Blogger Buzz explains...

... to some extent:

Here’s what happened: during scheduled maintenance work Wednesday night, we experienced some data corruption that impacted Blogger’s behavior. Since then, bloggers and readers may have experienced a variety of anomalies including intermittent outages, disappearing posts, and arriving at unintended blogs or error pages. A small subset of Blogger users (we estimate 0.16%) may have encountered additional problems specific to their accounts.

I guess I'm in the small subset. I'm sure my blog is unusually large. There are well over 20,000 posts.

The old blog is back.

Yay!!!

I'll move today's posts over there too.

I would leave Blogger right now...

... if I had the time to figure out how to export the blog and start in a new place, such as HostingMatters. But I am too busy today and the technical stuff makes my head swirl. I can't afford the distraction. If this Blogger screw-up makes me miss a day of posting at Althouse, when I have an unbroken 5 1/2 year streak of daily posting, I will hate Blogger with a vicious fury.

hate hate hate hate hate Blogger.....

UPDATE: The old blog is back, and this post is up over there now. I've copied the comments from here, so go there for commenting now.

It's hard to get myself psyched to do full-blown post over here.

It feels so tentative and unreal.

Oh, okay, how about: "As His Agenda Collapses On Capitol Hill, Obama Hopes For Press Conference Hail Mary Today."

Hmmm. Maybe I'll actually watch the press conference today. I got back to Madison Sunday night, but in the weeks before that, living in Ohio, I had no TV. But the truth is, I almost never watch news on TV anymore. I made a point of watching the debates back in the '08 campaign, but I'd gotten tired of the news analysis shows and the Sunday talk things. It's funny, because Obama is a big visual phenomenon — he's the first black President, of course, but it's not just that. He exploits visuals in new ways. Why haven't I been following that?

Well, I've been very distracted, but I'm on my own this week, and maybe I should do things a little differently. Ooh! Watching TV! How edgy!

Ah! The truth is, I'm suffering from double withdrawal. I don't have my blog and I don't have my Meade.

UPDATE: The old blog is back, and this post is up over there now. I've copied the comments from here, so go there for commenting now. I have my blog but I don't have my Meade!

Some day this post will be moved back to Althouse...

... along with all the other posts I write here today. I'm not able to use my main blog and am trying to solve the problem. I don't think the site has been hacked. Even though it's not widespread on Blogger blogs — including this one — it does sometimes happen.

UPDATE: The old blog is back, and this post is up over there now. I've copied the comments from here, so go there for commenting now.