AOL Journals: Magic Smoke

Tuesday, August 23, 2005
5:29:00 PM EDT
Hearing Steely Dan, The Boston Rag Hi folks -- just got word from the tech folks about a quick (30 minute) outage planned for tomorrow, Wednesday 8/24, starting at 4AM EDT and going until 4:30 AM.  During this time, you won't be able to access your Journals, instead getting the blue "Journals Are Unavailable" screen.

The tech folks will be taking down the database connections so they can tweak the memory sizing and realign the warp core. (Okay, not that last part.) This has to be done to make sure that the Journals Search picks up all the new entries and blogs. Thanks -- Joe


Written by journalseditor Blog about this entry |  Add to del.icio.us |  digg this

This entry has 5 comments: (Add your own)

• #5 Comment from butterfly10403 
  8/24/05 7:28 PM | Permalink

  thanks for the heads up, but i wouldnt have happened upon the warning i fi hadnt been in my journal.  It would be nice if you'd email us this info.  Thanks again,
  butterfly10403@aol.com
• #4 Comment from mavarin 
  8/23/05 9:25 PM | Permalink

  Your 4AM EDT is 1 AM MST for me, at which time I'm often still editing that night's entry.  Guess I'll have to get it done sooner.  Thanks for the head's up!  (And tell them to be careful around that warp core.  Those things breach very easily!  We wouldn't want AOL's servers to be thrown into an alternate universe or something!) - Karen
• #3 Comment from fisherkristina 
  8/23/05 7:54 PM | Permalink

  Thanks for letting us know Joe.
  
  Krissy
  http://journals.aol.com/fisherkristina/SometimesIThink
• #2 Comment from heartcall 
  8/23/05 7:17 PM | Permalink

  It is nice this is being done in the wee hours of the morning :-).
• #1 Comment from gaboatman 
  8/23/05 5:34 PM | Permalink

  Realign the warp core?  Methinks Journals Editor Joe has seen one too many Star Trek epsodes, but I really dug you throwing that in there!  Thanks for the warning on tomorrow' outage and thank goodness it's only going to be for a half hour.  I'm a mornin person myself, LOL!  Sorry I missed you at the AOL Journals Celebration.  I'll try and not miss the next one.
  Sam