Temporary Technical Difficulties

With our upcoming Excellent Adventure to Italy now less than two months away, you’d think that I would have more to think about than an email problem. But is was just that kind of problem that I spent about 10 hours on last weekend. The company that hosts this web site somehow lost all of our email information so Barb and I had no email access for about two days. Under normal circumstances, this would fall under the category of a minor nuisance but being so close to our departure date, this all got me thinking about something. As I was planning on posting all of my Excellent Adventure updates on our trip to this web site (instead of emailing them as in previous years), a system problem on my web site while I’m out of the country will become a major problem.

To try and mitigate this risk, I’ve already started the ball rolling on having someone become a backup administrator who might be able to help deal with any web site problems while I’m away.

It’s true that I can post all of the Excellent Adventure episodes when I get back home but many people have told me that reading the new postings as they happen is part of the thrill.

Baden