Well, as many of you may have noticed, we have a pretty large gap in the posts on this blog, lasting throughout the entire summer. Sometime in the latter part of April, a “glitch” developed on the WordPress software we were using. This bug created a problem where every blog post we created was given a date of January 1, 1980 at 12:00 midnight. So, for more than 45 days, I made blog posts, thinking all was well, only to later find out about the date problem from a customer. I didn’t notice it myself, because I didn’t affect how I view the site as an administrator.
Cheap internet hosting has its benefits, but it also has its problems. This blog was a “free install” from a very inexpensive web hosting operation. They unfortunately offer no support for WordPress problems, and while there is a ton of public information about WordPress, I was unable to develop a fix until about a month ago. Anyway, I eventually made a copy of all of the blog posts that had been made, erased the entire software from the server, then installed a “supported” copy of WordPress. I then did the copy and paste routine to replace all of the posts. For some reason, I couldn’t recall or copy any of the posts dated January 1, 1980. No big loss….but I would have liked to restore everything.

We will be again making regular posts to the blog. Thanks to all of you that read.

Phil Ellis

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