Personal news update
I have been busy for the last while, in getting everything set up to run my own web hosting business.
The url for this company is http://runic-hosting.com
because of server configuration changes for this new venture, I had to re-publish the entire history of the blog.
all trackbacks to specific entries have been broken because of this. 
the change, and re-organization of the site also cost all the comments on posts.