My server admin finally fixed the email system. However, the blog went down because of it. After making whatever mods he needed to do, the admin sent in a command to reboot the server – it never came back up. I had to call my data center to ask them to hit the server power switch. NetNation, my ISP, took their own sweet time to get the server restarted. I wasn’t happy with that at all.
If you sent me an email in the past few days, please send it again. Chances are I didn’t get it. Having no email was almost as bad as having no internet. I expect to see tons of spam/email every time I check my Outlook. It’s very sobering to see nothing there. Now that things are back to normal, I feel so much better.
A big shout out goes to Life Hacker for having The TechZone in their screen shot with this post. Thanks a lot guys! I see the story made the Digg front page too. Good work! 
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