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+
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
+<head> 
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> 
+<title>THE SYSTEM IS **DOWN**</title> 
+
+
+
+
+<style type="text/css"> 
+/*
+You are allowed to do whatever you want with this layout. Though I would be pleased if you placed a link on your site to csseasy.com or to profit42.com (best "blog about hacking" ever). Donations are also welcome: paypal@profit42.com (or follow the donation button on csseasy.com)
+*/
+ 
+body {
+font-family: "helvetica", 'arial', 'sans-serif';
+width:750px;
+margin:0 auto;
+margin-top:30px;
+}
+ 
+ 
+ 
+/* ----- HEADER ----- */
+ 
+ 
+ 
+#header {
+width:750px;
+height:100px;
+text-align: center;
+}
+
+#header h1 {
+  font-size: 60px;
+}
+ 
+ 
+/* FAUX LAYOUT WRAPPER */
+ 
+ 
+/* 
+This div is optional: When you delete it the navigation bar and the content block won't have the same size when one of them has a larger height then the other. I recommend you to leave this faux layout wrapper here.
+ 
+IMPORTANT: In order to make this work you have to download http://csseasy.com/layouts/fixed/background_4.gif (copy past in your address bar) and place it in the same folder as this html file. DON'T HOTLINK to this file.
+*/
+ 
+ 
+#wrapper{
+width:750px;
+overflow:auto; /* USE FIREFOX GUYS! WE ONLY NEED THIS LINE BECAUSE INTERNET EXPLODER ISN'T READING CODE PROPERLY */
+margin-top:10px;
+}
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+/* ----- NAVIGATION ----- */
+ 
+ 
+ 
+#navigation {
+width:250px;
+min-height:500px; /* for modern browsers */
+height:auto !important; /* for modern browsers */
+height:500px; /* for IE5.x and IE6 */
+float:right;
+}
+ 
+ 
+/* ----- MAIN CONTENT ----- */
+ 
+ 
+ 
+#content { 
+width:490px;
+min-height:300px; /* for modern browsers */
+height:auto !important; /* for modern browsers */
+height:300px; /* for IE5.x and IE6 */
+margin-top:10px;
+}
+ 
+ 
+ 
+/* ----- FOOTER ----- */
+ 
+ 
+ 
+#footer { 
+width:750px;
+height:0px;
+margin-top:10px;
+}
+</style> 
+</head> 
+<body> 
+<div id="header"> 
+  <h1> OH NOES!</h1>
+	</div> 
+<div id="wrapper"> 
+  <div id="navigation"> 
+    
+<script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script>
+<script>
+new TWTR.Widget({
+  version: 2,
+  type: 'profile',
+  rpp: 5,
+  interval: 6000,
+  width: 240,
+  height: 300,
+  theme: {
+    shell: {
+      background: '#333333',
+      color: '#ffffff'
+    },
+    tweets: {
+      background: '#ffffff',
+      color: '#000000',
+      links: '#2eabff'
+    }
+  },
+  features: {
+    scrollbar: true,
+    loop: false,
+    live: true,
+    hashtags: true,
+    timestamp: true,
+    avatars: false,
+    behavior: 'all'
+  }
+}).render().setUser('joindiaspora').start();
+</script>
+
+		</div> 
+    <div id="content"> 
+      <h1> DIASPORA* is down right now, but we are probably <a href='https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/commits'>doing something awesome.</a></h1> 
+      <h1> We will be back shortly!</h1>
+
+      <h3> Be sure to check out some sites we love:</h3>
+      <ul>
+        <li><a href='https://cubbi.es'>Cubbi.es</a></li>
+        <li><a href='http://vhx.tv'>VHX.tv</a></li>
+        <li><a href='https://github.com'>GitHub</a></li>
+        <li><a href='https://html5zombo.com'>zombocom</a></li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <h3>Still need your DIASPORA* fix?</h3>
+      <ul>
+        <li><a href='http://twitter.com/joindiaspora'>@joindiaspora</a></li>
+        <li><a href='http://getsatisfaction.com/diaspora'>Get Satisfaction</a></li>
+        <li><a href='https://github.com'>GitHub</a></li>
+      </ul>
+		</div> 
+	</div> 
+<div id="footer"> 
+	</div> 
+</body> 
+</html>
