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This morning (Nov. 29), around 4AM EST, we’ll be doing a little server-database jump that will result in ten or fifteen minutes of site inactivity. We should be up and running again shortly thereafter.

You may notice some additional hiccups between then and 7AM EST; after that everything should be a-okay. If you have any questions or comments, please post them here as comments or (if the site is up, obviously) in the Forums.

If there are any changes to this schedule, you’ll be notified about them here.

There are potential implications for the news business here too:

LOS ANGELES - For five years, John Langley tried and failed to sell a cinema verite-style TV series tracking police officers on patrol. Then came the 1988 Hollywood writers strike.

 ”That’s when Fox bought `Cops,’ because a series with no narrator, no host, no script, no re-enactments sounded very good to them at the time,” recalled Langley, who just marked the show’s 700th episode.

Source: news.yahoo.com

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