1 This is completely off topic, but as of about midnight January 8 a coordinated Denial of Service attack was apparently carried out against several popular conservative blogsites, such as PowerLine, Instapudit and LGF. This site seems to going down as I write this at 12:39 a.m.

2 I'm okay now, though. You're in the Eastern Time Zone, obviously. I'll run and check on those sites you mentioned before I go to bed: curiouser and curiouser. I don't think I'm too vulnerable: remember that I'm hosted in Australia, by someone who knows what he's doing and backs everything up. However, as part of a blog collective I might conceivably be brought down by an event such as you describe if sites like Ace of Spades or The Llama Butchers are discussing it and get totally swamped.