No, it's much more mundane than that: I unfortunately forgot to renew my domain hosting services in a timely manner, and didn't notice until the domain was turned off. And since getting it turned back on would require calling Scotland at eight in the morning, I eventually decided to let Mannersism.net just drop dead.
This blog will continue, however. I just have to reword the codes for the graphics... hell, maybe I'll just redesign the whole thing. I have a new domain host, and a new domain name (www.robertmanners.com) and everything will be back up and running fairly soon.
In the meantime, since Blogger's image hosting works just fine, here's something to keep you amused:
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