Blogger Outage, Blogger.com and Blogspot blogs go offline

Here is a short write up of what I saw this morning as I tried in vain to post...

9:45 am - Blogspot blogs and Blogger.com seem to be returning a 502 Error Page with Google's page headers.
10:00 am - still offline
10:13 am - I go to tim hortons to get a coffee.
10:26 am - Back from Tims, the Spectator had a headline on Brian Melo from Hamilton. I guess he is doing very well for himself in the Canadian Idol competition. As a resident of Steeltown, I have to say that I am quite proud of Brian Melo's achievements on the show so far and I wish him the best of luck in the last push towards becoming the Canadian Idol.
10:35 am - Bored, need to post to Blogger.... Discovered that Sitemeter thinks my last visiter was at 9AM... Adsense stats are behind and show NO impressions for today... That's wrong :D

10:36 am - Decide I'm going to play some games while waiting for blogger to come back up. This blogger outage is getting on my nerves and I wish I had hosted my blog elsewhere... Maybe Wordpress can handle a migration from Blogger... hummmm

10:38 am - Discovered a new Doodlebops Presale Password for their upcoming show at MSG... Can't update the listing with the new presale password (BLDOODLE3) so I paste it into my Notepad window.

10:40 am - Discovered a new Queens Of The Stone Age Presale Password... Blogger is still down... DAMN

10:42 am - Something new with the blogger outage, It looks like things are coming back, the blogger home page loads and brings up an error screen.

10:43 am - DAMN - At least someone has finally put up a decent looking error page to hide this .. outage. Google is reporting that the outage is affecting blogger and blogspot blogs:


Blogger and Blog*Spot are unavailable

Blogger and Blog*Spot are unavailable right now. We apologize for this interruption in service.
Details

Blogger is undergoing brief maintenance and will return in a few minutes.

11:02 am - Finally back online (for now?)