tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41216372011-04-21T18:13:03.424-04:00Backup for InstaPundit.ComGlennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-56626515188149100402008-07-11T21:53:00.001-04:002008-07-11T21:54:22.992-04:00

SITE'S DOWN, Pajamas Media's down, don't know why. PJM folks tell me they're working on it. If it stays down I'll start posting here.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1170389653658559292007-02-01T23:13:00.000-05:002007-02-01T23:14:13.666-05:00

INSTAPUNDIT'S SERVER ISN'T DOWN, but you may be unable to reach it because of router problems and a cut fiber cable. Should be back up later, but I'm going to bed soon.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1146244294565670942006-04-28T13:11:00.000-04:002006-04-28T13:11:34.576-04:00

RICHARD WRAY:Yahoo appears to have kowtowed to the Chinese government yet again and passed details of a fourth dissident writer's email account to the security forces, brightening the spotlight thrown on the dubious compromises that western businesses are making to operate within the world's second largest internet market.Doing business in China has always involved a heavy dose of realpolitik - a

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1146242732125873522006-04-28T12:45:00.000-04:002006-04-28T12:45:32.126-04:00

TOM MAGUIRE: "I'm not worried that reporters currently spend too much time with Google and Nexis."

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FORGET FOX AND CNN: I THINK THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS should have to listen to the Glenn & Helen podcasts!I'm writing Tony Snow to suggest it . . . .

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I SHOULD NOTE that since email forwards through the InstaPundit server, I'm not getting anything sent to the "pundit" address. You can reach me via instapunditmail -at- gmail dot com until things are fixed. The mail I'm missing should emerge from a buffer whenever this is fixed, though.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1146241508157252682006-04-28T12:24:00.000-04:002006-04-28T12:25:08.156-04:00

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ROUNDS UP critics' views of United 93 (free link). Meanwhile, the audience reviews so far look pretty good.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1146241467906321762006-04-28T12:23:00.000-04:002006-04-28T12:30:00.143-04:00

HOSTING MATTERS IS DOWN as the result of a DOS attack. They're working on it. The only other thing I know is that it originates in Saudi Arabia. I'll be posting here until it's fixed.UPDATE: Rand Simberg emails, correctly, that originating in Saudi Arabia doesn't actually mean that the perpetrators are Saudis -- just the computers they've hijacked. True enough.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1105328083484895022005-01-09T22:33:00.000-05:002005-01-09T22:36:23.046-05:00

THERE APPEARS TO BE ANOTHER DDOS ATTACK on HostingMatters. See you in the morning, either here or on the main site, depending. Whoever's launching these attacks is doing a lot for my reading. I nearly finished the Harry Turtledove book during the last attack, and I'm starting a new book tonight.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1105161578307460762005-01-08T01:18:00.000-05:002005-01-08T00:19:38.306-05:00

INSTAPUNDIT is down, along with all of Hosting Matters, I believe. The HM people say it's a DDOS attack. I'm going to bed now anyway; if the site's still down tomorrow I'll post here, but that's unlikely.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1099442947013961002004-11-02T19:47:00.000-05:002004-11-02T19:49:07.013-05:00

INSTAPUNDIT ISN'T DOWN, and now I can reach it. People are having trouble, though. I think it's general net congestion more than anything. Just wait a few minutes and try again. I'll keep posting here from time to time, too, though, just in case. Bush just took West Virginia, which is news mostly because a loss there would have indicated a likely Kerry landslide.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1099440417775287872004-11-02T19:06:00.000-05:002004-11-02T19:06:57.776-05:00

KENTUCKY, INDIANA, GEORGIA called for Bush by NBC; Vermont for Kerry. Not much news there.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1099439845928722042004-11-02T18:56:00.000-05:002004-11-02T18:57:25.926-05:00

SPOONS has a different kind of pledge: "I PLEDGE TO BITCH ABOUT WHOMEVER IS ELECTED PRESIDENT." Always make promises you know you can keep! He makes a good point here, though: "Don't support a President just because "he's President." He's a servant, not a king. Treat him like it. Give him exactly the support he earns -- no more, no less. If you feel compelled to make some sort of feel-good

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1099437192208418102004-11-02T18:12:00.000-05:002004-11-02T18:13:12.210-05:00

VOTE SAVE ERROR NUMBER 9 I consider myself vindicated.

