Some early adopters of ArcGIS 10.2.1 are reporting some problems.  If you can wait, I would stick with 10.2 until a service pack is released for 10.2.1.  Here are some comments that I have read in emails:

Sarasota County – Install the full release in a development environment first. Sarasota County GIS experienced difficulties with License Manager (port related), Web Adaptor (must remove existing arcgis site if you want to update it as arcgis again), Server (system and utilities tools have display touchy behavior changes if you want them hosted on say your GpCluster server(s). We are still working to move certain server tools such as Printing off of our mapCluster.

Merced County – Read the version notes and see if anything helps. If you don’t see a benefit then don’t upgrade. I am testing it on a my machine but I’ve already had issues with Model Builder Models acting differently. The geoprocessing tool works differently and will need to be upgraded in each of your models. I for one will not be updating server to 10.2.1 after hearing the news from Florida. I already did not plan on upgrading because this .1 release does not improve anything for my organization.

If you have installed 10.2.1, please add a comment so we all can learn from you!

January 17 will be the 20th anniversary of the Northridge earthquake in 1994 that killed more than 60 people, collapsed freeways and apartments, and remade the streetscape in several parts of town (and on the campus at UCLA.)  Click the map for more info on the LA Observed blog.

Thanks goes to Kayla Folkins from the City of Pasadena for finding this one.

ESRI has released a new version of ArcGIS API for JavaScript. Some new features include:

• Better support for new renderer types throughout the API
• New esri/geometry/Circle module to easily create circles
• Popup enhancements
• Enhancements to better support graphics that use text symbols
• And much more

Check out the ESRI blog posting for more info.

Here is a list of government websites that are completely offline or “dark” as of last night:

• USGS.gov
• Bureau of Economic Analysis (bea.gov)
• Business.gov
• Census.gov
• Copyright.gov
• Data.gov
• Disability.gov
• ERIC (eric.ed.gov)
• FCC.gov
• FTC.gov
• FTC.gov
• Library of Congress (loc.gov)
• NASA.gov
• National Park Service (nps.gov)
• NIMH.gov
• NIST.gov
• NOAA.gov is offline but you can still get to weather.gov NSF.gov Nutrition.gov USDA (usda.gov)

I find this list of websites interesting.  Servers will run without human help for a while!  Must be the electric bills? 👿