My apologies for the site being down lately…somehow, my domain is being used to send thousands of e-mails to people I’ve never heard of, and my host (Cedant.com) automatically shuts down my site if more than 500 e-mails are sent within 30 minutes…and the bounce-back of undeliverable e-mails to my GMail account was piling up at over 1,000 per hour. Does that make sense? In other words, someone/thing is sending out massive amounts of e-mails using addresses such as “ElaineBSmith@davidmsc.com” and “warrenGharding@davidmsc.com” — sending them to thousands of addresses that I’ve never heard of. And many of those sent e-mails are being bounced back to my account as undeliverable. Double-whammy.

I contacted Cedant and said that I have no idea what’s happening, and asked them for any tips on how to fix whatever the problem is…but haven’t heard back from them in over 24 hours. I guess one of their techies took a little pity on me and turned my site back on (at least for now). If any of you smarter-than-me folks have any ideas, please let me know!

Oh, and I’m also pissed off because I received a Breaking News e-mail alert at work yesterday from CNN. Breaking news, huh? Let’s see…terrorist attacks? North Korean missiles? Death of a major political figure? Severe storm outbreak? Nope. The *breaking news* alert was for Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown divorce. Un-freaking-believable.