Well, I managed to get the blog back up -- now that my readership has hit zero. I haven't posted in 6 months and its been down for 3. That's a pretty impressive record. Hopefully most other parts of my life are in better shape.

The short version of why it was down was that my ISP moved to partial trust for security reasons and dasBlog requires full trust. They gave me lots of warning and I didn't do anything (read:my fault). I've since moved to thinkjot, which is a derivative version of dasBlog that fixes exactly those partial trust problems. Thanks go to the folks at thinkJot.

In the past six months, I've also moved to a new (to me) house and had a second child. It also turns out that my job is probably changing a fair bit (but in a good way and still on the CLR team). Excuses, excuses ...

Updated: This post in a .Net forum is awesome. If you call having a second child with lots of laziness and procrastination added in "abducted by aliens", then "yes".