Web Log - January 3, 2009

I notice from the error log files for my website that several regular visitors have bookmarked pages which no longer work. I do apologize for this, but of course I have my (lame) reasons . . .
In September 2008 the remnants of three or four hurricanes arrived from Florida in the form of severe thunderstorms, one of which mortally wounded the server hard drive and basically shut the site down. Resurrecting the site has been a slow process not helped by a total lack of spare time while working for a company which not only demanded a lot of inconvenient work time on ever-varying shifts but also decided in October to manage without my services. Which is another time-consuming story . . .
Fortunately although the operating system and databases were damaged all of the data is still intact, so I'm in the process of rebuilding the entire website on a new (Well, not axactly new but different.) system with the old drive mounted as an 'extra'.
Since I am now joyfully unemployed, and attempting with some effort to stay that way, I hope to use my copious free time to update all the pages and get them back into their correct places as soon as possible. Most of this work has gone extremely well, with only a couple of minor hiccups. Until today.
The ISP decided to change all the IP Addresses in its system. To the uninitiated and sublimely ignorant, this is the electronic equivalent of telling everybody that their new address is now the one that was five houses down on the opposite side except for numbers above 127 which now have the name of the next street, which has been changed to the same as the one two blocks over in the other direction.
So . . . although I know where ginanjohn.com is, you don't. And you probably won't know until the ISP graciously deigns to bestow me with a new modem and another assigned IP address, which could take a couple of weeks. And then I'll tell you. Hopefully. I'm trying, Dammit! I'm trying!

In the meantime, much-belated congratulations to Mike Powell on becoming a great-grandfather.