Lots of broken parts of the internet today!

Blogger is broken right now; it can't upload to our server. They've at least acknowledged the problem, but who knows when this post will appear.

Paypal, on the other hand, is having some problems that they're not acknowledging - their history download is very broken right now. We use this to populate a Filemaker database we use for sending out the Tshirts and Cds. Not only is it taking a really, really long time (20+ hours to process) when it usually takes 10-15 minutes, but the last download we got was missing all sorts of data. The problem seems to have started yesterday morning; it affected all our shirt orders since 2-Nov.

The data isn't lost, but if we have to go in through the web interface and copy everything into the Filemaker database that will be a real pain.

Yeh, yeh, yeh I know we should be using Instant Payment Notification and not the batch download history - but apparently the Paypal IPN was even broken in the last few days. Paypal has a blog about system status, but it seems to not cover everything.