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DID I DO THAT? "Bloggers Spook Market." Actually, I think it was Drudge.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1099436512931832102004-11-02T18:00:00.000-05:002004-11-02T18:01:52.933-05:00

THE ELECTION NIGHT TRAFFIC is making the InstaPundit site hard to reach -- and sometimes causing Movable Type to crap out when I try to post. The Hosting Matters folks are working on it. In the meantime, I'm going to post some stuff here, too, so that people who can't reach the main site will still have something to read.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1091726682397724582004-08-05T13:24:00.000-04:002004-08-05T13:24:42.396-04:00

Seems to be working again. That didn't take long!

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1091726192781763342004-08-05T13:15:00.000-04:002004-08-05T13:16:32.780-04:00

Instapundit is down -- Hosting Matters is having network problems, of a so-far unspecified nature. If the main site isn't up soon, I'll start posting here.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066778297655445342003-10-21T19:18:00.000-04:002003-10-21T19:18:17.543-04:00

SEEMS TO BE FIXED NOW -- back over at InstaPundit. Be sure to bookmark this backup page, just in case. . . .

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066762307513883712003-10-21T14:51:00.000-04:002003-10-21T14:51:46.880-04:00

HOWARD LOVY has a nice writeup of the Foresight Institute's nano workshop, in SmallTimes. What once was considered "crackpot" is now considered respectable, and potentially lucrative. One suspects that the former is the result of the latter. . . .

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066762038331167662003-10-21T14:47:00.000-04:002003-10-21T14:49:38.193-04:00

THIS PIECE in the Christian Science Monitor suggests that reconstruction in Iraq is going pretty well: Certainly, there remains an enormous amount to fix in Iraq. But there is something unseemly about the impatience of today's pundits, their insistence on instant recovery, and what my colleague Michael Barone calls the media's "zero defect standard." US soldiers and administrators are turning a

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ANDREW SULLIVAN is Fisking Bill Bennett.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066759546465283192003-10-21T14:05:00.000-04:002003-10-21T14:05:46.496-04:00

I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO DIGEST IT -- and there's a good chance I won't like it when I do -- but the President's Council on Bioethics has a new report out.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066759440163109892003-10-21T14:04:00.000-04:002003-10-21T14:04:00.213-04:00

I COMPARE BUSH-HATRED AND CLINTON-HATRED, over at GlennReynolds.com -- and suggest that Bush-hatred may do the Democrats even more harm than Clinton-hatred did the Republicans.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066759368059828332003-10-21T14:02:00.000-04:002003-10-21T14:02:48.140-04:00

MEGAN MCARDLE has another column on Social Security up over at TechCentralStation.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066757626587871202003-10-21T13:33:00.000-04:002003-10-21T13:39:22.250-04:00

HERE'S MORE EVIDENCE that the Democrats are rethinking gun control -- from Mother Jones! UPDATE: Meanwhile, the Army is endorsing gun control. . . .

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066757572253535272003-10-21T13:32:00.000-04:002003-10-21T13:32:51.910-04:00

I WAS WONDERING if anybody even knew to check this site, so I stuck on a counter and, lo! people are visiting. Cool. The outage seems to be lasting, so I'll post some more.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066757076194289692003-10-21T13:24:00.000-04:002003-10-21T13:24:35.963-04:00

NICK CONFESSORE has some interesting thoughts on the Blogs as CB radio flap. My own take will be in my TechCentralStation column tomorrow. Rather than talking about blogs, I'm defending CB radio!

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066754552529196282003-10-21T12:42:00.000-04:002003-10-21T12:42:32.093-04:00

HOSTINGMATTERS IS DOWN AGAIN: I assume due to further hack attacks, though there were AT&T backbone problems, too. Sorry about that. The HM folks seem to be dealing with it with admirable professionalism. Meanwhile, Angry Left points to a disturbing report on Saudi-Pakistani nuclear-weapons cooperation. We should topple the Saudi government before allowing it to get nuclear weapons. A

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066699191682508992003-10-20T21:19:00.000-04:002003-10-20T22:46:12.593-04:00

ONCE AGAIN, I can't reach HostingMatters, or InstaPundit, or any HostingMatters-powered site. I assume it's another DOS attack or something. I'll post more here later if it doesn't come back up. UPDATE: Well, it looked like it was working again, and I even managed to post an update, but then it went back down again. I'm going to bed soon. See you tomorrow.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-1066352050941062802003-10-16T20:54:00.000-04:002003-10-17T20:05:06.233-04:00

