I think Lack said 24 hours...not to get anyone's hopes up on just incase recovering everything took longer than what he really thought it could be. Better to be safe, than to be sorry when people are complaining about it not being up in say 7 hours.
ic, i thought i was such an uber hacker i didnt even have to do anything to make the site work. but i guess im still just a guy who doesnt even know how to open the MS-DOS thingy =(