For about 20 minutes this afternoon starting sometime after 1:00pm most of the internet was inaccessible. As far as I can tell the problem was not with us or our internet connection but was most likely somewhere a little bit farther up stream. My traceroutes were showing lots of issues past our ISP but possibly some with them as well. I have not heard anything from them about the disruption yet.
So basically this post is saying, yep there was some problem some where, but it was not our fault 🙂