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 1, 2015 at 3:32 pm

    @Tommy Young: (Hands Tommy a fly swatter).

  34. 34.

    TooManyJens

    November 1, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    Commence popping popcorn.

  35. 35.

    Baud

    November 1, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    @Suzanne:

    He’s got a last name now. Things are going to be all right.

  36. 36.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 1, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    I’ll just upgrade my Windows insider machine while this site’s down, new build is out.

  37. 37.

    Baud

    November 1, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    Tommy, do a good job and you’ll head the White House Office of Technology and Innovation in my administration.

  38. 38.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    Well planned and managed as always Cole!

  39. 39.

    Roger Moore

    November 1, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    @Tommy Young:
    Are you the same guy who posted as “Tommy”?

  40. 40.

    Anoniminous

    November 1, 2015 at 3:35 pm

    @Germy Shoemangler:

    I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.

  41. 41.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 1, 2015 at 3:35 pm

    Word to the wise, don’t set the exposure on photographs with your sunglasses on.

  42. 42.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 1, 2015 at 3:36 pm

    So how long will the site be down?

  43. 43.

    Tommy Young

    November 1, 2015 at 3:36 pm

    @Roger Moore: That would be correct.

  44. 44.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    November 1, 2015 at 3:36 pm

    @Roger Moore: Yes, please do try to pay attention, Roger.

  45. 45.

    Tommy Young

    November 1, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    @Baud: I have faith (in myself) or I would not have done this. I know the crowd here can be tough to say the least. I also have pretty thin skin about my work and knew even if we got a team of the best WordPress developers in the world (and I am nothing close, but darn good) together people would bitch. I also knew I could hide and continue to post and not “out” myself, but not really my style. But in the not to distant future we will see if I was right in this thinking :).

  46. 46.

    jeffreyw

    November 1, 2015 at 3:45 pm

    Not only is he a BJ coder, he’s a client, too!

  47. 47.

    srv

    November 1, 2015 at 3:45 pm

    I, for one, salute those who roll changes into prod before Black Friday.

    I keep hearing that Y-Wing “Stay on target… stay on target… [screams]”

  48. 48.

    cat copeland

    November 1, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    WOW!!! Lotsa’ peoples are NOT eating their Snickers! Have a good day. Don’t you love this saying? I think it
    is apropos, no????

  49. 49.

    Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA

    November 1, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    [buckling up]

  50. 50.

    rikyrah

    November 1, 2015 at 3:48 pm

    Thanks for the warning, Cole.

  51. 51.

    Goblue72

    November 1, 2015 at 3:48 pm

    We’re all gonna die, man!

  52. 52.

    rikyrah

    November 1, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    @Tommy Young:
    Crossing the fingers.

  53. 53.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 1, 2015 at 3:50 pm

    @Goblue72: No need to worry Gungadin, Tommy is in charge.

  54. 54.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2015 at 3:50 pm

    We’re doomed.

  55. 55.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 1, 2015 at 3:51 pm

    @redshirt: Says the man wearing the redshirt!

  56. 56.

    Tommy Young

    November 1, 2015 at 3:51 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Thanks I think. Sure hope you are saying that later tonight/early AM.

  57. 57.

    Baud

    November 1, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    Holy cow. What am I going to do tonight?

  58. 58.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 1, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    @Tommy Young: You are welcome, glad you liked my pun
    Tommy = Slang for a British Soldier
    Gungadin = Kipling’s poem about a water carrier called Gungadin.

  59. 59.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 1, 2015 at 3:54 pm

    @Baud: You could hang out on my tinsy winsy blog.

  60. 60.

    Baud

    November 1, 2015 at 3:54 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I was going to ask, but I didn’t want to impose.

  61. 61.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2015 at 3:55 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: I also have a blog, that I can’t post at anymore. Check it out!

  62. 62.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 1, 2015 at 3:55 pm

    The last thread is a mess, there is a comment degeneracy > 1.

  63. 63.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 1, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    @redshirt: Why can’t you post? I have checked out your blog, many times.

    So is redshirt a Trekkie reference or are you Comrade Redshirt?

  64. 64.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    I’m taking odds on the over/under of downtime for this upgrade.

    Betting line starts at 3 hours.

  65. 65.

    mdblanche

    November 1, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    So long and thanks for all the fish.

  66. 66.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Why not both?

  67. 67.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    November 1, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    And so it begins…

  68. 68.

    SFAW

    November 1, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    Are we there yet?

