...or if you were having trouble and want to know why, here's how someone who knows better than me (Sr. Project Manager for Digital Products Dan Pacheco):

If you're  heard from people who can't get to Bakersfield.com and the People pages, but you can, please pass this on to them.

We made some changes yesterday on the back-end systems that run these pages. They're all positive changes, but because of the way "The Internet" works, some people have had trouble getting to the site.

So why is this happening? It's because yesterday we moved the site to a newer, bigger, faster Web server. After we did that, we had to tell "The Internet" to send anybody looking for the site on the old server to go the new server.

As cool as the Internet is, it's also very decentralized. When we tell "it" to send people to a new server, what happens is that millions and millions of computers all over the world have to tell each other what the new address is. It's like one big telephone tree where one person tells someone, and that person tells someone else, and that person tells someone else until everyone has the same information.

Depending on where your internet service provider is on that phone tree, it can get the new info instantly -- or in some cases it can take as much as 48 hours! Yeah, that stinks. We didn't invent that crazy system, and if there was any other way of going about this, believe me we would have pursued it.

We made that change at 4 a.m. PST yesterday, so some people may continue having problems until as late as 4 a.m. PST tomorrow (Saturday, Feb. 3).

Some have found that things get reset if your restart your modem, if you're using broadband.  The development team is working on a server-side workaround as we speak, and we apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced.  As usual, please contact me with any specific problems, issues or suggestions.