By Pepper Parr
April 3, 2014
BURLINGTON, ON.
Well that wasn’t very nice.
We did an upgrade to some of the plug-ins we use to make this a manageable web site – and the plug-ins plugged everything up.
We were working on the upgrades until the wee hours this morning – published several stories and then called it a day believing that our early morning readers would see their newspaper at the end of their keyboard the way they do each day.
It was late – I was tired so I left the testing to right after that first cup of coffee.
WOW! – what a surprise. Zippo, nada, nothing other than a message:
Apache Server at www.burlingtongazette.ca Port 80 message.
Phone calls to the support team, calls to the people who keep the tubes to the internet operating hour after hour – what’s going on?
It took the first half of the day to figure out where the problem was and then the rest of the day to fix it. So much for the plans I had in place to lunch with my top columnist Ray Rivers and his wife who was in town.
There are a clutch of news stories that will now get loaded. Nothing much happened in town except that there is to be a photo op on Friday. Mayor and some staff are going to fill some pot holes. And oh yet – the pot hole application is now fully functional – so you can report every pot hole you find to someone at city hall – they will acknowledge the report, place the pot hole on a map so you can see that city hall is on the job – and then you can see when they have fixed the pot hole.
Who ever said the city wasn’t putting your tax dollars to good use.
Background links:
Pothole widget on city web site.
I actually felt a bit lost with out the Gazette providing me some much needed “what’s going on in Burlington” news.
Thankfully it was just a glitch and not a “gone forever” situation.
I was away all day and when I turned on the computer there was nothing from the Gazette, what a shock. I too depend on the Gazette for a Burlington update and find it very informative and the interaction most useful for the most part. I had sent some replies to Cynthia and Tony re income inequality then and now and nada. Hopefully they will make it through tomorrow or so.