andamu

We left for Denver on Wednesday. The same day there was a major power outage back at home. The broadband internet connection was also knocked out, and when everything came back up, the router was confused and the server suffered issues.

This meant that during the entire period that I was at the conference, there was no blog, because there was either no server or no internet connection; and none possible until we got home and sorted it out. (For "we" read MPO).

I find that there are many, many advantages to hosting one's own web server. This, however, is one definite negative. It is also the reason that, despite strong consideration, I am not hosting others' blogs or websites on our server. When your own service is interrupted by external factors, it is annoying. When someone else's service is interrupted, even when that service is provided free of charge, their annoyance after some time is not with the situation, but with the people involved. They come to rely on the service, and feel its lack acutely.

But, back to the initial point: In the light of the havoc wreaked by our five-day absence, I cannot even imagine what would happen in less than two months when we leave for India for five weeks!

We've certainly learned now, as Murphy's Law states:

If anything can go wrong, it will.