It seems like the barbarians are at the gate lately…in the same week, my wiki and blog go down. The wiki was a relatively simple fix, although it did take time. My blog’s issue was completely out of my control. It was my hosting company’s fault. According to the email the tech sent me, it really is barbarians. Someone launched a DoS attack against the server my site is on, and they had been battling it for a week or two…that’s why it was down intermittently lately and why it went down completely this week.

For those not in the know, a denial of service attack is not really a hack…it simulates the effect of a bunch of computers accessing the same page over and over, blowing through the server’s bandwidth.

I’m rather suspicious, but am writing it off as idle paranoia.

I’m at the Starbucks on Alhambra, waiting out a rainstorm. This place is open until one, so fuck the rain. I’m also hoping to meet a cool guy I met recently, but he hasn’t responded to my aim messages yet. I simply must get waterproof pants and a waterproof jacket. I HATE riding in the rain though…all the cars sliding around everywhere…it makes me hella nervous.

Especially because it was pouring when I had my first car accident.