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Amazon is honking me off

If any of you get errors leaving comments on the site: it's because Amazon's web server is sending the following as 'valid XML':

The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.


Please contact the server administrator,
webtech-admin@amazon.com and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.


Because the MT-Amazon plugin doesn't seem to handle this properly as an error, the page doesn't rebuild. Consequently, even though your comment is stored (and will show up the next time I rebuild the site or make an entry, assuming Amazon has its act together) it doesn't show up immediately.

I'll probably revise the way my system works (i.e. hard-code the damn thing) this weekend. Until then, bear with me.

Update: After 16 hours of Amazon Web Services being useless, I've pulled my XML feeds. They'll be back once Amazon gets its act together.

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sorry! I know it's me you mean.
No, you're actually one of three. :)

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