This is just to let everyone know that we are doing various things behind the Euro curtain right now: fiddling with our MovableType installation, evaluating a new design, and so forth. Most of it takes place in the dead of night, Central European Time. If you’re reading us in the late afternoon or early evening from the US west coast, you might notice, but we hope there are no interruptions.

Also, if you’re getting errors when you view any of our pages, or comments, please let us know in the comments to this entry. Thanks.

Vicenta, Edward, Tobias, and David (from left to right)Some light Friday afternoon reading, and some faces you may not have seen yet. A month ago, almost exactly two years after the day that will live in infamy, the first afoe meet-up took place in Stockholm.

Despite the fact that not everyone in the fistful could make it to the Swedish capital, it was a great opportunity to discuss the past, present, and future of Europe, the world, blogs in general and afoe in particular. But above all, it was great to finally meet some of the people with whom so many emails were exchanged – a valuable reminder that the blogosphere can not only lead to a meeting of minds, but, in some cases, also to a meeting of entire people.

Gentle readers,

you may have noticed that afoe was down for a couple of hours on Saturday. This was due to an exceptional and extensive network hardware failure in our provider’s data centre. There have been no changes to our URL configuration.

We don’t do “memes” here at fistful, but this is too cool an idea to pass up. Today apparently is Lurker day, which means readers who never or rarely make comments tell us who they are, where the’re from and what they like (or don’t like) about fistful, etc.

Chris Clarke’s idea, via CT.

…OK, yesterday, but we do things our own way here in Europe.

Gentle readers,

we have moved the complete afoe installation to another host over the weekend. As updating nameservers can take up to 72 hours, some readers might experience accessibility problems until Wednesday morning.

As you’re reading this, you’re lucky and not among them.

Gentle readers,

due to ongoing heavy server engineering there is an increased possibilty that afoe will not be accessible for a limited amount of time on Sunday, September 4, 2005.

Today is our second anniversary.

And the leavin’ is easy.
Fish are jumpin’
Folks gotta fly.

Which, with apologies to Gershwin, is just to say that posting is likely to be much slower for the next few weeks.

Still problems but we should be able to see our posts and you be able to see your comments right away (though it takes a second longer than usual.)

…even slower. Expect various errors as we try various things.