So about a week ago I came home to my mum's, went on the computer and headed for NG.. Or, tried, at least; I ended up with good old 'The page could not be found'-message. As I have had this problem before sometimes when using Firefox, I tried it in Internet Explorer instead, but to my big disappointment the same error occurred there as well.

So I made some research, and it turns out that Telia (my ISP) and Cogent (which I don't know much about, but I guess that most of you guys do) had an argument over something, and it ended up with Cogent pulling the plug on Telia, causing 'black holes' on the Internet for anyone with Cogent or Telia.. and apparently Newgrounds servers is on Cogent :(

Desperate to get my daily dose of NG, as well as adding Nicholas-Deary to my portal buddies for a game that we were to release the same day, I tried out proxies. I didn't have much luck though, all proxies that I tried allowed me to get on the site, but due to lack of support for AJAX (I believe), I could barely use any of the functions on the site.

Now I'm at my dad's, where we have another ISP, again for a week . So for now I'm fine, but when I get back to my mum's next Friday.. No NG for me :(

If anybody's interested in "Telia-Cogent spat" you can read more here: http://gigaom.com/2008/03/14/the-telia -cogent-spat-could-ruin-web-for-many/

So yeah, if anybody wonders why I don't answers PM's or something, now you know why this probably is :/

(One last note: I heard that another consequence due to this was that Cogent users couldn't play WoW, as Blizzard's servers are hosted on Telia.. Rather hilarious, imo XD )

UPDATE
Apparently this issue has now been solved, thanks Forgetthename who brought me these terrific news :)