I’ve been alerted by Apple that all .Mac services except email will be down on Wednesday as .Mac is transitioned to MobileMe. Therefore, This Lamp, which is housed on .Mac server space, will be unavailable from 3 PM to 9 PM EST (6 PM to midnight PST).

I’m not too thrilled about .Me instead of .Mac by the way. Apple says that both will still work, so I’m not changing my email or web address just yet, but I have to wonder if two or three years down the road they might announce that all mac.com addresses will be no more.

I’ve thought about moving This Lamp to its own dedicated server space with a real thislamp.com address (right now, it only forwards to what you see in your URL line above), but that would also entail a lot of resetting internal links, so right now, I’m undecided.

Regardless, if you drop by on Wednesday and don’t find This Lamp, don’t panic, it should be back within a few hours.

Tags: Apple