Below The Beltway

Thanks to a spike in traffic, and what can only be called growing pains here at Below The Beltway, we were pretty much down for several hours today.
Apologies.

In the middle of doing some theme editing last night, I made a change that removed the template code that displays the post title at the top of the post, instead you’ll now see it at the top of your browser.
I’m actually in the middle of a theme change which should be done this [...]

It looks like we continued to have server issues last night and into this morning so the site has either been slow, or just non-existent for many people.
We are back now, but there still may be stability issues so be patient.

Looks like the blog was done down for a few hours this afternoon.
We’re back now, though

Yes, I’m still here. Of course, you’d know that if you followed my Twitter feed.
Regular, or at least semi-regular, blogging to resume next week.
Coincidentally, this happens to be the 12,000th published post here at Below The Beltway.

Despite my plans, I didn’t manage to get back into the blogging groove this month and with Christmas and New Year’s coming up there’s no point in trying to get back in the game while everyone’s out of town.
So, Merry Christmas everyone and I’ll be back sometime next year, or, you know, whenever.

Circumstances beyond my control have led me to cut back severely on blogging over the past few weeks.
I hope to be back up to normal next week, although that probably won’t last for long since I usually take the last two weeks of December off completely.
My apologies to the 3 or 4 of you [...]

This will be the only post of the day, and likely the last until sometime on Saturday or Sunday, so Happy Thanksgiving everyone. In case you’re interested, my wine recommendations from a few years ago still stand, so go out, buy some, and enjoy.
In the meantime, courtesy of one of my fellow Liberty Papers bloggers, [...]

I was a guest on this week’s United Liberty podcast:
On November 16th, the national debt for our nation broke the $12 trillion dollar mark.  Jason, Brett and Doug had joked on Twitter about getting together to “celebrate” this accomplishment by having a few drinks.  Since geography prevented us from meeting together in a physical location, we [...]

Below The Beltway has been nominated in the  ‘Best Political Blog’ category in the 2009 Weblog Awards. You can vote for the nomination here.
While you’re there, be sure to check out the other categories, there plenty of great blogs, and great bloggers, nominated.