Thanks for Your Patience

[Update:   What happened?  I discovered the extraordinary power of Digg.com.  Someone liked this post and put it on Digg, and  the entry  ended up getting 1900 diggs, even making it to Page One.  Other chatrooms in France, Spain, Japan, and elsewhere picked it up next.  I ended up getting over 50,000 hits on that one post over the course of about 4 days (by comparison, an Instalanche is usually worth between 2,500 and 3,500).  All I can say — to any of you who added “diggs” of your own — is thank you very much.  There’s no doubt that you contributed to tens of thousands more people understanding the importance of this issue.  Since I don’t see a dime from this vocation, despite the investment of many hours,  it’s nice to see it have some occasional impact.  Again, thank you.  To the new visitors, welcome and stop by regularly.]

This site is experiencing exceptionally high traffic and I fully expect it to crash a few times today.  I don’t believe it’s a hack attack; it’s just all the traffic coming in from Digg to see this post.  Bluehost has been great; I ended up on the phone with them several times, and they even upped my bandwidth a notch.  They assure me it’s not the size of the images, as I suspected.  There are just a lot of you coming in.

So … welcome!