Livejournal under DDOS attack - posting problems

Posting mainly to clear the text file. Due to an ongoing DDOS attack, a lot of LJ users (but by no means all) are finding it difficult to post full entries, at least four people on my friends list are now affected, but I don't seem to be. There's more at known issues, and there are a large number of open support requests on the subject.

There's a botnet attacking LJ, and it's making the site and staff work really hard just to keep it open, let alone adding new content. Not good. Apparently using clients like Semagic or deepestsender mean you can get around some of the problems.

Oh yeah; happy birthday harlotqueen

What a way to go!

comedyjim posted this, kismet. Reminded me I had an email to reply to and some tickets to book as well.

Mat Bowles -- [noun]: A brand of soylent green breakfast cereal 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

How cool is that? And I get to see the film in two weeks, on the big screen. OK, it's in Bradford, but still.

*fingers crossed as I hit 'post' for this one*
*and now the edit to try to clean up their nasty code*