I finally figured out how to resolve the lingering Blogos issues, which were both a blank page at http://www.semanticbible.com/blogos/ (the version without www has been working for a while), and a number of blog posts that had gone AWOL. The culprit was a misfunctioning WordPress plug-in. When i had the “missing post” problem with something that was only a new draft, i started to suspect the problem wasn’t my hosting service. So i just went through the post and removed different pieces until i found the one whose absence made things normal again, and then played “one of these things is not like the other” until i figured out what the culprit was. For reasons i don’t understand, that fixed the blank home page too.
So at this point, i think all the recent wreckage caused by Lunarpages has been cleaned up (but i’m still upset with them for breaking it in the first place, and very slow response to critical problems). If you have problems with either SemanticBible or Blogos, please let me know.
Trust in our information systems is a fragile thing: once something goes broken, i naturally tend to assume (sometimes only unconsciously) that other new brokenness is related. Alas, brokenness can be as complex as everything else in life, and i have to question my assumptions about it (as everywhere else) to avoid getting stuck. It’s funny how often that questioning process becomes the portal to improvement.