LiveJournal.com Power Outage -- Terrorism?!!! ;)

Power outage takes down popular blog service LiveJournal.com
Report filed by Lulz News Network

At 3:30pm PST on January 14, 2005, Internap’s colocation facility in Seattle experienced a power outage for approximately 45 minutes. This caused many servers of Seattle-based web sites, such as LiveJournal.com, to go offline unexpectedly.

Although the power at Internap has been restored, LiveJournal site admins are still working around the clock to bring the servers back online.

An announcement from LiveJournal site admins: “We’re currently dealing with verifying the correct operation of our 100+ servers. Not fun. We’re not happy about this. Sorry… :-/ More details later.“

Many users were caught by surprise.

“I was in the middle of posting a picture of Goatse in the ‘debate’ community on LiveJournal,” stated Jameth. “Suddenly, FireFox told me that the document contained no data. Of course, I pressed F5 for about seven hours and finally gave up.”

Bloggers began to assume the worst had happened – a Jameth-style takeover of LiveJournal.com, which would inevitably lead to increased amounts of rainbow colors and sodomy references.

“I was swamped with instant messages, emails, phone calls, you name it,” said Jameth after the LiveJournal outage approached twelve hours in length.

“A lot of people were blaming me, since obviously I live in Seattle and the LiveJournal servers are located here. I don’t know why people were assuming that I had something to do with this.”

LiveJournal.com quickly denied the rumor of a Jameth takeover.

“I want to assure the LiveJournal community that LiveJournal user Jameth had nothing to do with the outage,” said Sandy Fitzpatrick, Brad’s mother and general accounting guru of Livejournal.com, in a press release to Lulz News Network correspondent Mandelion.

“Everything went to shit because of the power outage. It isn’t the first time this has happened. The previous incident involved some guy hitting a big red button. It’s somewhat of a similar situation, although the details are still fuzzy at this point.”

Some users took this as an opporunity to catch up on real-life hobbies.

“I don’t mind the outage that much. It gives me time to do other things, like knitting a baby outfit for my newborn son,” said LiveJournal user Iworshipsatin, who seems unphased by the outage.

Other users are not quite as happy.

“We have started groundwork on a class-action lawsuit involving LiveJournal users against Six Apart Ltd./Danga Interactive and Internap regarding this situation,” an anonymous source stated Saturday after LiveJournal.com had been down for nearly 24 hours.

“This is inexcusable. By not providing outlet for teenage angst, these companies have seriously compromised the mental stability of the blogging community.”