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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-02-11T10:56:00'
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title: Several news sources (mostly CNN)
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Several news sources (mostly CNN) reported Tuesday that [CNN.com](http://www.cnn.com) was a victim of the recent denial-of-service attacks and was unavailable for some time Tuesday afternoon. At the same time, CNN.com underwent a massive redesign. Coincidence? I think not... I'm guessing the redesign had a flaw that forced it off-line. The redesign's pretty bad, I think, and is fairly unreadable in some places, such as [this article about the Handspring Visor / camera combo](http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/09/handspring.photo.idg/index.html) that features light grey text on a white background. I had to highlight the text just to read it.