R.I.P. Bortino

R.I.P. Bortino, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

I pulled the plug on http://www.concentric.net/~bbortin yesterday. I've changed to Earthlink for my ISP, and maintaining the Concentric account for a website that I hardly ever use just didn't make sense.

I'll put something like bortino up somewhere else eventually. When I built the old site, I didn't heve a clue as to what I was doing, so it was held together with baling wire and chewing gum, and just porting it over to a new address is out of the question. It was time for a rebuild anyway.

This is the first time in five and a half years that I haven't had a website, and it feels kind of strange, like I'm walking around with my fly open or wearing a cloisonne G.O.P. lapel pin or something. And a little bit blue.