So… I wake up Saturday morning, and I cannot connect to Beacon. I start poking around, trying to figure out what’s wrong when Danny calls me, and he cannot log into Beacon.

I find out from a student via AIM that they can. I then route my way to Beacon by ssh-ing in from another account. (Thank you, altschools.) Danny and I fear the worst… someone is messing with us… someone has hacked us… someone has hacked our firewall and blocked Danny and myself. You can imagine.

Six hours later, we get it confirmed that Road Runner’s routing is messed up, and they are the reason that Beacon people all up and down the West Side of Manhattan cannot log in.

About two hours ago, I was able to get back on.

I had time to write a long blog entry. Instead, I just spent a bunch of time reading the Beacon forums that all the other folks were writing this weekend, uploading all the work I wrote offline, and now I’m off to bed.

Sorry about the lack of blogs… going to try to get back in the swing of things this week.