Right about now, the “signal” from my main hosting server is interrupted someplace between my ISP and the server farm, and it’s being dropped instead of re-routing. In layman’s terms, the phone line is frayed between here and there — and sadly, it’s not frayed in the place that I control.
I can’t FTP, collect email or access the sites I run without hideous proxy contortions. I have people on it, but if you’ve tried to reach me, that’s what’s up.

Watch this space.

-Elaine

DEC 3, morning — update

Everything seems to be  righted. A firewall at the server end had gone a bit rogue. It’s been soundly thumped, and should behave slightly better hereafter.