I’m Back!
For the first time since I started The Perfect Song Web site, I’ve been down for more than a week. It was a helpless feeling. Three years worth of text, photos and recordings floating in the gray netherworld of the World Wide Web and I could get near it.
Here’s what happened. I was talking with a rep at the company that hosts my domain. Why, he asked, didn’t they have my domain name (I’ll spare the details to readers who don’t have web sites don’t care about geek speak.) I said I had it with a different server. He listed all the advantages of having them host name as well as the site. It sounded good so I began the process of going to the first server and transferring it to the latter server. I foolishly thought it would be an overnight process.
It turns out the first server waits five days to make the transfer. When I finally got a message that the transfer had been made, I still couldn’t get to my web site or this blog site. I contacted the server again. “Oh, you need to go into your account, go to this page, check these things, go back to the first page, refresh, then go to this page and check these things.”
Anyway, I’m back and it feels great to be connected again. I haven’t been sitting idly during the long wait. I’ve been reading the draft of a really fun novel written by a couple friends in their 80s. I really hope they publish it.
I’m also proofing a photo books of the last 150 years of Mansfield University where I work, and Mansfield Borough. It’s a fascinating trip. I wrote the introduction and back cover. It should be published by September.
Anyway, sorry for the absence. Drop me a note to let me know how you’ve been.