I’ll be out of town visiting family for the next week, so blog updates (if any) will be less frequent, and I’ll be slower to answer e-mails. I made sure to cook a pot of Chicken and Andouille gumbo for Mr. Phae before I left, so he shouldn’t starve while I’m gone. 
Don’t forget to send in your Arbor Day pictures!
You might experience some downtime for Resto4Life.com over the next couple of days as I’m in the process of transferring web hosts. Until the DNS servers propagate the new address, you might reach a maintenance page instead of the home page (although if you’re reading this via the homepage, you’re seeing the new version). Hopefully this transfer should eliminate all the performance issues R4L and Blog Azeroth have been experiencing since we signed up with Nightmarehost! I’ve already noticed a big speed difference browsing the BA forums, and images seem to load much faster on Resto4Life.
P.S. Many thanks to BigRedKitty for his recommendation on the new web host! We (Toothy and me) like it already. 
Below is a snapshot of what Resto4Life looks like in the two most mainstream browsers, Internet Explorer and Firefox. As you can see, the two versions look pretty different with the IE version showing my site contents centered and with a cute little Tree of Life waggling his leafy hand at visitors. The Firefox version is flush against the left side of the screen and does not have the aforementioned cute tree. This is a CSS issue that I’ve spent hours trying to resolve, and I’ve finally decided to throw my hands up and ask for help from visitors.
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If there are any CSS-experienced gurus out there who think they can help, I’d greatly appreciate if you could either respond here or contact me via the site’s contact form or by e-mailing me at resto4life@
.com. I have a sandbox version of the site that I can give you access to if you think you can help!
Thanks, everyone!
As you may have noticed, Resto4Life has been experiencing some pretty serious slowdowns and downtime over the past week. More specifically, the cluster where my site is hosted has a borked file server, affecting not only web sites but related e-mail. Ostensibly, they’re trying to move sites from the old server to a new one and adding a third file server to help distribute the load more evenly. I can only imagine the hell in which their tech-guys are living trying to get things up and running again, having been through something similar last week. But while I’m sympathetic, it doesn’t help my readership any! I hope you can bear with me while they get things straightened out. In the mean time, why don’t you visit, read, and subscribe to one of the following great sites:
Resto4Life turns one-year-old today tomorrow (I’m a bad sapling and couldn’t wait)! It feels like just a few weeks ago that I first created the blogger incarnation of this site, kicking things off with an article on what I then felt was one of my best-kept secrets: Aggro-Reducing Trinkets. I was reminiscing with Valenna about it earlier this week, asking him what he thought when I told him about my intended hobby. He responded, "I remember thinking, ‘Oh great, another project she’s going to suck me into!’" And how!
In celebration of this occasion, I’ve made YOU a present: an official Resto4Life, JavaScript-action, 40-yard range mana regeneration calculator! (Don’t shoot your eye out!) It includes all sorts of settings like fight length, the Bangle of Endless Blessings, Innervate, and Intensity and should hopefully make rebalancing your items and gems a little less painful in 2.4.
