Just read the Wikipedia page on weblogs.com. I didn’t “decide” to shut down the site in 2004. The management of UserLand at the time transfered the domain to one of my two servers at a local Boston-area hosting service, without telling me they were doing it. It knocked the server off the air. That was what caused the outage. It took a few days to get it back online. The secret — we converted the site to PHP and it ran much better. No one decided anything. #