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Last updated on March 6th, 2018 at 12:31 am
Sorry, folks—the site was down from 8:47PM to 2:57AM EST due to the backbone going down; there was an ice storm in Atlanta and a fiber was cut. This took out the hosting service that provides webspace for this blog as well as all my other blogs. (Some other ISPs were down too.) Anyway, things are back up and running now.
I have an emergency blog on Blogger for problems such as these. Whenever they crop up I try to post an announcement. Keep this bookmarked until I find my Admin had and put it in the FAQ or something: http://emergencyspleenville.blogspot.com/.
I’ll be turning this post off later today.
UPDATE. Portrait of an outage:
It’s like being Antony Loewenstein for a few hours.
- Ice storms in Atlanta can only have been caused by Gerbil worming.Posted by Rob Read on 2007 02 02 at 07:33 AM • permalink
- Shithouse.
Ice storm in Atlanta.
I guess Al Gore was visiting there.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 02 02 at 07:36 AM • permalink
- Quck start your SUV’s before hordes of randy polar bears start frotting on the streets and scaring old ladies.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 02 02 at 07:47 AM • permalink
8:47PM to 2:57AM EST
That’s not Australian Eastern Standard time is it? HMMMM???
I’m sure Tim loved the gazillions of emails he received. Right up there with “Excuse me Sir? Your hair is on fire”.
All the usual RWDB blogs weren’t informed, emergency site duly bookmarked.
I blame Al Gore, for both Global Worming as well as the Information Superhighway.
- Dan Lewis: the website is stored in a server in Florida, so it’s not on Australian time. (I checked the World Clock site and it was afternoon over there when this was happening so I figured people were frantic.)Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 02 02 at 07:51 AM • permalink
- This is clear the work of that 31337 Hax0r d00d that Murph pissed off earlier.
Andrea, Google’s pretty good at time conversions as well. Search for e.g. “Time in Sydney”. It even does currency, so “0.5AUD in USD” will let you calculate how much your bolding costs.
- I thought that the whole point of the internet was that it was going to make communication resources resistant to failures at one or even several points – the system would just route around the damage. I would suggest that if an ‘Australian’ website goes down because of ice in Atlanta then the chances of the system surviving a Russian nuclear strike were never that good. Al Gore needs to go back to the drawing board.
- Thought IPCC had closed you down. The CSIRO scientist there has demanded no more debate, saying it is unequivically very likely that climate change is man-made. Then she went back to her hotel to pack for her flight back to Australia. She has created more greenhouse gases in a week than I create in a year (farting not included but then she was eating all that rich French food).
- Just watched Skynews – it’s irrefutable evidence that humans are causing global warming/whatever, now that the esteemed UN report is out
Debate closed
Now it’s time to be green taxed out of existence
How depressing – first the cricket then this
Now the footy season is almost here in OZ do we talk about footy too here?
As the Rugby Super14s has already started…
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 02 02 at 08:38 AM • permalink
- I know when I’m tired – I’ve been looking at this post’s heading and reading “outrage” instead of outage
Yes I was just positively seething when I came home for a break from work and found Tim to be inaccessible! An outrage indeed
#16 paco
Thanks for that link – good news definitely
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2007 02 02 at 09:33 AM • permalink
- #17: I was outraged, too! No access at all to this blog last night. For all I know, Andy Canuck was attempting to take Paco-Canada public, Wronwright had perished in a last-ditch battle to stop the Goremacht in Ohio, and Antony Lowenstein and Margo were married in a quiet, civil ceremony attended by a few friends and homeless people looking for a free meal.
- I was afeared that Murph’s Nemesis, the Dick from Hax0r Inc. had struck with a concentrated beam of Kryptonite.
Merely a Glowball Warmening Ice Age attack. Yawn.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 02 02 at 10:12 AM • permalink
- I guess we’re all doomed, folks, thanks to global goreming. The UN sez so.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 02 02 at 10:26 AM • permalink
- See that dip in blog visits? Bush did that.Posted by wronwright on 2007 02 02 at 12:09 PM • permalink
- I just assumed you’d been hacked by sand goblins, Tim. But then I’m one of those awful racists you’re always hearing about.Posted by Daniel San on 2007 02 02 at 12:20 PM • permalink
- Well, we had a little ice east of Atlanta, but not enough to keep the “little cruller” from having to go to school.Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 02 02 at 03:41 PM • permalink
It’s like being Antony Loewenstein for a few hours.
Now that’s cold, Andrea.I love it! ;-p
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 02 02 at 05:19 PM • permalink
- There couldn’t have been an ice storm in Atlanta because of all that Goebbel Warming.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 02 02 at 06:41 PM • permalink
- I’d like to take credit for that line but it’s Tim’s, he added that (and the chart) later.
Well by popular demand I’ll leave the post up unless Tim says no.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 02 02 at 07:54 PM • permalink
- And hm, no ice storm? Well, I’m back to my idiot-digging-in-the-backyard theory.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 02 02 at 07:58 PM • permalink
- No, No, NO!!
Remember that according to the Holy Words of the Watermelon Church of the Luddite-Moonbats, gerbil worming and glowball cooling are all PART of climate changificerisation.
So the same thing that is drowning all the polar bears is also causing ice storms in Atlanta, haze in Beijing, and gay penguins to tapdance in the west Antarctic ice sheet to music crafted by left handed negro lesbian redheads who work for the WWF.
So it WAS all George Bush’s fault!
MarkL
Canberra
- Be honest. Tim was drinking in his pajamas, got totally blitzed, tripped over a power cord, cracked his head and didn’t wake up for a few hours?Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 02 02 at 10:38 PM • permalink
- I was half suspecting the Marieke Hardy fanclub. After all, they created a whole new blog in her/our honour. But it seems that they weren’t as lowly and vindictive as they could have been.Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 02 03 at 08:21 AM • permalink
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