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Hello to all of you who are reading this blog in lieu of LiveJournal’s servers being down. In an event that mirrored the Great LJ Blackout of 2005, LiveJournal’s servers suffered a massive power outage last night around 2AM. This means my main blog (the one that’s kept from public eye and viewable only to about a hundred or so people) is currently kaput while LiveJournal’s parent company, SixApart, works “around the clock” to fix the server issues.

When I started blogging on LiveJournal in 2004, a similar incident just a year later happened where LiveJournal’s servers went offline for two whole days. Back then, though, LiveJournal had a little over 5 million registered accounts–today, that number has more than doubled to a little over 11 million accounts (which means, more servers to host, and more servers to fail!).

As of right now, I’m able to do things on LiveJournal I wasn’t able to do earlier this morning. I’m somehow logged into the service, which means my server (I believe my account is still hosted on Cartman) is back up, but I can’t update my blog, view my blog entries, or do much of anything other than reading the LiveJournal status page (I can hear Ollie Williams shouting, “It’s still broked!”).