And From the Shadows of Confusion

So we’ve been out a little while, huh? Whelp, the most unexpected things tend to happen at the most inopportune times. However, we’re back! As rumors flourish about the web that we gave up or that the website was cracked, we still press-on. So what happened?

No, as popular as it might be to believe, we were not compromised. We did, however, fail prey to the insidious forces of data corruption.

It seems we ran into a small problem with our current hosting platform provider, graciously provided by CodeCircus, Ltd. (reference: http://www.codecircus.co.uk) out of the United Kingdom. Our specific server was getting a slight software/build overhaul by one of their System Engineers, when somehow inadvertently the site itself was wiped by some odd glitch in the backup/transfer process - this slightly corrupted the database tables and skewed the permissions of the directory and/or sandbox(jail) we run in (we’re still trying to piece that one together).

So to say, we’ve been down for about a month after performing an indepth forensic analysis of the logs, traffic and services. You may notice that the site now runs slightly faster and we’re operating on the fringe of bleeding edge w/ WordPress’ most current offering(s).

We have an interface change coming soon, something we’ve been working on off-and-on for a few months in-between our daily moments in life, career and family.

We want to thank you for being such soldiers and awaiting our official return and reclamation in the publishing circus known as the Internet. Keep reading!

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