My hosting company had an unfortunate accident which for some unknown reason caused the loss of all the data on my machine. Unfortunately I didn’t have off-site backups, just local ones, so I’ve had to set everything up again from scratch. (This time, one of the first things I did was set up daily backups to my laptop using dar and rsync.) There wasn’t too much irreplaceable original content (with one notable exception), so most everything I can bring back from elsewhere. The blog posts will be returning shortly, thanks to the cross-posting to Xanga.