Firstly, I would like to apologise for my site being unavailable for the past twenty hours. This is purely down to the incompetent idiots, called Portland. I will come to them, shortly. For now, let me begin at the beginning. While working late, the office falls into an eerie silence, with only the noise of my typing, keeping me company. I watched, with envious eyes, as my friends group on MSN started to fill, in contrast to my work group, which was nearly empty. A few of my friends, returning from work or the daily dosage of education (be it school, college or university) started a conversation with me, thinking I was home. Quickly, trying to explain that I was still at work, I passed over my personal web address, for them to read the latest news. I was then informed that my site was down, so I quickly checked myself and was gutted to see my site down. This is not the first time there has been substantial downtime for my site. Sure, it is a personal site, but that is not the point, I pay for quality hosting, which I was informed at the time of purchase had a 99.99% uptime rate. What makes the situation even worse, is that I was well aware my hosting was coming up for renewal. So, last Tuesday (15th March) I e-mailed Portland. (Only one contact e-mail address – can you believe it?) The e-mail was sent, I know, it is sitting in my sent items folder. I was hoping for a reply by now, a week is more than enough time. Instead, the twats pull the plug on my site, without even notifying me. Then, the cushing office hours are 9.30am until 4.30pm, what sort of adequate coverage is that? I would not have an issue with this, if their e-mail support lived up to some sort of expectation. Then, when I got through and spoke to some lady, she had the cheek to tell me that the renewal notices had already gone out? The second I received the e-mail, I paid up, thanks to my flexible Visa friend and by midday my web site was back up and running. Thank you finally, Portland. If only they knew how disabled I feel without my web site, somewhere all my dedicated fans can read all about me and find out all that has been happening in my life. I am going to put Portland on a probation period, firstly judging them on the response I receive from my letter of complaint, which should be issued later this week. Then, if service is not improved, which is high likely, I will port over to 123 Reg, which happens to host my other site (& blog) andrewtegala dot net. Sometimes, just sometimes, you have to bite the bullet and admit that good service costs money, and therefore third world quality just will not do.

How are you? I feel good, even taking into account some of the other underlying issues that I have to deal with. Amazing, that is how I would describe the way in which one conversation on MSN, opened my eyes to the error of my ways. Others had cause to have the same opinion on my ongoing dilemma but I had not seen the writing on the wall, until Sunday night. While, I have to be careful to protect my sources and the identity of my friends, I feel I owe someone a great apology and another person a great big thank you. At last I have seen the error of my ways. I know that my approach was completely flawed, but I know only because you have told me as it really is, rather than the fantasy, which I saw unfolding before my very eyes. Yet, I wonder what now? To follow the course of action you are recommending is not impossible, difficult but by all means workable. I need to find something, rather than someone else to inspire for the time being, to take my mind off things.

The world awoke on Monday to note the passing of a great man. Although, Mr. DeLorean shared the front cover of the Guardian newspaper, with his beloved DeLorean sports car, I felt a deep sense of loss at his passing. Never meeting the man, I felt touched by his dream, his vision, his ability to go against all the odds and build a car company from nothing. The car has widespread appeal and will continue to live on for another thirty years. Many things have been written and said about John, even the final sentence to his obituary points towards some his rather shady dealings, which bought him down, with his car company. Although, let me tell you now, there is more to this than meets the eye. Search around the web, there are many conspiracy articles to be read, some of which hold water, against a Conversative government lead by Marggy Thatcher. Just read an archive article from BBC News Online, gull wing for the gullible I don’t think! Dream makers are few and far between, if you consider we are all dreamers. Perhaps for a more balanced few we need to go back to the source. The story could have been very different, if the DMC-12 would have been built in Mexico or Puerto Rico.