Lest any Didactic followers find this...

I somehow doubt this will be read by anyone who wanted to view my primary blog at didactic.me but in any case, there's been a disc crash at the server end of things apparently.  Their support is not 24/7 and they are likely skimping on support staff, but they are digging aroung for the backup and maybe they'll be in touch tomorrow.

Whenever they do my friendly hosting guy will swing into action and use the backups to populate a new server he is directly in control of at a data centre he used to work at and we will be back in business.  My most optimistic guess is for tomorrow afternoon/evening (GMT)  and my most pesimistic is before the weekend.

Worst case scenario would be there's no backup and I have to rebuild my sites from my own files, but fortunately I have a database backup in the new release format.  Unfortunately it is from the fourth of January, so it misses a post or two.  I'm off to see if the Google cache and a little pasting can help me salvage that, anticipating disaster....