Some few of you may have had difficulties getting through to the site recently: my apologies. What's been happening is that the Pharyngula server does multiple tasks, and is sitting here in my lab where my delightfully hardworking developmental biology students have been slaving away to complete their research before the end of the term. It seems that running a surprisingly active Apache server, collecting timelapse and sometimes realtime video data, running QuickTime and iTunes, and trying to process images with Photoshop all at the same time can sometimes bring even a speedy dual-processor G5 system to its knees. Oh, yeah, and filling up the hard disk with 70GB of data is also a wee bit crippling.

I'm not planning on telling them to stop, I'm afraid. Classes end in a week, and then the server will be a little less overburdened. Patience!