Did this have anything to do with the blogswithinablogwithinablogwithinablog?

You don't say that like you mean it. Who were you with?

@Henifer Hropes: Blogably.

It felt like 5 hours. Which is really disturbing in the Gawker-as-crack sense.

Melee

You have no idea how hard this was for me. I was forced to kill time on NYmag.com.

Don't EVER do that again! My friend in IT got canned last week and I was afraid the new regime was cracking down.

@Helman: It was 2 hours. I counted.

@Henifer Hropes: No way, don't go blaming that guy. He got lynched anyway! He has taken enough abuse.

Oh, really? I hadn't noticed.

Gawker sites were down an hour, doo-dah, doo dah
Housekeeping apologies, oh dee doo dah day.

And during lunchtime, too.. very frustrating!

I was a tad nervous it was all the ohammed-May artoon-cay okes-jay. Glad to know everything is fine.

Praise allah.

@SoftBeadySuedeShoes: True.
Actually, it was ME who brought it down. In protest. Because I don't have a star.

Also, Nick why not use the old "Sorry, the site was down for some back-office upgrades" excuse? Used to work in the old days.

My satellite went down about the same time and I was convinced we were under attack. They I realized my cell phone worked and so did the rest of the internet. So I made a relish and mustard sandwich and soldiered on.

@BK_KT: You think that's bad, sister? I was desperate. Desperate! I had to kill me some time...and ended up on Perez Hilton. egads! Kill me now.

oh...and first, bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I met Emily Gould a couple of weeks ago. She asked me what I do for a living and I told her. She said "Well, clearly you have a lot of free time!" Just how much free time, I did not realise until today.

@CodePink: And the FourthGawkerDimension survives on. Where we boldly go where no other commenter has gone before.

@Henifer Hropes: How DOES one rate one of those star things anyway?

I'm willing to try to move past this ugly incident, for a star.

...and the world comes to a halt.

@MartyPants: LOL, I went to PH just to see if there was any kind of "Gawker is down" post.

@MartyPants: Clearly, bringing down the gawker sites isn't one way. (Must go converse with the Pinky to my Brain to figure something out)

@collegecallgirl: Ha. Nor did I. I was catching up on email in between hitting refresh 9000 times.

did Pakistan try to block you guys again?

Guys, while Gawker was down I blogged that I have a real problem. I want you to know that I've blogged my first blog: I'm bloggerless over blogs, and my blog has become unbloggable.

@Henifer Hropes: mwah ha ha ha. mwaaaahhh ha ha ha.

I'm still shaking a bit.

China says it's the Dalai Lama's fault.

Isn't "Pop Fiction" by Ashton Kutcher DA BOMB y'all?

I finally got around to reading Das Kapital.

So, did anyone have Gawker blackout sex?

3/20. Never again.

Was this like a Starbucks-style shutdown?

"We are going to make PERFECT blog posts now, people. If you think your post is crap, don't post it for our customers. And if you need to grind your beans, do it out in the open. I want us all to be inspired by the natural aroma in here. Now get blogging."

@Mary Mouse: Not with anyone else.

All kidding aside, that hurt.

@fiveinchtaint: We broke Gawker. I know it. Now everyone go comment on Taint's post 150 more times...

("Taint's post": sounds dirty)

@Mary Mouse: Yup. With myself.

Man, those Gawker Tremlins are a bitch!

That's what you get for pissing off 2 billion Muslims. What the hell did you think would happen when you (not me, certainly) insulted Mohammad like that?

@rosaluxembourgeoise: How was it?

I just read a newspaper instead. I might have singlehandedly revived that ol' dead tree media. Yay me.

Gawker Media needs a new Director of I.T. Seriously. Think about it.

You've got my email address.

@pufflehuff: Honestly? The bits on commodity fetishism rang uncomfortably true. So relieved to be resuming meaningful human interaction under advertising banners.

I was beginning to feel so...alienated.

First,
I thought it was me crashing the server as all the beautiful women of Gawker sending their photos into the Girls of Gawker Gone Wild Calendar Contest overloaded the system.

[gawker.com]

Then I realized the Gawker offices were being sprayed for crabs.

Still time to enter. See your favorite gawker female commentators before the calendar goes on sale.

@rosaluxembourgeoise: Fair enough. Sounds... Dellilo-esque, if a little tiring.

So what's next on the reading list, in case Nick Denton's blog empire lets us down again? I'm going for The Telegraph myself, hoping that there are more "functioning alcoholic" diaries to set a benchmark for me. Er, I mean, to shudder at.

Excuses, excuses.