Google's Blogger Staff Beats and Humiliates Bad Router

Posted on March 20, 2006

Google's Blogger service has beaten a bad router as an example and a warning to other potentially malfunctioning hardware. They also wrote this limerick about the bad router.

There once was a router so crappy
That it made all the Bloggers unhappy
It caused pagers to be beep
And kept us from sleep
So we smashed it on the ground with golf clubs and threw paving stones
at it and kicked it and someone filmed part of it but that's
not up yet and then we dropped it off a dumpster and kicked it again
and gathered up the parts and sent them to be recycled quite snappy

Michelle Malkin writes that some Blogger blogs are still having trouble because of an overactive filter. Blogger's status blog says some blogs have been stuck in the filter lately and that they are still working on the problem.

A clarification about the filer we restored yesterday: This machine is indeed up and functioning again, so the affected blogs are no longer entirely inaccessible. However, it is still not in great shape and we are in the process of moving all the data off of it and on to better machines. So over the next few days there may still be lingering and intermittent problems for some blogs. This includes the "forbidden" errors we're all getting tired of, as well as occasional publishing errors, or incompletely published pages.