A number of folks noticed that something screwy happened with the Unwanted and APR blogs last night, intermittent failures to establish a  database connection. Tech support was not particularly helpful (in fact,”I dunno” about sums it up). Might’ve been some sort of bot attack… something repeatedly downloading something or other and clogging up the works. Well, it *seems* to be back up and running now. We’ll see, I suppose.

But at the same time my pitiful little blog was going goofy, there were problems elsewhere:

Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s Time to Panic

Have you noticed anything odd going on this morning? Oh yes. Let us be the first to tell you that the time to panic is upon us.

ITEM: The New York City subway system suffered an atrocious commute today, with some trains being inexplicably stranded in stations for long periods of time.

ITEM: The website “The Dissolve” folded today.

ITEM: United Airlines was forced to ground all of its flights after its computer system mysteriously stopped working.

ITEM: The New York Stock Exchange suspended trading today after its computerized trading system mysteriously stopped working.

ITEM: Immediately after, the Wall Street Journal’s website mysteriously stopped working.

ITEM: More than 2,500 people in Washington, DC mysteriously lost power.

Hmmm. I choose to believe that it is the result of Plutonian hackers messing with us in rev3enge for taking pictures of them.