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July 10, 2011

What is wrong with the General Assembly's servers?

I haven't been able to load a page for three days.

UPDATE: They're working again.

UPDATE: Mike Busch spokeswoman Alex Hughes says: "The servers, email and phone system were down from Friday at 5pm until last night for upgrades and repairs. There was a notice up on the MGA website at the end of last week, prior to the servers being taken down."

Posted by Jay Hancock at 3:14 PM | | Comments (4)
        

Comments

Seriously? You're blogging your questions, instead of finding answers for your readers? How hard could it have been for you to pick up your cell phone, scroll through your contacts, and find the cell phone number for someone in the legislature who might be able to answer your question? Then maybe, just maybe, you could have reported some news to us (your faithful readers) instead of looking like you know just as little as the rest of us. I know it's a Sunday afternoon, but you're taking the concept of "phoning it in" to a whole new level.

I hope it's a major upgrade, that site hasn't changed in forever, possibly since it first existed.

I have been a regular browser of the Sun blogs - reading when a headline catches my interest. I'm not quite sure when this trend started, but I want to say that it was when Sam Sessa gave up his post to Mr. Mazza on the Midnight Sun blog. What trend? The one where everyone has become a critic. A critic on what? Well, just about anything one can nitpick about. While I can understand some of it some of the time, it seems like people are just lurking about waiting for the opportunity. Quickly I've come to realize it's not just here on the Sun blogs - it's done gone viral. It's happening on just about every blog, editorial and news outlet. Anywhere commenting is allowed. I find it funny. While the comments are sometimes valid, I find the whole trend funny. Funny that these very seemingly wise souls find so much self-satisfaction - self-validation - from giving the writer a "gotcha!!", and splaying the writers misdeed out in public for all to see. Bravo Mr. & Ms. Gotchas!

Perhaps Mr. Hancock was leading us to some sort of intriguing mystery with this headline - perhaps his own sort of Gotcha! Or, maybe he was really just posting a frustration and thought someone had an answer??

Please proceed to "nitpick" my comment...or not.

Sometimes you get a straighter (and faster) answer from the "hive mind" than you do from a political hack at the other end of the phone line.

If Jay did call someone from his modern-day Rolodex and regurgitate their response, "disappointed reader" would probably carp about contradictory widely-known facts that were not reported -- you know, the kind of stuff one could find out by asking the unwashed public.

So what WAS the malfunction, anyway?

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About Jay Hancock
Jay Hancock has been a financial columnist for The Baltimore Sun since 2001. He has also been The Baltimore Sun's diplomatic correspondent in Washington and its chief economics writer. Before moving to Baltimore in 1994 he worked for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and The Daily Press of Newport News.

His columns appear Tuesdays and Sundays.
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