Apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by recent issues with absoluteblog.net and email. I believe these are now resolved and things will be better than ever going forward.

After weeks of troubleshooting - ruling out all my personal computers and routers - I figured out that some malware must have got into my remotely hosted Wordpress site. The blog URL would regularly bring up a spam site claiming to be absoluteblog.net instead of my real blog! It was very frustrating and felt like a personal attack. (It seems the virus was poisoning the DNS translation tables, for all you techies out there).

I have taken the opportunity to move the whole thing to a new platform which is completely integrated with my website and online gallery. Everything is now in one place! Yay! I think it looks a little nicer, and is easier to read, too. You may be reading it right now! :) You don't need to change your bookmarks (absoluteblog.net or absoluteblank.com/blog - same thing! - or just go to the website and click on "blog"). Let me know what you think.

Lastly, if any email to me bounced recently, it's because a spammer was apparently using a server that hosts one of my mail accounts, so everyone who's email was on that server got blocked when the entire server was blacklisted. I believe it's fixed now, but just in case, I'm routing my mail a different way - so hopefully no more bounces.

May the technology gods be always on your side...