I'd like to have my website back, please

[julesjones]

 My official website is currently returning a database error. Apparently my webhost bought a new server and is having fun bug-hunting. Oh joy. I suppose I could ask him to return it to the old handcoded and handloaded by FTP front page rather than the SQL version, as that still exists behind the Shiny, and indeed still has many pages not yet transferred to the SQL version, which task is how I discovered yesterday that the database version is down. I'm not sure I can be bothered, because it's not as if it gets many hits these days and with any luck it will be fixed sooner than I can remember how to use an FTP client, or indeed where I put my ftp client. One would never think that I used to do this stuff for fun, but that was another country, and besides the wench is dead; or at least not actively writing at the moment.

It's not as if I'm even writing much on my DreamWidth these days. I was going through past entries yesterday, and it's extremely obvious when my brain got fried and I couldn't look at a full size screen anymore. I'm doing a lot better now, but I've got out of the habit of sharing my thoughts in longer form than Twitter, and I don't have any writing related thoughts to share because I'm not currently writing myself and I'm also not keeping up with industry gossip, see "big screens make my brain hurt". But I do have at least one book review written but not yet posted, so I'd better do that next.