Reading a dozen posts from musicians (most of them, alas, eulogies for tnatj), followed by a link to a BBC story about a British probe that would "fire instruments into the lunar surface"...

So I'm reading this link about how the outage at LiveJournal and other Six Apart sites the other day happened -- basically, an antispam company called Blue Security was hit with a denial-of-service attack, and redirected their domain name to their Six Apart blog; there seems to be some question of whether they were actually trying to redirect the attack to somebody else's server, or whether they thought the attack was finished and were just redirecting traffic to a server that wasn't hosed so they could get the word out.

(  And then I read the comments... )

starcat_jewel, I'd be very interested in hearing Russ' take on this...

...or has LiveJournal gotten very... sporadic... tonight?

UPDATE: From status:

Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack. This has affected all of Six Apart's sites, causing intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com. Our network operations staff is working around the clock with our Internet access providers to resolve the issue. We appreciate your patience and support, and will provide updates as we have them.

"Current location"?

1. Click on "Friends."

2. Read through the entries.

3. Look at a friends-locked post and decide you want to read the comments.

4. Click on "Link."

5. What do you mean, "Access Forbidden"?

6. Grumble.

7. Select "My LJ" from bookmarks.

8. Log in again.

9. Grumble again.