If you actually visit this site on a semi-regular basis, you might’ve noticed that it had been out of action since late last week. My blog suffered pretty much a catastrophic hack. After spending a day e-mailing back and forth with the tech support guys at my Web hosting service, I came to the conclusion that it’s much easier to start over. It’s not like I had too much that was truly valuable anyway. In any case, I’m happy to be back up and running. Not being able to blog these past few days meant that I missed the chance to write several posts, including a fantasy football one that would’ve been titled “Hell Hath No Fury Like DeAngelo Williams Scorned” (about how I cut the Panthers running back in one league only to play against him in another and watch him score three, THREE, touchdowns to pound my team).

The good news is that the one item of relative value I had written — the “How to (Voluntarily) Become an Ex-Journalist” series — will be restored. I managed to fish the posts out of Google’s cache (see, it’s good for something other than digging into the age of Chinese gymnasts). I’ll be restoring those posts in the coming days, and I will try to make them conform to the old URLs so that incoming links won’t be broken. I might also put in a new theme while I’m at it. So changes are on the way. Sorry for the downtime. Hopefully this will be the last of it.