In what is swiftly becoming an annual tradition, the Nullset experienced its 'Great February Crap-Out '05,' as the popular blog/humor site's webhost, 34sp.com, was forced to take the site down due to negligent hosting payments.  The site outage, which commenced on February 19 and lasted until the 24th, has left readers annoyed but not surprised.  However, it is reported that Malburg's network connection cables, both personal and work-related, have ignited under the stress of recieving an as-yet-uncounted number of aggravated flame e-mails and instant messages.

"Last year, I was really upset, and I tossed around a lot of literary allusions and stuff to illustrate just how worked up I was, mostly out of a pathetic need for attention," said Nullset writer and admin Jordan Racey, in a telephone interview conducted yesterday.  "But when it happened again this year, I just sort of thought 'Well, here we go again.  Nothing ever changes.'  No doubt Mike was off taking a week-long dump or whatever and just forgot to get up and pay the hosting bill."

"I'm really starting to hate him," said fellow admin Kevin Gerhart.  "The moving away, the not doing things exactly the way I would do them, the not living in Mason County - as it stands, I keep a supply of Mike-photos that I tape to the inside of my toilet bowl.  And now this.  His utter incompetence has taken away the one forum I had to publicly mock his pathetic excuse for an existence.  The nerve.  The utter nerve of some people!"

Gerhart had to be taken to his room and given several portions of pizza rolls laced with powerful sedatives, shouting "Why?  Why does he have to be so stupid?  WHY?"

Readers of the Nullset set had varying opinions.

"This sucks," said Curtis Miller, in an interview in his stately quarters in Cambridge, MA.  "I mean, I've had to stoop to reading back issues of the Harvard Lampoon to get my funny on.  You can only read 'Retro:  The Making of a Movement' about one-third of a time before it ceases to be funny.  At all.  Watch this - I can hit this puppy with a croquet mallet, and it'll be funnier than that."

It was at this point that we ended Mr. Miller's portion of the interview.

William Nordine, a friend of the Nullset staff, had this to say:  "The Nullset is down?  What's that again?  Oh yeah, that stupid website that Jordan won't ever shut up about.  Yeah, I never go there.  I didn't know it was still up.  Looks like now it isn't."

The Nullset's Webmaster and CEO Michael W. Malburg III had the following comments regarding the crap-out:  'Yeah, uh, well, I hope everyone got to take a break a little with this year's crap-out, and uh, I just would like to take this time to say that our little run-in with our hosting service definitely had nothing to do with me playing World of Warcraft for a straight week.  I would like to add that this urinary catheter that I am holding is here because I definitely had a bladder infection and not because I use it to keep from having to stop playing WoW to go to the bathroom.  Such behavior is silly and not at all the sort of thing that a responsible person with a reasonable outlook on gaming time (like me) should do."

"I guess 34sp.com just enjoys the February Crap-Out just as much as we do."

NOTE:  No puppies were harmed in the writing of this article.  Well, just one.  It was really more of a stern look than anything else.