War traffic jam

Reading up-to-the-minute blogs and news sites, the Layne family subscribes to the local paper “for the coupons and the (limited) local news, and the whole front section is about as worthless as putting on a condom after you got laid. If I wanted to read a bunch of L.A. Times articles from Friday, I would’ve done it Thursday night.”

The intensity of interest in Internet based news is clear in our traffic logs: a) we didn’t have the normal weekend dip and b) visits doubled yesterday morning as people returned to their broadband offices. (I bet newstand sales are up no more than 20%.) To see a traffic graph for one of our servers click