I received the following question today from Rustin over at The Blog Frog, a cool community service for mommy bloggers:

Like MBL, we use external javascript that is referenced from the blog. If our site ever goes down, even for 2 minutes, browsers try to load the javascript and pause for 30 seconds. Publishers then get upset that we are blocking their blog and take us off. How did you get around this with MBL? How did you display real-time data (when user visits their picture immediately shows up), but decouple from the database (which I assume was necessary)?

Since we have been asked this question more times than I can count, I figured it was time to post a quick response on the blog so anyone who is interested could benefit…