Taking Victor up to Trent University today, so no posting until later. Maybe.

HostGator, my ISP, had some router issues this morning, so apologies if you tried to access the site and couldn’t. Things appear to be stabilizing now.

Happy New Year, everyone. 2009 wasn’t my favourite year, but it was a mild improvement over 2008, which in turn was nearly as shitty as 2007. 2006, that was a pretty good year . . .

I hadn’t planned to avoid blogging all weekend, it just sort of happened. Of course, at this time of year, many of you aren’t reading the blogosphere as frequently, so it probably balances out.

Hoping to get a chance to do a bit of blogging later today. Check some of the fine blogs listed in the blogroll over to your right if you’re looking for interesting reading material.

I came down with something yesterday morning (not Swine Flu H1N1) that knocked me off my feet for the last 24 hours or so. Feeling much better now, but still backlogged with things I should have gotten done yesterday.

I’m getting comments posted on the last item at a rate of about one per minute (32 at time of writing). This would be great, except they’re all coming from the same IP address, and they’re looking more and more like spam.

They’re getting repetitive . . . and rather contradictory:

• At 1:01pm — Thanks for posting the article, was certainly a great read!
• At 1:02pm — I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!
• At 1:03pm — I like your site and wanted to know if you would be interested in exchanging blogroll links.
• At 1:04pm — I must say this is a great article i enjoyed reading it keep the good work
• At 1:06pm — I’m just getting started with my new blog. Would you want to exchange links on our blog-rolls?
• At 1:12pm — Can you tell me who did your layout? I’ve been looking for one kind of like yours. Thank you.
• At 1:14pm — Great post. I will read your posts frequently. Added you to the RSS reader.
• At 1:20pm — I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!
• At 1:26pm — I discovered your homepage by coincidence.
  Very interesting posts and well written.
  I will put your site on my blogroll.
  
• At 1:27pm — I’ve been reading along for a while now. I just wanted to drop you a comment to say keep up the good work.
• At 1:30pm — A friend of mine just emailed me one of your articles from a while back. I read that one a few more. Really enjoy your blog. Thanks

And so on . . .

I’m just letting them accumulate in the spam filter for the moment, but on the off-chance that there really is a “Jamie Holts” . . . you might want to check your machine.

Sorry for the broken page display over the last half hour or so . . . I’d miscoded a URL and it broke the sidebar template, so that the sidebar appeared in place of the main blog body at the point of the error. I think it’s fixed now.