And so yesterday, after a long hard day in meetings and fighting my way through swathes of urgent email, it was time to attend to my blog. I clicked on the bookmark, and waited while the browser attempted to resolve the host.
"Networking problem", the error message reported. I decided that perhaps blog neglect was not as severe as child neglect, and went off to shrug on the parenting role.
But only briefly. At home, the discomfort of an email inbox bursting with urgent, unread mail prompted me to crank up the computer and go online. And once online, my conscience prickled me - my blog! I clicked the bookmark.... time out!
In my inbox was a mail from ICTS announcing that they'd disconnected the link connecting the chunk of the universe that contained the Blog server, because of a rogue DHCP server sowing chaos and destruction. Curses!
Fortunately the rogue was traced, neutralised, and the link restored, during the course of the morning. The blogspot was back. The tamagotchi, in suspended animation, came back to life and demanded attention. And, as you can see, received it.