Comments on: Back in business

By: mz.josephine

mz.josephine — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:01:42 +0000

I was begining to think that the Obama “Thought Police” had shut you down

My exact same thoughts. I actually sort of panicked since MM and Hot Air sites are on top of my must-read daily.

So glad you’re back!

By: JHSII

JHSII — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:09:34 +0000

I figured either the new Communications Czar was starting to shut down the internet voices of the opposition or you got hit with a denial of service attack from the kos-types.

Glad to see it was none of those things!!

By: TheCorruptedLamb

TheCorruptedLamb — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:59:07 +0000

I want to start GITMO Orange Day… January 23rd 2010 when OBOMASIRE fails to close GITMO we all need to put on our orange!

Can we get a GITMO countdown clock?

By: Papa Louie

Papa Louie — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:30:38 +0000

Hot Air and mm.com had some database server issues.

Hmmm. Is taking down opposing web sites one of the functions of the technology czar? If so, I’m sure he’ll get better at it with practice…

By: zorro

zorro — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:35:34 +0000

I’m working the Florida market this week and had to head out this morning without my Michelle updates! I checked Michelle’s tweets on Twitter and was able to make it through the day!

By: steveegg

steveegg — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:40:52 +0000

I hope there wasn’t a lot of blood spilled I know I get grouchy when there’s database issues.

By: Stillwaiting

Stillwaiting — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:23:47 +0000

I told my wife this morning that I thought your sites had been knocked off the net as part of Obama’s effort to shove his health care plan down our throats. The polls show he’s lost popular support, so it’s time to suppress the “dissident” members of the media.

By: purplepeep

purplepeep — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:29:29 +0000

sonofdy said:

My thought was some liberal had hacked your site.

That would make sense in the case of a “DOS’ or hack attack by lefties on Michelle’s site. But “HotAir”? Com’n, it’s pretty much become HuffPo Lite there – or HuffPo On Steroids, depending on the day of the week.

The html code looked like someone had just cleared out the entire main page.

That html is just a placeholder a server puts up when they’re doing some tinkering. It’s saying “yes, the site’s still here, just the usual content isn’t available at this time”. Sometimes you’ll see something like “be back soon” in simple text, though. If it were hacked you’d see a brag page instead (any hacker worth his/her salt wouldn’t miss a chance to take credit.)

When in doubt you can do a couple of things: one, check out another reliable blog site – ferexampull, Instapundit posted at about 8AM this morn that both sites were okay, just doing some housekeeping.

Also handy is this link which will tell if any site is “up” or not:

Down for everyone or just me?

By: The Greenroom » Forum Archive » ‘Human Error’? My Condolences to theFamily and Friends of the Dearly Departed

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:11:45 +0000

[...] of grief for the soul of whatever human was responsible for that error, because I’m sure Michelle Malkin killed him. (Don’t sweat it. Justifiable homicide or temporary insanity, either way, she’ll beat [...]

By: Fairness Doctrine passes overnight?

Fairness Doctrine passes overnight? — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:48:19 +0000

[...] Updated 7/21/09 9:58am Both are back up – no explanation as of yet. Updated 7.21.2009 12:46pm Apparently, the database server decided to go on vacation. Popularity: 1% [...]

By: dan708

dan708 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:17:33 +0000

Glad you’re back, MM! I was afraid that my company’s firewall/netnanny filter was blocking you.

By: jsmiddleton4

jsmiddleton4 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:39:02 +0000

The brightness that I bring to every room in which I walk was a bit dimmer today because I was not able to recharge my batteries by reading MM’s web site first thing in the morning.

By: single stack

single stack — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:21:14 +0000

Whew! I’m glad that’s over.
It will take a while to recover from my MM withdrawal.

By: cheapseat

cheapseat — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:03:38 +0000

michelle: in this time of msm bias-palooza, and with your resources and abilities, it would be a great service to america if you would shine the light on our msm personalities. i just read of the npr editor who walked after downloading child rape porn. he’d suffered enough. we have all manner of perverts, crazies, and criminals telling us daily what is the truth. if i go to the web, i can take what someone says and evaluate that for what it is. but when i turn on a msm outlet, i have an expectation that the ownership of that company has done some due dilligence in evaluating their people. yet we have anchors attacking people over driving too slow in new york, pedophiles at npr, stalkers in philadelphia, wife beaters in st louis, someone needs to shine the light on these people who are our news disseminators.

By: JohnnyD

JohnnyD — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:40:44 +0000

Huh? What? Server issues?

See what happens when you get too busy to check in?

Glad I missed feeling the pain of withdrawal and dread.

Tell those techies to be more careful next time. Mark that power cord clearly so they don’t trip over it again!