404

Hi. I awoke this morning to a flurry of e-mails from folks saying they were getting 404 errors when they tried to access this site. A 404 error, for those of you who don't know, is kind of The Internet's way of saying, "You have reached a dead end." Not all of you were getting that but some.

In the early days of this blog when that happened, all I could do was get on the phone to my hosting company, listen to "hold" music for what seemed like forever and then, if and when I reached a human being, report it. They'd usually have it fixed before the day was out. I got tired of that so I ditched my first hosting company (even though they were giving me space for free) and moved to one that charged money…though not a lot.

You get what you pay for so I finally moved to a somewhat expensive hosting firm and that's why this blog has been up 99.6% (or something like that) of the time. It's also why when I logged into their support site this morning, I found a notice that they're aware of the problem, they've already instituted a fix and it'll just take a little while for it to spread all across the world-wide web so no one gets that 404 error. If you can read this, it's reached you. This kind of service is why I'm now occasionally asking for money here.