I’m going under the knife tomorrow, for some long-overdue minor (or perhaps more than minor, but routine) surgery. Not sure how long it will be until I’m at the computer again, but if you don’t hear from me for a few days, that’s why.
[Update a few minutes later]
For those concerned, it really is routine. Nothing life threatening — just some repair to the structure. I am very fortunate that this is the most major medical situation with which I’ve had to deal in my life. For instance, I’m sure that childbirth would be much worse. One of the reasons I so admire women.
For anyone wondering what happened yesterday, my server died (MB or PS, not sure which). Just so you didn’t think you went back in time a couple weeks overnight. I’ve been running on a new machine since yesterday, but we didn’t update the databases until just a few minutes ago. Normal blogging and commenting can recommence.
A few people have told me that they’ve been having problems commenting lately. I finally figured out the problem. I get notified of moderated comments that WordPress is holding, but not for Akismet. So I just went into Akismet and found several comments by regulars that it had thought (for whatever reason) was spam. I’ve released them all, and will now start checking that regularly i.e. at least daily). If you are trying to post and it’s not accepting it, let me know.
We got in last night (did some hiking in Yosemite on Monday). Yes, I’m aware of the site issues. The problem seems to be intermittent, which makes it harder to troubleshoot (and I’m not that much of a PHP maven to do such troubleshooting). I suspect it has something to do with the template update I did a few weeks ago. Any suggestions are appreciated. But I’m also pretty busy getting a talk prepared for the Mars Society conference on Friday, and getting caught up from being gone for a week.
Blogging will continue to be light for the next couple days. We spent the weekend in Vallejo after the NewSpace conference, and are heading over to Yosemite today, then back down 395 to LA tomorrow.
I’m driving up to San Jose this afternoon to attend NewSpace 2012, so blogging will be nonexistent until tonight, and perhaps light for the next few days.
[Thursday morning update]
Got in about 7:30 last night (I came up 101 rather than 5), and had dinner with a few folks. I’ll be heading over to the conference hotel in a few minutes (I’m staying down in San Jose). Not sure what the Internet situation will be there, but I’ll probably at least be able to tether to my phone. There’s supposed to be a big Armadillo announcement today (I’m guessing that it has to do with their planned flight into space in the next month or so).
Spent the night in Tehachapi, and driving up to the Bay Area for meetings tomorrow. Lots of good blogs in the sidebar, though. Free ice cream will resume later in the week.