I’m sorry that Gentle Wisdom was not available for about an hour last night. My hosting company explained this:

Unfortunately our servers were subject to a DDOS attack which caused the error that you were experiencing relating to your mailboxes not receiving mail and websites not displaying. This issue only lasted for approximately an hour as to which services were then restored.

We apologise for the delay and any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Hmm. Who might have wanted to launch a Distributed Denial of Service attack against this blog? I don’t suppose it could have been anything to do with my challenge to Jim West’s #1 biblioblogger position, and his response to it last night, could it?