From 10:40am to 12:00pm on October 26, 2009, TIB experienced an outage that prevented the site from being accessible. Obviously, that has been fixed.

On the evening of September 7, 2009, the cjcs.com domain was taken offline–without warning–by its web host. September 8 saw me sign on with a different web host.

Seems my web host got hit by what they describe as a large DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack from multiple IP ranges. This started around 6pm MDT and lasted nearly twelve hours. I apologize for your frustration in trying to reach the site. I share your frustration

My apologies for this site being unavailable for at least 10 hours on June 28, 2009. A critical file on the T I B site which should never get mangled somehow got mangled. It happened at the worst possible time: right after I’d stopped personally monitoring the site for the day (hey, even I have to sleep at some point).

I’ve installed the upgrade to Wordpress 2.8
I don’t think anything broke except for the ratings plugin — which I had to deactivate for now. If something doesn’t work now that you noticed (or think) worked before, please send me a message and I’ll look into it.

I’m testing out a new Amazon widget that isn’t completely playing nice on this site. I’m leaving it run so that Amazon can take a look at the problem and get back to me.
My apologies for the aesthetic snarkiness.

For those wanting to find me on Twitter, I’ve changed my Twitter username.

The TTSCC Season 3 fanfic project is underway. Please check out the forum for details. If you want to participate (even if you can’t write more than a tweet) check it out and sign up if you are interested. Note: if you are a member of this site you’ll see more forums (including some development [...]

I thought it was time to upgrade the site a bit.
When I first launched this revamped blog almost 6 months ago, aesthetics took a back seat to getting everything else working. In that time I’ve found things that worked, didn’t work, that I liked and didn’t like. The “didn’t work” and “didn’t like” bits were [...]

Well…that took a while.
The upgrade to version 2.7 of WordPress created a little bit of a mess for many of us serving RSS feeds. A blank line here, a wonky plug-in there…so many things to go wrong.
For this blog, it was one option in the YARPP (Yet Another Related Posts Plugin v2.1.6) plugin. Once I [...]