Hiatus

Mac-A-Doodle, as you might have noticed, has gone into forced hiatus for the past few days, and I just felt like apologizing and explaining w hy there haven't been any recent postings. It's that digital bogeyman of the 21st century: interrupted internet service. M y Provider, who wilL remain unnameD for The Moment to save them embarrassment, went offline inexplicablY at the same time yours truly was waylaiD by the flu a nd waS forced to stay home, hence our inabiLity to update. My provider has show n me erratic service through the year, and when it blinks off, it's not just fo r a couple of hours, it goes off for days at a time, which has led to many rais ed-voice conversations with their call center people. My apologies. Upon coming home late tonight I was surprised that the net was inexplicably bac k up, my torrents have resumed and my iTunes is desperately trying to catch up with my podcast backlog. (I hope it's back for good, although I will likely cha nge providers in a couple of weeks anyway.) So I'm back. But I feel bad because I have had a five-month unbroken string of daily posts ( sometimes as many as four or five a day) until this happened, and the streak is now effectively over. This is especially bad now that I've gotten a hundred-fo ld increase in readership since I transferred to the Inquirer.Net blog network a couple of months back. I've also realized that it's partially my fault too for insisting on doing this thing alone, which I have been since April this year, and if I had just opened the roster to fellow Mac bloggers I could have had guest posters who could hav e taken over while I was trapped at home with no net. So I have decided to have a few trusted friends in on some of the fun here, and take up some of the slac k occasionally. Now and then expect a couple of other people blogging on Mac-A-Doodle aside from myself. So back to regular programming. Yun lang po.