Give My Creation Life!

As anyone (is there anyone?) who still has this site in their RSS feed can now tell: my server is once again running.

If your feed screwed up and showed a bunch of new entries you had already seen before, that's because I had some issues and ended up having to reinstall from an old backup.  The good is that I had backups of most of my entries that post-dated that point (including some that never got posted here), the bad is that I didn't have an actual database backup, which means I lost a fair number of my books that I entered into it.  (Basically: the battery on the motherboard, which keeps the NVRAM state, is dead.  No battery = no quik boot-loader = troubles for anyone who unplugs the machine and forgets to keep a rescue disk — as in floppy — around somewhere.)

So what have I been up to without this web-server?  Well, I went to Newfoundland on a business trip, I read a fair amount of books (if you're on GoodReads you can find my profile over here) and bought even a fairer amount, and basically sat around hating Fredericton most of the rest of the time.

I'm getting the feeling that it may be time to move on, but more on that some other time.