[ Thanks to sjvn for this
link. ]
“For about six hours yesterday, the staff of eWEEK.com was
treated to a lesson in emergency improvisation. But thanks to 123
lines of Python code, running on a $7-a-month personal Web site on
an Apache Web server somewhere in California, you probably didn’t
notice.“On Monday, we here at Ziff Davis experienced a small technical
obstacle to our daily operations. Due to the theft of network
interface cards from a Verizon co-location facility in Manhattan,
our New York office lost access to the Internet from 10:30 p.m.
Sunday until about 4:30 p.m. Monday…”