My blog (such as it is) went unreachable for a while.  I apologize for that.  In addition, I've managed to lose some posts - about two years worth.  Given the rate I post, that worked out to 8 entries.  Of course, they were my best entries ever.

So back up and running, and may have a post or two this year.

It also seems as though many of the posts got reordered and re-dated.  All of these issues are attributable to my horrible backup policy of "occasionally backup, never verify"