The site was down for several days until this afternoon, as you may have noticed. As near as I can figure this was triggered by an overdue bill, which I paid on the 15th of the last month. I had gotten a warning email that day before I paid it that my account could be shut down in 48 hours if I didn't pay, but I never got another one that my web sites had actually been shut down. I didn't discover the shutdown until Monday, and the sites were brought back up after three emails to my hosting company, the first two of which went unanswered.

While the hosting company certainly should have been more communicative and responsive (and this may be the excuse I need to move over to Dreamhost soon), it also would not have lasted nearly as long without my own many-faceted neglect of the site. And even though there's no commerce going on here, and no one was complaining that it was down, I have somehow come to believe that it is important to maintain my online presence. So I apologize, and will make sure nothing this severe happens again.