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 why there haven’t been any recent postings.

It’s that digital bogeyman of the 21st century: interrupted internet service. My 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 and waS forced to stay home, hence our inabiLity to update. My provider has shown me erratic service through the year, and when it blinks off, it’s not just for a couple of hours, it goes off for days at a time, which has led to many raised-voice conversations with their call center people.

My apologies.

Upon coming home late tonight I was surprised that the net was inexplicably back 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 change 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-fold 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 have 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 slack 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.