I am having problems with my two blogs, Brian’s Culture Blog and Brian’s Education Blog. Go there, and you just get big coloured blanks next to the sidebars. I cannot post new stuff, and the only way to read my latest from when I could post is to look in the January archives (here and here). And all this at a time when I am heavily involved doing other things, and do not need such complications as these.
The good news is that this computer genius is even now giving this problem whatever attention he can spare, in among all the other demands that the world has for his skills.
I have told him to take his time. Culture and education will continue. Digital photographs will go on being taken and being displayed on the Internet, even without my inspiring example. Classical CDs will still be enjoyed, even though I am unable to tell people which. People will continue to teach and to learn, even though I am temporarily unavailable to teach them, or to say what I have learned.
Meanwhile, my thanks to all those who have kindly enquired after these blogs, and especially to those who have said that they miss them. They will return.
Come back soon!
I was wondering if someone had leaned on you like PC Woody….;-)
Never mind your other blogs Brian, – what has happened to this one? No technical problems, more one of content, it has become very ordinary lately…
There is a strikeout line through Samizdata on my blogroll….
Never mind your other blogs Brian, – what has happened to this one? No technical problems, more one of content, it has become very ordinary lately…
There is a strikeout line through Samizdata on my blogroll….
Actually, the stupid thing is that most of those URLs end up linking to the same site, which isn’t even there any longer. The hosting company killed the account and deleted the page something like a month ago.
The referers are being sent by a huge variety of different computers all over the world, and it looks to me like nearly all of them are zombies. Which means that whoever is doing this is committing a felony under US law, and I’m pretty sure is violating the law in a lot of other places, too. But what really makes it stupid is how futile it is, since the page they’re trying to push with this doesn’t even exist any longer and hasn’t for a long time.
I’ve been putting up with this crap on my server for a hell of a long time now, even though I don’t have “trackbacks” or any other way for anyone besides me to see refers. It’s a pain in the tail, and I wish some law enforcement authority would start with the hosting service and try to trace the payments they received to figure out who’s behind it.