My friend Candace's grandfather disappeared

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My friend Candace's grandfather disappeared in Cedar Falls last night. If you've seen this man, please contact the authorities. Update: He's now been found! Just got this message from Candace:

Good news! My grandfather has been found near Ft. Dodge. My parents are on their way to pick him up. Thank you for all of your thoughts, prayers and help in spreading the word. My family and I really appreciate everything you have done these past few days. Thanks again. Candace

This site is finally back

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This site is finally back up and working. The lack of updates over the last few weeks wasn't intentional, just had one of those perfect storms of technical issues that prevented Blogger from connecting to my server via FTP. My ISP decided to change IP addresses on me at the same time I was upgrading my server from Windows 2000 to 2003. I have a static IP, but they split up my cable node, so I had to update. This left me with several different variables to rule out before I could track down the problem, and I finally just gave up, built a new server, and changed my whole network topography at home, but the result is I'm back online, with a much faster server than I had before. I've got a few kinks to iron out in my web site still, but at least the weblog is working!

This site was down for

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This site was down for the last few days because my ISP was changing stuff around, giving me a new IP. I got switched over to the new IP just fine, but they forgot to unblock my WWW and FTP ports, so it took a bit to get it all working. I spent all of last week in Windows Server 2003 training, which was intense, but I learned quite a bit of new information and refined my ActiveDirectory skills somewhat. More on that later, I just finished watching Gangs of New York, which is 3 hours long, and now I have to pee.