Catastrophic DNS problems  

In case you haven't noticed, locussolus.com has been experiencing some technical difficulties, ie it's been out of commission for about four days. It's a long story, but basically I recently changed hosting services and got some bad advice from Jace Herring, the proprietor of Bloghosts (my new host) about when it would be OK to cancel my old service. Meanwhile Jace (who's the only one handling their support, evidently) fell down some stairs and impaled his head on a pushpin, so it took a little longer than usual to get the mess straightened out. On the bright side, I now know more than I ever expected to about DNS, and the site is back up much sooner than I thought, given the scope of the problem. Too bad for you, idle reader!