No mere noun—nor even an exclamation—could be expected to wreak so great a force of internet traffic against a site (e.g. The Aural Times, and so, therefore, I conclude that Yahoo! is a verb; and I have been yahoo!ed.

It has, accordingly, been sort of a bumpy morning. I’m just now at work, after some panicked discussion of how to avoid letting the server choke on the sudden influx of traffic (”oh well”, I told myself a couple weeks ago, “that’s my big traffic spike, I suppose…”). The site seems to be responding—this one runs off the same server, and, well, I’m typing this, so that’s something.

It should be an interesting day.

The Yahoo! writeup contains a few direct links to songs, which, honestly, I’m torn about. On the one hand, that’s a great way to get people right at some of the content, and they picked a nice array of songs. On the other hand, I want folks to see the site. Though I’m about knee deep in a redesign at the moment, so I suppose I’m not endorsing the currently layout of the site all that much even in my own head.

Oh well. Exciting, regardless. For comparing me to They Might Be Giants, I can forgive Yahoo! for also comparing me to Adam Sandler.