From servicealerts.blog.ryerson.ca:

Ryerson’s Blog system, blog.ryerson.ca experienced a system outage today, Monday October 17, 2016

The issue started about 11:45 AM  with intermittent errors and was fixed at about 1:55 PM.

We are continuing to investigate the problem.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

-Computing and Communications Services