Sorry for the Interruption

Several regular readers have called to express concern over their
inability to connect up to the Dowbrigade News over the past 24 hours
(thanks for the call, Mom). In fact, the entire blogging host server
at the Harvard Law School was off-line due to a major malfunction, but
Dave Winer and his ETs (Emergency Technicians) managed to save all the
data and get us up and running again this morning.

The result, however, was that yesterday, for the first time since the
debut edition of the Dowbrigade News appeared on June
18, 2003, nearly
nine months ago, that we did not post a single article. Although we realize
it was pure vanity, we took pride in our record of constancy, including
one dark and snowy night in December when we forced Dave
to take a detour off
of I-93 returning from a Blogging of the candidates in New Hampshire, so
that we could get to our computer and file before the magic moment of midnight.  Our
first and
only post that day was at 11:59:14.

But what’s the sense of rehashing the past, other than crying over spilt
milk and recycling tired cliches. Actually, it’s quite liberating not
to have the burden of that unbroken string of 200+ days hanging around
my neck like a blogging
albatross.  So we missed a day.  So what? It’s not the end
of the world, and there’s just twice as much to blog today.

Last week Dave accused us, facetiously we hope, of not liking our
blog, because we sometimes complain of feeling under-endowed in the comments
department. Let us set the record straight.  We
LOVE our blog. It is the greatest thing to happen to us since Norma Yvonne.
It has
literally
changed
our life and given us a voice, the mere sound of which is enough for this
frustrated writer, whether anyone else is listening or not.

Thanks for coming back.