    How about now?

    OK, how about NOW?

  69. 69.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    And. Here. We. Go.

  70. 70.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    November 1, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    I will turn this blog around RIGHT NOW!

  71. 71.

    srv

    November 1, 2015 at 4:01 pm

    Even the head of Citigroup blames Clinton:

    Richard Parsons, speaking two days after ending his 16-year tenure on the board of Citigroup Inc. and a predecessor, said the financial crisis was partly caused by a regulatory change that permitted the company’s creation.

    The 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall law that separated banks from investment banks and insurers made the business more complicated, Parsons said yesterday at a Rockefeller Foundation event in Washington. He served as chairman of Citigroup, the third-biggest U.S. bank by assets, from 2009 until handing off the role to Michael O’Neill at the April 17 annual meeting.

    “To some extent what we saw in the 2007, 2008 crash was the result of the throwing off of Glass-Steagall,” Parsons, 64, said during a question-and-answer session. “Have we gotten our arms around it yet? I don’t think so because the financial-services sector moves so fast.”

    More Clinton!

  72. 72.

    MattF

    November 1, 2015 at 4:01 pm

    @redshirt: Going going gon

  73. 73.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2015 at 4:02 pm

    @MattF: Watch the site be up till 9.

  74. 74.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 1, 2015 at 4:02 pm

    @Baud: You are always welcome, stay and comment.

  75. 75.

    01jack

    November 1, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    Fellas, it’s been good to know ya

  76. 76.

    Baud

    November 1, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    Can we get numbered comments on the mobile site?

  77. 77.

    Central Planning

    November 1, 2015 at 4:07 pm

    4:07. I don’t notice a difference.

  78. 78.

    Central Planning

    November 1, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    @Tommy Young: I clicked your name and got:

    Forbidden

    You don’t have permission to access / on this server.
    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    You’re upgrading the wrong site.

  79. 79.

    Tommy Young

    November 1, 2015 at 4:10 pm

    @redshirt: Not so much ….

    Now just so everybody knows, for a few minutes this site is going to fucking blow up as I switch themes and put it into Maintenance mode (that would be a good signal to sign-off and do something else). But have faith. We’ll be back sooner then you think and then you can beat me blooded but how the font is too large, the fonts are two small. You don’t like that color or this color. Why the heck did you put that there and gosh knows what else.

    Good bye old site …………

  80. 80.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2015 at 4:10 pm

    “Planned” downtime will happen any day now.

  81. 81.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2015 at 4:11 pm

    Woah!

  82. 82.

    srv

    November 1, 2015 at 4:11 pm

    Burn it! Burn it down!

  83. 83.

    srv

    November 1, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    Green is ok, but I prefer cornflower blue.

  84. 84.

    Corner Stone

    November 1, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    Aaaarrrggghhh!! It’s green! Make it stop!!

  85. 85.

    Corner Stone

    November 1, 2015 at 4:13 pm

    NoScript, please save me, your prodigal son!

  86. 86.

    srv

    November 1, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    @Corner Stone: Soon you will all understand you were only in the first circle of hell!

    Muhahaha!

  87. 87.

    Poopyman

    November 1, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    What fresh hell is this????

  88. 88.

    redshirt

    November 1, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    @Corner Stone: Are you still pieing 50% of the posters?

  89. 89.

    Corner Stone

    November 1, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    @srv: Are we in Inception?

  90. 90.

    TaMara (BHF)

    November 1, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    @Tommy Young: You go Tommy. LOVE the site maintenance page. It is clear you are one of us. I’m off to walk the dog. See you on the flip side.

  91. 91.

    Tommy Young

    November 1, 2015 at 4:23 pm

    John delete this post.

  92. 92.

    MobiusKlein

    November 1, 2015 at 9:02 pm

    Gabba gabba

  93. 93.

    Punchy

    November 1, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    Testies testies 1…2…3?

  94. 94.

    Unabogie

    November 1, 2015 at 9:48 pm

    This site is completely borked. It wouldn’t let me post this message, which you can’t even read right now unless you’re stranded here from an alien world without your knowledge, suffering amnesia. Which none of the Juicers here are, since they can’t read this.

  95. 95.

    BruceFromOhio

    November 1, 2015 at 10:23 pm

    I hate to rain on your parade, but we just got our asses kicked!!
    Game over, man!

  96. 96.

    Ryan

    November 2, 2015 at 4:51 am

    Excited about the new site, but dude, you need to lay off your readers.

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