Aethereality Gallery is *GONE*

Folks, you may recall me recommending the manga art gallery at Aethereality.net as a resource for making icons, etc. I haven't been able to get into it for a couple of weeks, and I just found out why. Posted on main page of the site is this notice:

Aethereality Gallery is now closed. It is using way too much CPU resource for shared hosting that Dreamhost can no longer support.

By "resource", I'm not talking about space or bandwidth. I have plenty of those already. Unless I have $40 to shell out for private server hosting each month, which I don't, I can't bring the gallery back. Sorry.

I've told her (as have several other users) that I'd be willing to help pay for this to be back up. If anyone else has any suggestions for her, please let her know. This was an amazing resource, and it's terrible that it's gone!

Best Lunch Break of the Year!

Not only did I find Diana Wynne Jones' latest, House of Many Ways, on sale unexpectedly at the B. Dalton in Union Station, but I randomly ran into smillaraaq on the way back to the office! And of course we babbled about books and manga and fanfic, while the travelers milled about us.

:-D