So long farewell?

Wow. I heard on the rumour mill that all may not be well at Blipcentral, but chose to be optimistic about the whole thing.
Unfortunately it looks like those fears were confirmed at lunchtime. 
So, with the silence from the top I've managed to get tpd's python working on my machine. It's happily chugging through all my entries pulling down images and the text!

I am hopeful for things to carry on going, but I'll continue this just in case AWS (or the liquidator) pulls the hosting plug and it goes into darkness.