Because you go here very frequently, your computer is using the cached result of an earlier DNS search.

But it doesn't work for any of the other sites I go to frequently? I don't mean to interrogate you, I'm just curious. And about to go home, thank god.

But it doesn't work for any of the other sites I go to frequently? I

It should. I don't know how long before the cached value is expired. (DNS servers are somewhat of a mystery to me, hence they are magic.)

I don't mean to interrogate you

WHAT ARE INTERNETING FOR??

Obviously I say "SO" when talking about D., but that's an internet phenomenon left over from when I wasn't revealing my gender identity. In real life I say "my husband, D." a lot, particularly because we discovered that a lot of our kids don't realize we're married. Sometimes they ask us if we're brother and sister, I guess when we talk about living in the same house or something. Which is pretty funny with our ethnic heritage differences, but I guess to them it's not that odd to have siblings of varying ethnicities.

I notice that I say, "my friend, X" when I'm talking about all y'all because I must feel odd introducing some completely random name. I just say the friend's name if it's someone I'm talking about meatspace to meatspace.

Could someone please predict how sick I'll be next year, so I can decide which insurance plan to pick?

Yet another fabulous feature of the fucked upedness of the US healthcare system. We did eenie-meanie-minie-mo. And I threw a dart at a board to guess our FSA deduction.

I didn't do a medical FSA this year, though perhaps I should have. Just childcare and we'll go over that by no problem.

Different sites on the Internet can specify how long their DNS names are cached. www.buffistas.org has a cache lifetime of 86400 seconds, or 24 hours. Big commercial web sites like to specify a cache lifetime that is much shorter. For example, google.com has a cache lifetime of only three minutes. This allows it to recover from failure quicker; if a host goes down, the bad address won't get stuck in other people's DNS caches for very long.

I'm going to get new glasses tomorrow due to FSA screw-ups. Possibly two pairs. Feh.

OOh, the mysteries of DNS, partially revealed....

Sometimes they ask us if we're brother and sister, I guess when we talk about living in the same house or something.

I have two sets of relatives who are a brother and sister living together with their various children -- one of them calls her brother her "brosband," which always makes me laugh.