Flickr user Umpqua has posted photos of a PONG manual. What does this have to do with blogging? Well, we found the link by reading Boing Boing. So, how about tangentially related to blogging? Plus, it was cool and the talk of VHF screws brought back fond memories…

Link via: Boing Boing

Blogware (the backend that powers Blogzerk) has scheduled a maintenance window on 11/12/2005 to conduct a database upgrade on the Blogware Environment. The blogs and the management interfaces will be offline during the maintenance.

Date:  11/12/2005
Start Time:  10:00 PM ET
Duration:  10 Hours

Impact: The Publishers' Control and blogs will not be accessible. Each interface will be made live as soon as
it is available to minimize impact on end users.

More Information: The backend database server software that powers Blogware will be upgraded to the latest version. This upgrade is necessary to fix the few remaining performance issues and allow for future optimizations. Unfortunately, to do this requires shutting down all database services which results in the longer than usual downtime.