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Sorry for the interruption

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

I recently moved to a new server, and in the process I managed to deploy it on an Apache without mod_rewrite enabled. This meant that all pages but the front page were unavailable, which of course I didn’t notice because I didn’t check more than the front page. This is why I don’t have a job as a sysadmin. The only reason I figured out that something was wrong was that my Google analytics figures had fallen off a cliff.

Normal service ought now to have been resumed.

A polar bear walks into a bar…

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

…and says to the barman, “I’ll have a gin ……. and tonic please.” The barman asks, “Why the big pause?” “I’m afraid I have a minor speech impediment”, retorts the polar bear, “and I feel it’s a bit insensitive of you to draw attention to it.”

In my case, the big pause in posts has gone on for two months now. In fact, I’ve been busy with another project, which ironically is a time management tool. I don’t intend to let this blog lapse entirely, but right at the moment I’d rather do one side-project well than two badly.

If you’re interested, please head on over to TaskMaster and let me know what you think, either here or at the feedback forum. It’s at an early stage, and is at least a week or two away from being ready for ordinary users (there’s very little documentation at the moment, so it’s probably not obvious how to use it). I’ll update here and on the TaskMaster blog when there’s some significant progress.

Home again

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

I got back from Zambia a couple of weeks ago, and have decided to remain in the UK for the forseeable future, so there should be no more rambling about life in Zambia from now on. Thanks for those who bore with me during all the off-topic posts. Normal service will now be resumed, by which I mean I’ll still go off topic, only not quite as much.