Google was down

Well, I have actually had two sorts of difficulties trying to post to the blog so far. The first problem is one that is persistent, and won't go away. The problem is that all blogs (personal sites) are blocked by the firewall at the school that I work for. This means that I can't post anything during the day, sadly. It would be handy, because that would provide for a little break in the day. It would at least be a change from grading papers.

The second problem I had was that Google's server was down on Saturday for a period of time. It had completed a post, and blogspot ate it. I don't know what the deal was, but that was kind of a sad thing.

However, the one thing for me to consider is that for me, as a teacher, the fact of firewalls means that there are certain things that a school librarian (and perhaps a librarian for youth even in a public library) shouldn't put on a blog exclusively. If the purpose of the blog is to serve students and teachers in a K-12 setting, and if those people do not have continuous access to a blog, it wouldn't make sense to post things to a blog to serve them.

Having said that, it might still help them after hours or when they are in a public library.

Also, since I've been the one to set up a school's firewall (not this school, but a different one), I understand why the blogs are blocked, and I don't have a problem with them being blocked. In fact, I'm rather happy they are. However, for this particular project it does make things a little more interesting. Oh well.

Oh, and hopefully this one will go through.