Category Archives: Site News

Disruptions

August 29, 2008 – 11:24 am

Sorry folks, it’s me. These days when I install Wordpress I do a checkout from the main source repository, which has the nice property that I need only run a single command to update the exact files which change from version to version without having to do anything chancy.
At least, that’s the theory. It’s not [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (0)

Bloggy news

June 30, 2008 – 7:01 pm

For those who are fans of his work (I am), it’s my sad duty to report (via Club Troppo) that Andrew Leigh has accepted Leviathan’s inducements and is heading off to work for Treasury for a while. Among other things, he has to can his blog (or at least put it in cold storage) for [...]

By skepticlawyer | Comments (4)

Public Service Announcement

June 17, 2008 – 3:17 am

In light of recent revelations about Caz & the Hack, perhaps we should have been a bit less willing to accede to an archival request from the National Library of Australia, but we have. That means this site is now archived electronically in the library’s ‘PANDORA‘ archive.
We’re not sure how regularly this is likely to [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Blogging | Comments (5)

Today’s round of downtime

May 27, 2008 – 1:32 pm

It seems I managed to enjoy the benefits of an obscure bug in our web serving software. I’ve applied the workaround, which should — excuse me while I grimace — prevent it from happening again.
Update: I’m also installed monit, a tool which watches the server to ensure everything is still running and OK. I’ve looked [...]

By Jacques Chester | Also posted in Technology | Comments (0)