My blog (such as it is) went unreachable for a while. I apologize for that. In addition, I've managed to lose some posts - about two years worth. Given the rate I post, that worked out to 8 entries. Of course, they were my best entries ever.
So back up and running, and may have a post or two this year.
It also seems as though many of the posts got reordered and re-dated. All of these issues are attributable to my horrible backup policy of "occasionally backup, never verify"