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Unfortunately, the server this blog is hosted on is getting a wee bit flaky (for definitions of “wee bit” that involve “several times an hour”). While it isn’t crashing, it is hanging for several minutes at a time. This appears to be a UML bug, and probably an old one that has long since been fixed at that, but we have limited options in a addressing it for a host of reasons that you truly want to hear nothing about. To further complicate things, my DSL at home has become “intermittent” (the best kind, because it always comes up when you call tech support), so I can’t even host the blog there to achieve better uptimes.

The good news is, new hardware should be arriving soon, and with it an entirely new platform (built on OpenVZ). Cross your fingers and hope that all goes well, and maybe you’ll be able to read more mindless drivel from yours truly Really Soon Now.

Oh wait, I guess you can’t hear me.

A note to the blog spammers out there: your relentless to attempts overcome whatever spam filters I set up have forced me to set my blog to require approval before making a comment live. So, in the interests of not wasting my time (and to a lesser extent, yours). Give it up, okay?

So, for reasons that are entirely unclear to me, my blog is working again. My best guess is that things started working after I upgraded to the latest version of lighttpd. All I can say is hallelujah! Those of you who are concerned that your reading experience is not being properly monetized, don’t worry. I’ll be setting that back up shortly.

I’ve added My Web Links to the right column of the blog. I know, My Web is probably the most un-hip social bookmark solution on the planet, but I like the way it integrates in with my my Yahoo search results, and I’m still far too lazy to switch to dei.cio.us. Besides, it works.

I also have observed that the spammers of the world have discovered this site. Joy.