HOSTINGMATTERS is down at the moment. I don't know why. I've emailed 'em. UPDATE: Back up later. It was a DoS attack.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-2003965262003-06-06T22:51:00.000-04:002003-06-06T22:54:55.000-04:00

YES, INSTAPUNDIT'S DOWN AGAIN, because some idiot at the server center is physically moving boxes around, I think as part of the cleanup from last week's fire/outage. I don't mind that, but I wish someone had told me. InstaPundit will be back up, well, sometime. It's been quite a computer-outage day for me, as I'll explain in a later post. In the meantime, Nick Denton has some interesting

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-2003565042003-05-29T07:39:00.000-04:002003-05-29T07:39:19.056-04:00

WELL, HOTDAMN -- INSTAPUNDIT'S BACK. About time, too. Go there for all your future blog needs, but bookmark this page in case it happens again, God forbid.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-2003555112003-05-28T23:08:00.000-04:002003-05-28T23:10:25.000-04:00

INSTAPUNDIT IS STILL DOWN, although most of the other HM sites are up. I got an email saying that electricians were trying to work their way to my server, which didn't sound promising. I wonder if it's the one that exploded? Gotta start posting less. . . . I'm going to bed. Check the main site tomorrow morning. In the meantime, this column by Tim Blair is worth reading, not least to

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INSTAPUNDIT HAS BEEN SLOW -- and I wonder how many people are reading this backup site anyway -- but Samizdata has been on a roll. So has OxBlog. And Jonah Goldberg has comments on the recent New York Times piece on "Hipublicans," the hip, young college republicans it has rediscovered, again. Gorillas are invoked. Here's the key bit: Indeed, the number and sophistication of external and

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KEN LAYNE notes that trust in Congress and the media is slipping. Meanwhile, in a post I put up that you can't see right now because the site is down, I noted that trust in the military is up. Short-term, this is an entirely warranted development: the military has earned the trust; Congress and the media have spent theirs. Long-term, it's not healthy to have a society where the military is

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-2003546562003-05-28T18:19:00.000-04:002003-05-28T18:24:28.000-04:00

SORRY FOR THE LACK OF BLOGGAGE, but I was busy and the site was down. More later. Meanwhile Kaus says the Times talent is leaving the sinking ship, and Andrew Sullivan notes this piece on how the Internet and blogs have reduced the Times' -- and traditional journalism's -- authority.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-2003531982003-05-28T12:25:00.000-04:002003-05-28T14:37:56.000-04:00

HOSTINGMATTERS still seems to be down. Even more shocking, they haven't replied to my email. In the past I've always gotten a response within 5 minutes, which is exceptional. I assume that they're really busy, but as a result I don't have any more information than you do about what's going on. There's kind of a nostalgic pleasure to blogging on Blogger, with the old IP template, though.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-2003531132003-05-28T12:05:00.000-04:002003-05-28T12:07:02.000-04:00

BACKING THE WRONG HORSE IS EXPENSIVE:The US-run Iraqi administration has cancelled or suspended three oil contracts with Russian and Chinese firms signed by the ousted government of Saddam Hussein. Thamir Ghadhban, the US-appointed de facto Iraqi oil minister, said on Saturday all pre-war contracts would be re-evaluated and new deals announced soon. "We will examine each one on its legal,

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-2003530972003-05-28T12:02:00.000-04:002003-05-28T12:02:35.563-04:00

SAVE THE HOG: Greg Burch reports on a campaign to save the A-10 Warthog, beloved of infantrymen but not of the Air Force brass. I would say that the obvious solution is to scrap the Key West agreement in which the Army agreed not to fly fixed-wing combat aircraft, but on the other hand air/ground cooperation seems to have been superb in the recent war. But the ongoing efforts to kill the A-10

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-2003527792003-05-28T11:02:00.000-04:002003-05-28T11:02:02.083-04:00

INSTAPUNDIT is currently down. So, as far as I can tell, is HostingMatters. I don't know why, but I can't reach it, or any of the HostingMatters powered blogs that I can think of off the top of my head. More as I find out more.

Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05503267322188113441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121637.post-902023042003-01-18T10:35:00.000-05:002003-01-18T11:19:09.000-05:00

This is the backup for InstaPundit.Com. You won't see anything posted here unless InstaPundit goes down for long enough to make a move here worthwhile. You might want to bookmark this spot, though, since if InstaPundit does go down, the link from InstaPundit won't be there. But you knew that. . . .

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