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TechCrunch has a guest post by Jon Bach, who apparently travels on his own straight-talk express: "Microsoft has created a real mess in the industry with Windows Vista. On its release in January 2007, most major manufacturers dropped Windows XP from their products, only to add it back months later at the demand of their customers."

We had a server snafu earlier this morning, which kiboshed our Neighborhood News roundup. Here's a summary version: that student who was shot to death while wearing a Nazi uniform was a UW German Studies major, even in this real estate market, someone still wants to kick the B&O out in favor of a 75-unit apartment complex, and Cliff Mass says probably no snow today, but watch out for tomorrow. Has your Zune started working again? Meanwhile, most of our secondary pages are still offline, and we're still experiencing some "server optimization" issues with commenting login times. If you have particular difficulties with anything, shoot us an email at tips (at) seattlest dot com. And Happy 2009!

There's something fuxx0red with teh upgrade, and our commenting and recommending devices aren't working precisely as planned. Or, you know, at all. The IT gnomes are working on it with their tiny little hammers. Such a din they're making! But it's a break from the sound of Jack being sick into his Santa hat and Kim giving musical numbers an indie-folk interpretation. Plus there's Kahlua all over our keyboard for some reason. Sigh. Around the holidays Seattlest HQ always feels a little smaller than usual. UPDATE: Ah, the hammering has stopped. They tell us it's okay to start commenting and recommending again. Let us know if not. Just not in the comments, obviously.

If you're reading this, we have the ability to post. You don't have the ability to comment...yet. Hang in there. Once the backend shenanigans are finished, there's a new "look" for Seattlest that's going to come online as well. Along with some other holiday goodies. For one thing, if we're reading the instructions correctly--lessee, flange A goes to socket B---you'll be able to type link URLs into comments and we'll convert 'em to live hyperlinks on the fly. Is that cutting edge of 2003 or what! Anyway, it's very exciting, so stay right there on the edge of your seat.

Dear readers: There comes a time in every blog's life when no matter how good things have been going--and they have been good--when you see an upgrade and you get to thinking... Well, it's an old, old story. The long and short of it is, we're going to be taking a little time off from you this weekend. We hope--we swear this is true--that it's just for a few hours, just until we get our database straight. But you know how it goes. Sometimes...things come up. Maybe you'll be there when we come out the other side. We hope you will be. We have pictures of slushy streets to share. Oh, they're really slushy. Just how you like.