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I ended my last post — twelve years ago this month — with a joke: If the next time you see me and all my hair has turned grey and fallen out you will know why. Some of the hairs went grey. Some of it left entirely. I want the record to show that I called it. What I did not call was the twelve-year gap between that post and this one. I never sat down and decided to stop writing. There was just always something more urgent than the blog, and then one day I looked up and the “something more urgent” had lasted over a decade. That is how these things go. Nobody announces a hiatus. You just get busy, and the getting-busy compounds. ...

Recently I decided it was important to get away from Google App Engine as my CDN, mostly because I have encountered personally and have been told that many internal corporate networks are blocking Google App Engine IP’s. And since most of my content posted to this blog is relevant to developers, who typically work in the corporate world, I decided to make the move. And boy am I glad I did. ...