I am still unable to access my website (creative-imperative.net) from home. Annoyingly, I can reach the site from work, but only the site itself. What I need is access to the control panel and FTP. Same with the tech support site: from home I can't reach it at all; from work I can bring up the page but it times out when I try to log in.

They lied to me about that DNS error. I can tell because http://creative-imperative.net/fiction/ is broken and the PHP errors show the server path name - which is not what it's supposed to be. But since I can't access the damn server, I can't get in to fix it.

I spent most of the weekend working on rebuilding the site elsewhere.

http://morganbriarwood.net is not ready yet, but I have about half of my fic uploaded and most of my artwork. Fic is frustrating; I do have backups of 'most everything but there are gaps. I'm sure there are some Highlander fics missing (Surely Learning Curve had a sixth part? And I thought I'd written more of the Secrets 'verse, too) but I can only find unfinished versions in my backup folders. I did manage to fix the last chapter of Millennium though: in the old archive for some reason the last few paragraphs got chopped; I only noticed quite recently when someone posted a review and at the time I couldn't find the missing text to finish it. So that's one piece of good news in all this.

I think there's some Stargate fic missing from my backups, too, but I've only just started going through all those. Most of my Jack/Daniel fic is crap anyway; that'll be no loss if I can't find them. I'd forgotten I pulled my fic from Area52; I haven't tried Heliopolis yet - is that even still online? A52 seems to have lost most of its authors.

I'm discovering ancient WIPs I'd completely forgotten about and some of them seem like pure crack to me now. Others, I wish I'd found time to finish.

I really, really must get a better system for backing stuff up.

Despite recent events, I still love LJ. I like the community here and I like having friends. I'm not planning to go anyplace or change the way I post here.

That said, I've had an account at JournalFen for ages that I never used, and the whole strikethrough thing did prompt me to think about backing up my LJ someplace else. Of the LJ-alternatives I've found, my favourite is Insane Journal. Greatest Journal keeps dying on me when I try to edit posts. And it has ads all over the place. DeadJournal looks...well, dead. I didn't even register there. JournalFen has a great TOS (unsurprising; I know who owns it) but their LJ software is a very old build: no tags, no S2 styles even. And I know they're currently closed to new members. Insane Journal seems to have the best features, the site seems reliable, the LJ software is up to date and it seems kind of appropriate that what LJ calls communities are known as asylums over there. (And a permanent account is just $30. With the dollar as weak as it is right now, that's the price of a movie on DVD. Peanuts.) So if for any reason the LJ powers that be decide I'm not welcome here, that's likely where I'll end up for my day-to-day blogging.

As far as fic is concerned, I've finished backing up my fic in my alternate journals. Doing this made me appreciate why some folks like to have a separate LJ for their fic. I took advantage of not having reams of other posts to go through and tidied stuff up, got all my tags and links organised and listed everything in my memories. There, not here. Here I'm sticking with my tried and tested Fanfic Master List.

I'll now try to stay organised and continue to post my fic in those other places. So if y'all want to friend me in my other homes...details below.

Me @ Insane Journal
http://morgan32.insanejournal.com/
http://morgan32.insanejournal.com/profile
http://www.insanejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=morgan32

Me @ Greatest Journal
http://morgan32.greatestjournal.com/
http://www.greatestjournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=morgan32
http://www.greatestjournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=morgan32

Me @ Journal Fen
http://www.journalfen.net/users/morgan32/
http://www.journalfen.net/userinfo.bml?user=morgan32
http://www.journalfen.net/tools/memories.bml?user=morgan32