My website is on its way back.  Website-wise, the beginning of 2010 was looking like the year of web hosting gone bad.  At my old hosting company (Impact Hosting), a webserver which hosted my site apparently crashed and burned.  Shockingly, the hosting company had made no backups of the contents of my server so the contents of my old website - as well as years of webmail - was lost forever.  So I made  a hasty switch to WebHost4Life.  For a short while all seemed well - until I was informed of a pending migration to a 'new platform'.  The migration to the new platform became another months-long debacle filled with prolonged periods of website and webmail downtime and general screwiness. So again I left in frustration.  Now, with most of 2010 behind me, I think I found a home at my new hosting company - until they decide to sell out to another huge hosting conglomerate and things dissolve into chaos and pandemonium again.

The moral to this story is simple:  The internet is not a safe repository for your work.  Depending on remote hosting companies to store your precious files is a serious mistake.  Make regular local backups.  One day, the files you have on your website and webmail etc. will be gone.  In my case, when they were gone - they were really gone.

Now, lessons having been learned, I am beginning to rebuild.  Please accept my apologies for the sparseness of this once content-rich site.  Many new things will soon come this way.