Blogger Websites Showing Some "Service Unavailable Error 503" Messages

Blogger was showing some  "Service Unavailable Error 503" on certain blog pages. Alerts only lasted a few moments.

No status alerts for Blogger.

Gmail status showed the following alert for March 30, 2015 at 11:15 AM ...

We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users. The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages and/or other unexpected behavior. We will provide an update by 3/30/15, 12:15 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.
This is only affecting IMAP connections to Gmail.


Dear National Weather Service: This is Not User Friendly

Message from National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center Sunday, March 8, 2015.

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NOAA OSM *** Experimental ***

NOAA Open Source GIS Community:

The WOC has created a prototype OpenStreetMap service that is available to use for web mapping site development. The OSM service provides a WMS service endpoint that contains street, city names, water bodies, political boundaries, and many other layers for North America. The service is available publicly and can be used as a background map alternative to Google Maps in developing sites with OpenLayers or other popular web mapping APIs.

Keep in mind that it is not operationally supported at the moment, however it is fully-scaled and geographically redundant for optimal performance, and can be used for development purposes or for non-critical public sites (with any appropriate disclaimers) while it is under review by the WOC to provide as an operational service.

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NWS SPC seems to be generating Twitter announcements normally ...