If you’ve been perusing the blogosphere yesterday and today, you might have noticed that lots and lots of people are not happy with the recent Blogger changes. To them, I say: bummer. Roll your own? I’d be happy to donate my code to someone willing to set up a php/MySQL blog. But I digress.

If you were perusing the blogosphere today and happened to stop by this site (fat chance) you might have noticed that, for most of the day, it wasn’t working. This is no fault of my code or database, however. It was the fault of my inability to get off my ass, check my email often enough, and read my web service provider’s notification that:

If you do not wish to renew your hosting package, you must verify that your Package's status is set to 'non-renew' in the Member Operations area; otherwise we will automatically renew your package on the renewal date.

My account was not set to ‘renew’ and nothing was renewed. I woke up today to check out what action had gone down on my site overnight and found that quite a bit of action had gone down. The damn thing was gone. I flipped out and sent a frantic email to the provider. The site showed up at around 4 pm. Kudos to them for quickly getting things up and running again. Shame on me for neglecting my site. I learned my lesson.