*Update II* Mystery solved. I was checking dailycal.org (as apparently were a number of other people) and for whatever reason, that address had stopped working, and only the full www.dailycal.org would lead to the website. And yes, calling the Daily Cal would have easily led me to that answer, but then I couldn’t have posted all the comments from the Berkeley LiveJournal. *End Update*

*Update* I’m trying to open up the Daily Cal website and it isn’t working. Beetle says it isn’t working for him either. Are we the only two who can’t access it, but everyone else can, or are other people having trouble too? *End Update*

I figured that the Daily Cal would be down for a couple of days and then they would bring the website back, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I was hoping to get in touch with some of the higher ups at the DC to find out what the situation is, but alas, I don’t know who those people are and I can’t check (because the website is down). Hopefully one of the tech people or an editor will see this and can leave a comment letting us know what is going on and when the Daily Cal might return. [And if this post doesn’t work, I’ll call the office and see if I can get an answer.]

If I were Beetle, this is where I would make a comment noting that the Daily Cal has previously won awards for their online prescence.

Anyway, here is (mildly humorus) exchange from the Berkeley LiveJournal Community about the Daily Cal outtage. Anything not in quotation marks is me paraphrasing.

Original Post: The Daily Cal website is down. What’s happening? Will someone scan copies of the paper and post them online?
Daily Cal staffer: Our computers are all really really crappy. Techincal difficulties… Please bear with us.
Patronizing computer guy: “We have to have the most incompetent student newspaper staff in the states.” Lots of downtime, no updates… you guys suck!
Daily Cal staffer response: “we have brilliant tech people who are making do with some horrendously outdated equipment and programs on extremely limited funding” We’re an independent newspaper, and being a newspaper is really hard, so you should cut us some slack.
Patronizing computer guy responds again: I know community colleges that do better with less funding. (zing!) Perhaps you guys should look into using non-crappy software and a non-crappy server. “I just think it’s utterly embarrassing that we supposedly one of the best schools in the world, and no one has figured out this asinine problem. Obviously, nobody has taken responsibility for it.”
Random Passerby: “Well, at least Squelch is up. They have better news anyway! Mwahahaha.” [Sidenote: here is the online PDF of the most recent version of the Squelch magazine.]
Beetle: The Daily Cal website being down “also makes my job tougher. Although I suspect that the Daily Cal may prefer it that way.”