OK, as a public service to Blogdom, I’ve set up my Blogspot traffic signal. It’s a script that runs in background on my server, and attempts an http access of blogspot.com once a minute. If it’s successful, it gives the green signal. If not, you’ll get the red traffic signal. (Note: I only run it on the main index page, so if you came here via a link to the specific post, you won’t see it).

Next, I’m going to put the Mark of Blogspot on the blogspotties, so you’ll know which links to not bother with when it’s down.

Let me know if it works. It seems to be doing OK, so far. Blogspot’s been down for while, and it just came back up, and the script seemed to pick it up.