As you may or may not have noticed, the website went down at about 9:30pm CST last night… just now got her back up about 10 minutes ago. We had a real nasty thunderstorm pass through last night with a bunch of lightning… we had a bolt strike a main power line literally 300 feet from our apartment! HaDeS actually saw it strike… scared the shit outta both of us, you can imagine how loud it was. Well, power promptly went away for our apartment and it seems a significant chunk of Dallas, Garland and Mesquite as well :-) TXU finally restored power to our apartment complex just a few moments ago… so if you were wondering why the website was down and hardfought.org email, the IRC linkbot, CSCop and the reservation password system were not working… well, now you know :-P My APC Back-UPS 400 probably kept my web-server from frying, but the backup battery only held out for about 4 minutes… bah! I need a bigger one, maybe one of those Smart-UPS 1200 USB jobs… yeah.

Anyways… we’re all good now. Gotta go to work… see ya online.

K2