Over the last week those of us who use Time Warner Cable as our internet provider have been graced with page cannot be displayed errors and pages loading without CSS almost every day this week.  Tonight Time Warner sent out an e-mail to it’s customers confirming that there was in fact an issue.

“During the past week, hackers have launched a series of attacks on Time Warner Cable’s servers. Time Warner Cable is working with law enforcement agencies to resolve these crimes.

As a result of these attacks, you may have experienced a temporary “outage” when attempting to surf the Web, including an intermittent “page cannot be displayed” error message. The outages did not result in services being 100% unavailable; and were limited to sporadic timeouts which appeared to be random events. Some users may have experienced a total disconnect. These types of attacks are not uncommon, especially for a network as large as ours. We suspect that the attackers are using “zombie computers,” or hijacking unsuspecting subscribers’ machines to perpetrate the attack without its owner’s knowledge.”

It appears that Time Warner is still trying to work out the kinks as of this evening, but about 15 minutes ago my wife and I started to see an increase in connection speeds here in Corona, CA.

This is the second series of major outages Time Warner has seen in the past few months.  Many of us here in Southern California were impacted by major server outages back in December that affected nearly 1.2 million Southern California subscribers.

For those of you who have been reading for a while you may know that I’m a pretty avid listener of the Los Angeles based radio station 106.7 KROQ and the Kevin and Bean show which airs weekday mornings.  You may also recall my attempt back in March to get some air time with the Kevin & Bean show with my Criss Angel is a douche bag stunt on Zotfish.

Last week the Kevin & Bean show hosted their Annual Miss Double D-cember pageant.  Miss Double D-cember is a contest which allows women to show off their “talents” in an effort to win the title of Miss Double D-cember and the perks that come along with it, such as attending KROQ events, etc.  Morning show listeners vote for the top contestants and after the voting is over there is a pageant held to determine the winner of the contest.

The 2009 Miss Double D-cember pageant took place last Friday at the Sidebar in Fullerton California and a winner was crowned live on the Kevin & Bean show.  This years winner and owner to the title Miss Double D-cember 2009 is a 25 year old bartender from Chino Hills named Cassandra.

PlasticSurgery.com was on hand at the event and did an outstanding recap of the event.  You can read all about it and see exclusive pics in their article; Breast Augmentation Patients Participate in KROQ Double D Pageant.

I’ve spent a lot of time these past few weeks fighting against Prop 8 and it’s recent passage.  I’ve had a lot to say and made a number of points against Prop 8 and have even thrown out a, though light hearted, potential solution.  On November 10th Countdown’s Keith Olbermann made the following statement in regards to the passage of Prop 8 in California.  I found it moving and was happy to hear that he made a lot of similar points that I have made.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, and I hope those of you who voted Yes on 8 or were on the fence about the issue find some value in this.

This issue is far from over and with as much support as the No side is getting after the election I am hoping things can change.  My only hope is that things can change in such a way that there is a compromise that will prevent this from going back on the ballot in 2012 if it gets overturned somehow.