We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]

e-mail problems

It seems our e-mail system is not working properly, with some e-mail sent to us over the last three days not arriving at our end at all. Please use our emergency backup e-mail address and re-send if you did not receive a reply from us to any communications, until our system comes back on-line.

On-line shops

I am quite satisfied with the Café Press on-line shop we already have for Samizdata.net (they are currently running a sale in fact!), but does anyone out there know of any other on-line shop providers which offer tee-shirts in colours other than Ash Grey and White? I would love to do black and/or deep blue shirts with our logo in white as well!

Please e-mail us (see sidebar) if you know of any.

Thanks.

Linkage due

Due to the chaos caused by the change over to the new blog format (plus the fact we actually have lives beyond blogging… shocking I know), many people to whom we have written saying we would link to them have not seen the link appear.

We will try to catch up with all the additional blog links (and perhaps cut a few inactive ones) over the next week or so. Feel free to remind us if we have previously promised to link to you

Samizdata.net…capitalist tools!

After casting our eyes enviously at the Instapundit’s and Bitter Girl’s on-line shops, we decided to also open an on-line shop for Samizdata.net as well (click here or see our sidebar under ‘Network’)

Now you too can prove you are one with the sinister globalist Illuminati (not to mention defray the cost of setting up this nice new blog!)



The new Samizdata.net site

Feedback from most people regarding the new look Samizdata.net has been very positive. However a few people have reported strangeness.

The website is blue with white body text and lighter blue links. A few people have reported seeing our text as black and electric blue links, which is odd. It could be that older browsers which do not support css might have problems.

Please let us know by e-mail (see sidebar) if you are having problems, noting what browser/version/OS you are using.


I should look like this!
Please note that reducing the size of the screenshot in has made the blues
a somewhat darker in this picture than they really are

Welcome to Samizdata.net!

Samizdata.net is our new look blog that replaces the blogspot hosted/blogger.com powered Libertarian Samizdata. We are now a Movable Type powered blog, fully searchable with thematic, author and date indexed archives.

It will take a while to fully index all our old archives but they are available indexed chronologically already.

e-mail problems yet again

Once more our crappy domain name host is down. Please use our emergency contact address if you wish to e-mail us.

Update: Our regular e-mail seems to be working again.

Slavic linguistic atrocity detected

Editor’s note

I agree with Brian Micklethwait’s insistence on getting the nuances of spelling and nationality correct. So I am sure he would want me to point out that there is no such thing as a Slovakian – the adjective is Slovak.

Editor’s note

Concerning Brian’s article below on Euro-Britain for fruitbat read moonbat throughout.

E-mail problems

Due to a major UK routing server going splat, our e-mail is not working at the moment (and neither is that of several dozen UK ISPs apparently). If you sent us any e-mail this afternoon, you might want to resend it to our back-up address.

As it is such a major router which has done down, it will hopefully be repaired quite soon.

Update as of 18:45 GMT: The problem has been fixed!

Blog linkage

Although we have reduced the amount of blogs to which we link on the Samizdata main page, we have added a separate links and photographs page. We will occasionally add new photographs there every now and then if we can catch a member of the Samizdata Team in a compromising situation.

We added the links page as the sidebar was becoming unmanagable and the links list was in danger of melting down… a sort of blogger China Syndrome.

Update, July 2002: since our transmogification to Samizdata.net, this has all changed

Samizdata blog e-mail fixed!

The regular Samizdata e-mail address is back up and running after our domain host finally clubbed the misbehaving server into submission like a baby seal.

Feedback should go to: [address removed]

If you have them, the various other samizdata.net e-mail addresses are now functional again.