Some folks may have noticed a lack of service for the last few days. This was due to a simultaneous disk failure on the old server*. Happily, a new shrink wrapped server has been installed and most of the content is now back, with a few updates over the forthcoming days.

Comments (and comment pages) appear to be working again now, as does the handy “related articles” code, which gives pointers to likely stories of interest.

*Technically minded folk may raise an eyebrow that this is yet another tale of a twin disk RAID1 setup where both disks have visited kaputsville at the same time.