The change in blog technology was necessitated by my move of QuickTopic to a new dedicated server (running FreeBSD instead of Linux). Doing this move, I was reminded why I love doing web work: sometimes it has the tense thrill of doing a live performance. I had a sustained-near-panic sensation when I put up the 'back soon' page at the busy site and went through a series of planned but unrehearsed moves to transfer a large intricate structure. As always, there were glitches that were unplanned for that required immediate decisions and quick makeshift scripting.

So now it's amazingly quiet. No "what happened to my 500 messages?" emails, thankfully. Whew.