When nothing seems to go right

If any friends had visited my site in the past few weeks, you may have found that it was totally dead. As in, not even operational, a blank white screen. I hadn’t noticed right away, but I had initially suspected it was CMS auto-upgrade problem. When I found it wasn’t going to fix itself I didn’t really care about making an effort to bring it back online. Why? Let me go into it.

I ordered a tablet, a Notion Ink Adam back in December. And as luck would have it, it still hasn’t arrived. It’s getting on 4 months now and I still don’t have it. It is expected to arrive soon. Apparently my order and many others (if you choose to believe the company) ran into about every possible roadblock possible on the way through production and shipping. And when my site went down it was just laughable. I can’t really write about tablets effectively without owning one can I? I have experience with readers and tablets sure, but not a long term experience. And it made sense that why not go into hibernation mode so I can come back energized.

The ironic thing is the Notion Ink Adam was the reason I started this blog in the first place. Not enough people knew about tablets that were maybe better than the mainstream popular ones. I was so excited about this coming storm of tablets that I wanted to share my research with people.

But a couple days ago it started bugging me that my site had been broken for so long. Turns out it was a failure of some service by my webhost that after an IP update, something didn’t push. After a helpdesk email and just recopying files, I’m back online. I aim to continue to provide a few news posts. I can’t compete with some of the other bloggers. When I see a couple of them crank out 2-3 stories a day I know that I just don’t have the attention span. But I’ll try to find shortcuts so I can share more frequently. I do update my twitter feed quite often so follow @readerwar and I promise you’ll get something out of that.

Last thing I want to mention. I’ve found that waiting for the tablet so long it was actually pretty fun to go back to the library and get a few books. After obsessing over an electronic device the entire winter, it was pretty fun to put it behind me for a while and just enjoy the spring. Though I can see that I will have a lot of fun with tablets, I don’t get too crazy about them. It’s almost as if I’ve already had it and the luster has worn off. I still am interested in how this will turn out, but I feel a bit stronger for phasing out and back into this subject. Seems healthy actually.

Signing off on this post. Be back soon(er).