Neil, gone? But where?

Neil A[rmstrong], from German for Beginners has vanished, or is vanishing. His web log is not responding at the moment, which may be intentional, because he has bid us his farewell:

Last night on the phone, my mother, who has obviously been playing with her new computer, mentioned "this blowging thing you go on about....". She didn't say anything specific about this blog, but that was, for me, the final warning after a series of "incidents". I've taken the blog offline, I enjoy this blogging malarky, want to carry on, but I want to do it better and that (for me) means a bit more anonymously. I will (knowledge of PHP and MySQL permitting) start a new blog, it won't be called German For Beginners (which will slice 90% off my "visitors from google" tally), and it will be under some kind of pen name in no way related to the Apollo program.

He leaves us with a challenge:

No, I'm not linking to it from here, however, I'm sure regular readers will find it eventually. Yes you will, you're mostly smart and clever.

I fear that he overestimates us. If any readers do eventually stumble upon his new blog please be sure to let me know.

I’ve been to www.iwalkedonthemoon.com but there’s nothing there.

Posted by John at January 26, 2005 01:04 PM | TrackBack