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Two of my blog-colleagues are struck down with computer-related grief.
Natalie Solent, who has been unable to blog since last Saturday, has asked Samizdata.net to pass on to as many of her regular readers as we can reach that she has not abandoned them on purpose, but has been wrenched away from them, by an attempt to upgrade from Windows Complicated to Windows Even More Complicated which has proved to be very complicated indeed. But she will be back, just as soon as it’s all sorted.
And if you’re wondering why it’s techno-moron me telling you this rather than Perry de Havilland, well as you may have guessed already from his recent blog-silence, he too is having computer-related troubles, this time involving a hardware failure. It isn’t going to be too expensive (it’s one of the small connecting boxes rather than the big box itself which has collapsed), but the problem is proving to be time consuming, while Perry queues with other afflicted souls for the services of his computer-guru. He too is doing all he can to get back on line.
Yes, I was briefly an Explorer Scout… but that’s not what I’m writing about.
Given the article posted by Natalie I think Samizdata needs to think ahead of the Statist curve. I too find this so far beyond my worst nightmares that I am near speechless – or whatever one calls the blogged word.
If anyone out there has their own server on a high bandwidth link and could work with Samizdata.net to set up a mirror and in the worst case scenario, free hosting, it would be much appreciated.
Here, for the Infidels, I repeat The Holy Word of The Goddess Liberty, (Praised be Her Name!) which I Worship above All Others and whose Word is not respected in the UK:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
– US 1st Amendment
So take this Tranzi Scum!:
Victory to Israel! Hang Saddam! Shoot the Guantanamo terrorists! A HARM in every Al Qaeda’s SUV! Nuke the Chechens! The only good al Qaeda is a Dead al Qaeda.
Thank you for your kind patience.
In case anyone else has noticed… there seems to be a failure of DNS for Glenn Reynolds Instapundit. The company “DNS Services” seems to not be answering queries. He is still reachable by IP
I wonder if he realizes it… HEY GLENN, IF YOU FLUSH YOUR LOCAL CACHE YOU MIGHT LOSE TOUCH WITH YOUR SERVER!!!
Later… 0400 GMT: All seems well again over at Instapundit.
Our Debian Linux-based server is undergoing a software update this afternoon (GMT) so please excuse us if any problems arise. Remote system upgrades are always “interesting” affairs.
Time passes…
All clear. Other than one near disaster with a critical library that got automatically de-installed when it shouldn’t, all seems to have gone smoothly.
Due to the Libertarian Alliance conference in London, there will be rather less posted on Samizdata until Monday.
We updated to a newer release of Movable Type around 1800 GMT today. If you commented on something around that time and it was lost during the shuffle, please accept our apologies!
The lack of new articles and comments has been due to a period of server problems…
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming!
…whilst keeping a stiff upper lip at all times.
![[photo of Sarah Lawrence]](http://www.sarahlawrence.org/Images/020201-Floridath.jpg)
Sarah Lawrence: distinctly red-faced
Dear Friends,
I regret to announce that my little comment yesterday was not aimed in entirely the right direction. Specifically, the writer whose conspiracy theory I was discussing was not the George Smith I found so delightful at the Youth 4 Liberty Summer Camp, but another George Smith (Just how many George Smiths are there anyway?). The writer I quoted was in fact, George F. Smith, and not in fact, “my” George Smith, who is in fact, George H. Smith.
Deepest apologies George F. Smith and particularly George H. Smith! I am so embarrassed! What a complete idiot!(1)
George H. Smith has been very gracious in his response to my gaffe, and has not even drawn to my attention the fact that I, with my almost-as-common name, should jolly well know better. It is mortifying to find that I have done to George H. Smith what so irks me myself that I occasionally think that no reasonable jury would convict if I were to take some small action – with a Colt M4A1 with M203 grenade launcher.
Well at least this clears up the otherwise quite inexplicable mystery of why my Y4L speech appeared to have made such little impact on the writer of the piece I quoted! Sarah NO, NOT THE COLLEGE Lawrence
(1) I stress that the word “idiot” refers to myself and not to the friend who drew my attention to “our” George Smith’s alleged article. I may not be able ever to face appearing in public without a paper bag over my head or ever again, but I am, as one would expect from an English woman such as I, keeping a stiff upper lip and taking responsibility for my own actions (and those of my friend, whom I’ll never trust again… I’m sure he did it on purpose to make me look silly… not that I hold with paranoid conspiracies or anything).
We have enabled ‘comments’ for samizdata.net posts on an experimental basis.
It seems that our regular samizdata.net e-mail (as found in the sidebar) is now operational again and can be used once more.
Alas we seem to have lost some of the e-mails that were sent to us over the last week (i.e. since late last Friday) unless they were sent to our emergency address.
Just a reminder that our e-mail is still buggered up, and has been so since last Friday. Please use our emergency e-mail rather than the one in ther side bar to contact us.
Just a reminder that our e-mail is still knackered, and has been so since last Friday. Please use our emergency e-mail rather than the one in ther side bar to contact us.
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