Hi. All of our old posts are still gone. If it makes you feel any better, we can’t get at them either. We guess we should explain this blog’s horrible state of disrepair, and what we’re doing about it.

Sometime on July 26, our award-winning blog disappeared. This happened because our hosting provider had decided not to permit any blogs powered by B2evolution software. This blow hit us quite without warning, at a most inopportune time.

Springing into action, we installed WordPress software on August 8. But there is still much work to do before this blog is working again, and the work is slow going, for three reasons:

1. WordPress is quite different from B2evolution. WP and B2E are both database-driven blogs written in PHP code, but their structures are different enough to make porting the data a huge job, further complicated because we had been using the “multi-blog” feature of B2E, which runs multiple blogs from one installation and one database, a feature which WP does not offer.
2. Our old files are inaccessible. Our aforementioned hosting provider didn’t just disable the B2E code. Instead, they closed down the whole blog directory, containing all the images and other files. The directory is still on the server, but we cannot even access it to move the files we need! We hope to rectify this problem.
3. We’re making some improvements while we’re at it. There were a hundred little improvements we were planning to make “sometime” to our old blog, so we’ll be making a virtue of necessity and improving this blog instead.

So, there you have it. Sorry for the absence, but we really are coming back, in the fullness of time. Do feel free to check in every now and again to see how far along we are.

Okay, today, I put in a WordPress theme called “V4NY38,” by somebody calling himself “V4NY.” It’s not really what I want, of course, but it has this nice three-column layout I can use as a starting point. In fact, I’ve already started monkeying with it. By the time I’m done with my alterations (and that could be awhile), there will probably be precious little left of V4NY38, except for the three columns. But, credit where it’s due: my heartfelt thanks to V4NY for the nice theme.