The Scotto Grotto (org)

Extra long work day today… pesky Pablo didn’t get a 5-hour print job to me until 4:30. He’s fortunate I was still sticking around… I don’t see Kev or Island boy staying late for that trivial a task.

Hot shower, mighty and strong. I love to get times when nobody’s used any hot water in the complex for like 7 hours. Scaldy-good! I can feel layers of my tough, rhino-like exterior dropping off, leaving only the soft pink baby skin. Perfect pre-bed prep.

LJ still seems a little horked. I’ve posted info on my dj and blurty, just in case folks there don’t know about status.livejournal.org

I wonder if they’ve figured out the culprit yet?

At 8:15 pm EST on Thursday, February 20th, Admin lisa writes:
LiveJournal is currently under a Distributed Denial of Service attack, and has been since about 5:30pm PST (1:30 AM GMT) on 2/19. We have been working with our upstream providers (including several major backbones) to filter traffic as quickly and effectively as possible.

Due to the fact that a DDOS attack involves potentially tens of thousands of hosts all working together against a single target (in this case, us), it is extremely difficult to find one group of IP addresses to block to prevent the attack from affecting our services any further. Our upstream providers are currently filtering somewhere around 1/4 of the IPs on the Internet from reaching LiveJournal. Unfortunately, these filters also block legitimate traffic from some users. When the attack has subsided we will remove the filters.

We will continue to monitor and block hosts as we gather more information regarding this attack. We seriously apologize for the inconvenience, and hope you understand we are doing everything in our power to get everything running again.

Additionally, if you have any information as to who or what may be responsible for this attack please email attack_info@livejournal.com.

Tonight, I’ve discovered that Newt likes green onion cornbread as much as I do…which is “Yum! Gimme Some!”