October Status Blog.

I haven’t been on much lately, sorry about that, but my inattention has at least proven that the CFB concept works.  I’ve been out of town (and the country) for most of the last month.  During that time I checked the feed once in a while, but I don’t think I ever had to repost a tweet manually until after I returned home this week.  Twaitter handled the load admirably during my long period of inattention and the updates kept coming regularly, right on schedule.

This week Twaitter has had a few hiccups, for instance just now when I had to manually post today’s 12PM update.  But usually those problems resolve on their own after a few hours.  Other than this, there’s not much to report.

We’re now into the reign of Zeno, and just today we’re covering the “fall” of Rome (that being the abdication of Romulus Augustus, the last Roman emperor, in September 476).  This brings us into an exciting period in Byzantine history, which is the time that Byzantium began to stand alone as its own empire and not merely a continuation of Rome as it had been.  That means that very soon we’ll be beginning the reign of Justinian, who is one of the giants of Byzantine history and a very fascinating figure in his own right.

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