Sorry about the intermittent server issues we are experiencing. Replacement hamsters are being installed.
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At some point tomorrow, the samizdata server is going to be rebooted whilst various arcane rituals are preformed and the hamsters that make it all spin are fed and rested. So if Samizdata is off-line for a while, that is why.  March 4th, 2015 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
 The server was a tad querulous for a while earlier today, but it seems it was nothing a little spanking could not cure (like most things really). September 22nd, 2014 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Our spam filter seems to be a bit out of control and for some reason has taken a dislike to several regular commenters! If you get smited/smote/smitten by the crazed bot, drop us an e-mail so we can administer a kick to the system to un-smite you 😉 August 8th, 2014 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
Here it is! We will be tweaking for quite some time I suspect for both function and aesthetics, but we now have a content management system that does not involve stone tablets at any stage of the process. Now I just need to figure out how to use it… December 14th, 2012 | 93 comments - (Comments are closed)
As of this Thursday, Samizdata will temporarily stop updating and on Friday, it will go off-line completely for… a while. We wil be back at some point over the weekend with the New Improved Version. December 11th, 2012 | 41 comments - (Comments are closed)
Samizdata will no longer be embedding links to the Daily Telegraph’s site as they have created a pay-wall for overseas readers after they have accessed twenty articles in a month. As a significant proportion of Samizdata’s readership is overseas, and as there are many alternative sources of news on-line, we bid adieu to the Telegraph, effective immediately. November 8th, 2012 | 17 comments - (Comments are closed)
Samizdata.  Eleven years. Blimey. Many thanks to all the contributors for 14,148 articles and to the commentariat for just under a quarter of a million comments. Hopefully before the end of the year we might (maybe, perhaps, possibly) have a new improved Samizdata (hi Alec!) with new red knobs and extra added fiddly bits. November 2nd, 2012 | 42 comments - (Comments are closed)
… may cause some system response latency in the Samizdata primary data meat buffer. I am attending The State of the Net conference in Trieste so in between listening to fellow Samizdatista Adriana Lukas explain why all why “all yer hierarchies are belong to us” and doing my bit to drain Europe’s wine lakes, there may be some delays in clearing comments caught in SmiteBot’s merciless jaws. June 22nd, 2012 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
It should be possible to discuss racial genetics dispassionately and honestly in a public forum. But it is not. That is simply an empirically derived conclusion gained from running Samizdata for 10 years… it.can.not.be.done. Sorry but that is the inescapable truth. Racists are the perfect example of Churchill’s definition of a fanatic and unless you immediately show them the door and boot them through it, discourse in the comments section will quickly become untenable. So Samizdata will continue to delete and ban racists when they leave comments and no apologies will be made for that. Our house, our rules. For another article pertaining to why we will not tolerate racist discussions on Samizdata, read this. December 6th, 2011 | 21 comments - (Comments are closed)
Approving comments that have attracted the pitiless attentions of Smitebot, a creature of tireless vigilance and limited brain, may take rather longer than usual over the next few days. Tomorrow the primary bio-mechanical component of the intermediating data analysis buffer is going in for significant repairs once again. As we say on the internetz… brb August 11th, 2011 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
…have been rather unwell lately, hence it has taken rather longer than usual to get comments approved if they have aggro’ed smitebot. Do not be concerned if you have no idea what this means May 25th, 2011 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
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