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A wee request

April 3, 2012 – 6:54 pm

In the last six months or so, we’ve received a number of requests to publish guest posts on this blog from people who are strangers to us. At first, I assumed the messages were spam, and just ignored them. However, over the last couple of months the volume has increased considerably and it’s become clear [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Blogging, General, Guest Post | Tagged , , , , | Comments (19)

Planned Outage Tonight

August 19, 2011 – 4:43 pm

Hello everyone, it’s your friendly Ozblogistan Tyrant here. I plan to migrate our servers to a different data centre tonight. There will be some disruption during the move, and it may take time for your DNS records to be updated. We’re moving from the Fremont data centre, which has turned out to be about as [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (9)

Planned outage this Sunday

April 14, 2011 – 3:34 pm

Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan tyrant here. To perform some important maintenance on the site, it will be necessary to deactivate all Ozblogistan blogs temporarily on Sunday afternoon. I am expecting to take the site down around 2pm, central standard time, for up to two hours.

By Jacques Chester | Comments (1)

Ozblogistan will grow larger

February 11, 2011 – 2:13 pm

For some time now I, your friendly Ozblogistan Tyrant, have been considering expanding the Ozblogistan family. For my thesis research I require a larger pool of blogs under management. To that end, I have opened up a second server for Ozblogistan. Shortly, one server will handle the database while the original server handles the web [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (0)

Larvatus Prodeo is down temporarily

December 11, 2010 – 9:48 am

Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan tyrant here. LP’s domain name has expired. Consequently it is no longer possible to navigate directly to larvatusprodeo.net. I have reactivated larvatusprodeo.ozblogistan.com.au in the meantime while the domain issues are sorted out. Update: normal service has been resumed.

By Jacques Chester | Comments (2)

Skepticlawyer now on Facebook, Twitter

September 4, 2010 – 7:21 pm

Skepticlawyer now has its very own Facebook page. If you’re on Facebook and you want the latest on Skepticlawyer, “like” us to get our updates. I’ve also set it up so that the blog feed goes to my twitter feed (my name in Twitter is Legal Eagle and my user name is legaleagle777). So there’s [...]

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Ozblogistan News, Part Deux

August 10, 2010 – 8:17 pm

Hello all, your friendly Ozblogistan Overlord here. Last week I wrote briefly about slowness being caused by attempts to debug a comments plugin used by several Ozblogistan blogs — Brian’s Latest Comments — in the context of Larvatus Prodeo. It transpires that LP’s database of comments was too large to process without causing errors and [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (0)

Sorry, folks.

July 29, 2010 – 11:39 am

You’ve probably noticed some slowness in the past 2 hours. That’s me, your loving Ozblogistan admin / tyrant, trying to debug a plugin. Apparently asking for debugging information is too much for PHP and MySQL to bear, so they threw an unedifying tantrum which choked the site.

By Jacques Chester | Comments (2)

Lawyers and a larrikin lose upgrade lotto

July 15, 2010 – 2:35 am

tl;dr: If the site looks broken, do a shift-reload. Tonight I spent a few hours performing some upgrades on the Ozblogistan server upon which Skepticlawyer.com.au and others reside. This was triggered by my VPS host providing new memory allowances which required rebooting the system. I had two other upgrades in the backlog — the operating [...]

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An appeal to my American readers…

December 13, 2009 – 10:11 pm

This is a fairly blatant exercise in tourism blegging, so if you don’t live on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA, then feel free to ignore it. I will be attending a conference in Washington DC from 19-21 February, 2010, and (having done this once before) would like to avoid flying across the pond, staying [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in General, Society | Comments (3)