Online and doing well. Both of us. But I assume you mean the lack of updates. This was mainly due to me finishing up my studies and getting a job. I could've easily updated it somewhere in between I guess, but after a while you look at your mailbox labeled "faq 2do" and you see the number of reminders you sent yourself and you just give up sorta. I did make a new layout once and even started learning some php to make a database-driven site but it kept me from doing what really needed to be done: update.
Then why the sudden full overhaul?
I have to completely attribute that to a FAQ-team member, Jocelyn. One day she decided to take the project out of my hands and do something with it, because it was just lying there dying. And I let her. I think the result turned out better than I could've dreamed. Sure, we still don't have an easy-to-maintain database, but at least we have a working, updated, pretty site now. I love Jocelyn eternally for reviving my baby.
How did you come up with the idea for a FAQ anyhow? When did you start working on it?
Ooph. Let's see. Must've been back in 1998. I posted a lot to the Björk newsgroup [alt.music.bjork] and I started noticing a lot of the noobs kept posting the same stupid and rather obvious questions. Like "Is it true she made an album in 1977?" or "Did she really hit a reporter in Bangkok?" I just wanted to point them to a site and say RTFM! [Read The F***ing Manual] Hah! But I've always been to nice to say that, I like actually helping people. And you've got to remember there wasn't any Google back then, just some search engines like Altavista that got you in the direction, but seemingly never straight there. So I figured if there wasn't a proper resource for these things, I would make one. It even got launched before I had finished it.
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So where does the B-faq go from here?
Now that we have a fully updated a site again and a new staff consisting of me, Jocelyn and a friend of mine, Meri, who is a walking encyclopedia of Björk, I think we're gonna stay updated and focused. Apart from the three of us we have a backbone of other fans, mainly from the björkish.net 4UM who keep their eyes and ears peeled and even help us with stuff on the site occasionally. One of our friends, Carolyn, gave us a nifty search engine. It needs to be re-indexed each time we update still, but at least we have something now. I guess I'm gonna keep learning php to see if I can't still make stuff like that and maybe include a database in the mix. The important thing is that now I don't have to worry about major updates for a while. The community really takes a load off me. It's sort of what the people of bjork.com had envisioned for their bjork.com/unity, but I get the idea the large number of fans, plus the always required thumbs-up from upstairs slows down things. And that's a shame cause as we've seen, they have a team of geniuses at work. There was even talk of my FAQ moving there, but that also a long forgotten plan.
Just one more question, do know if Björk ever read the FAQ?
Hahaha, as far as I know no. I always tell people when they post stuff online hoping Björk will somehow read it, the odds are she most likely won't, so it's better to just post things for fellow fans. But if she ever does, I would welcome her to send us a nasty e-mail stating all the corrections we should make to it if we were spreading lies. We do try to be as accurate as possible. Try. Hahaha.