Stellenbosch - Last Thursday evening, in what was initially suspected to be a case of first degree blogicide, www.redsaid.net briefly died, plunging both people who knew it into shock and mourning.

www.redsaid.net's remains, which were hidden behind a cold and impersonal 'this website does not exist anymore' error message, was stumbled upon by an unsuspecting late-night surfer.

The surfer, who does not want to be named for fear of being forever associated with this website, is so traumatised, he has not logged on again even once since making the gruesome discovery, even though he has been assured that the victim did NOT, in fact, die a virtual death, as had been initially feared.

After several hours of being inexplicably out of existence - possibly due to exhaustion brought on by fruitlessly waiting to be occasionally updated and discovered by publishers (or even just a few readers, really) - www.redsaid.net was miraculously re(d)suscitated, returning to the world wide web with a loud thump.

Four days after the ordeal, www.redaid.net is alive and well, albeit still as ignored as ever before.

When asked to comment about the near-death experience, www.redsaid.net said: "I was dead? Oh... it didn't really feel much different than any other time. Besides, I don't really remember anything much about being under, except for being at this huge summer's barbecue."

Upon which the reporter asked: "How do you know it was summer?"

"It must've been, because it was really, REALLY hot."