This senate race took a very bloody turn today when Lieberman's website and email capabilities "went down." In my very varied career choices, I served, for four years, as a webmaster of an intranet for a very large financial institution (that no longer exists, having been bought out by a larger corporation). Although it was an intranet, and could not be accessed by the general public, we were responsible for the loan decision mechanism that would grant (or not) loans quickly to our customers, as well as hosting other important internal information. Big money went into the servers and bandwidth to host such capabilities...and even they failed at (many) times!
The news of Lieberman's site going down, brought on heart palpitations, dry mouth, and memories of times past. From what I can discern, old Joe got what he paid for. He was (allegedly) paying $15 per month to a web host for his $12 million campaign's website. Oh. My. God. This is basement cheap! If this is true, what was the man thinking? Given his support of the Bush admin's running of the Iraqi war, should we be surprised? Is this just simply more evidence of the pervasive incompetence of beltway insiders? And his whining that it was his opponent's fault...that's just bunk. Joe, you shoulda had the thing more secure (if you were indeed hacked into), and I guarantee ya $15 per month isn't going to buy you security. I think Joe's fate was sealed when he was kissed by Judas...er, GWB.
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