So, how have you been? Did you have a good summer? Did you miss me?
Sorry to have been out of touch. I did a lot of traveling on family business, and stayed busy seeing shows and filing stories online. But my WWW presence has been scuttled on a few ends and you might have thought I had been dragged to the UpsideDown. To recap:
Over at www.whatchagonnaplay.com, there’s good news and bad news.
The bad news: The site’s original web host stopped servicing personal sites earlier this year, so anyone who clicked over to see new set lists and concert photos got the dreaded 404 error message. I had to find a new site host and reload all my files (over 5,000 items!) to the new service.
The good news: I have a new host and am now tackling that reloading process, so the site is back up and running. There are, however, still issues, including many dead-end links. The photo galleries are gone, and where there were once links to my examiner.com reviews, those archives have been scrubbed and all those links now lead to a single URL, the home page of AXS.com.
How did that happen? More electronic mayhem. Examiner.com ceased publication, also this summer, and gave contributors only about a week’s notice before dumping all its stories. I had written about 200 articles for the site over the last five years and, though I grabbed as many links as I could, thinking they would remain accessible, the company changed them all over to the home page of its sister site, AXS.com. I also scrambled to grab PDFs and screen shots of some of my favorite articles but didn’t get them all. Alas, even those I was able to get do not include the original slideshows which usually had between 10-20 concert photos.
But you can still find proof that I love music and write about it.
In late 2014, I started writing for AXS.com (although I preferred doing examiner stories) and have about 20 stories on that site that are still visible.
Happily, The Washington Post archives still offer links to much of the work I did for them in the years when I was writing biweekly columns on arts events (mostly concerts) for two different local sections. Unhappily, I am having trouble connecting to my master list of clickable links that was featured on an older version of CPF.
AAARGH. I could use an IT department. But I’m learning as I go and will be working to bring all the goodies up to date.
So, that’s why I’ve been out of sight/site for awhile. Glad to back and more to come!
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