NaNo progress halted

No, not the writing of the novel. I refer to the absence of the nifty NaNoWriMo Progress Meter that once sat proudly on the right sidebar.

Unfortunately, the clever geezer who made the progress meter, Jeff Lee, was having severe bandwidth problems on account of his clever word counting gizmo proving so popular with NaNo challengers. His web hosting provider demanded more money and Jeff quite reasonably decided that, as he had provided the gizmo for free and was seeing no return from it, he would have to remove the progress meter and all the user accounts from his server rather than forking out for more bandwidth.

A great shame but perfectly understandable.

This does mean that any Guardian readers who read about my natty progress meter and come here to take a look are only going to see a rather less impressive bunch of big, grey, static numbers.

Sorry about that.