January 23, 2004

AAAAAARGH!
I guess I feel a bit like Howard Dean. Everything is going great, the Internet is getting the mesage out, folks are getting excited, and then, on a cold day in January, "Kapowie!", everything fizzles and I'm all alone in the snow.
I'll try not to bore you with too much backstory but I feel I owe you an explanation as to why this site has been stuck on January 15th for several tedious days.
When Everyday Matters started to develop an audience, it put too much strain on my host's servers. On one day, there were 64,291 hits and visitors downloaded 2 gigabytes of files — a lot of journal lovers looking at a lot of image files. So I went searching for a new host who would be happier with this situation and found one who, unfortunately couldn't help me reconstruct all this stuff and getting it to run again. It turns out a blog and its databases are fairly complicated.
Fairly quickly, I hit the limits of my technical knowhow until, after much flailing around, the folks who developed Moveable Type agreed to bail me out. Finally, late on Thursday, Everyday Matters came back on line.
While I was waiting and shredding my cuticles, I managed to write and draw a few new things and I'm back to regular postings, starting with "The Unwanted." Thanks for your patience; I hope we can start the dialogue up again and I'll be slathering on all kinds of massive banwidth goodies and boatloads of pictures (well, within reason. Fear not, all you AOL and dial up critters).
As for Doc Dean, well, his blog never went off line.