Scienceblogs has been down for at least the last ten minutes. The perpetrator? Our own damn selves. Apparently there was some sort of exploit that was attacking the server, and our tech support staff wasn’t being especially helpful, so the bloggers took it upon themselves to hack a “solution.” The result is that we brought the whole thing screeching to a halt.

So our hack didn’t actually solve the problem, and it also created a new one. The site appears to be back up now as I write this, but I don’t know how long that will last. It’s sad but probably inevitable that social software such as blogging systems can then also fall victim to the ills of society.

Also, speaking of technical ineptness, I’ve upgraded the software running this blog. Everything seems to be working okay, except that one post doesn’t correctly indicate that it has comments. I’m probably going to be putting up a bunch of test comments to see if I can get to the bottom of the problem.