Well, I’ve finally recovered the complete contents of my blog. I’d intended to do so for quite a while, so why don’t I feel more excited about it? I guess bevause it doesn’t amount to much: maybe the first ten posts on my original Blogger blog (somehow still online though I haven’t posted there since 2003!), which were ported over but somehow got lost along the way, have been reintroduced to the database, along with a ton of old creative writing stuff I long ago put up on the blog, then decided to take down and partially move over to my Stuff to …

UPDATE (later the same day): In addition to the below, may also see old posts being accidentally republished as new ones. I’m clearing out a few old plugins and that means removing some stuff from a few posts, and republishing them. I’ll try make sure things are in the right time settings, but it may get borked a little here and there, temporarily. ORIGINAL POST: Despite no change in the number of visitors coming to my site, and despite having a cache enabled and stuff like that, I am experiencing a much higher server load at the moment. I’ve been …

I spent the weekend, off-and-on, working on the theme for this site. I’m not completely happy with the result —  there are a few things I need to hammer out — but I feel like I’ve spruced up the place adequately to take down the Maintenance sign and let the site be open to the public again. While I was at it, I reorganized some of the material here. I’ve implemented redirects for pages I removed or combined, and they should be working–the pages I had up for every musical project available for download are now all on the Music …