You may or may not have noticed that SquareZ was inaccessible for a while last week. Believe it or not, SquareZ was the victim of a terrorist attack. Not the target, mind you (a square dance blog as a threat to terrorists?), just a peripheral casualty. My webhost, Hosting Matters, hosted an anti-terrorist site, and was shut down by a denial-of-service attack.

Here are some links about it:

• Newsday.com – Terror Link to Mass ‘Blog’ Outage
• Winds of Change.NET: Blog Wars: Who’s Behind the Attacks?
• Winds of Change.NET: Special Report: Cyber-Attack on Warbloggers
• Haganah B’Internet : : Internet Haganah: a mirror of the site that triggered the DOS attack

I make a real effort not to be political here; after all, square dancing is a pretty apolitical activity. However, one can’t escape its effects.