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]

As requested… a Samizdata facebook group

As I have had several people ask, I have set up a Samizdata Facebook group.

Now all I have to do if figure out what to do with it as I am new to Facebook.

Full XML feed

As requested, Samizdata.net now provides a full text XML feed for those who want it.

Immediate assistance needed

The newly minted high-school graduate daughter of a co-worker is on walkabout in Europe and due to a train strike in Italy is about to end up at Gatwick in the wee hours. Her father is trying to find some place for her to stay.

Any suggestions on places she could find a room at perhaps 3am in London are welcome. Any of our Samizdata staff awake over there still?

Server woes

Apologies for the sluggishness of the site recently, we have been under concerted attack from spammers.

A pox on all spammers

We are having availability problems due to a major spammer attack… please bear with us.

Internet problems in East Asia

Readers in some areas of East Asia may experience difficulty in reaching us due to at least 6 submarine fibre cuts around Taiwan caused by the earthquake there.

It is my understanding the remaining capacity is ‘jammed up’ and it may be a week before there is any improvement.

Possible interruption of anti-statist tirades

Samizdata may be intermittently unavailable today as we are scheduled for a server upgrade… nothing serious hopefully.

Comment system playing up again

Some odd things have happened with a few recent comments (some garbling and different people’s comment running into each other). Most comments seem to be posting okay however. We are looking into the problem.

Comment system seems to be playing up

Sorry, but the comment system is acting weird… we will try to get it fixed as soon as possible.

It seems to be blocking things it should not and has posted most of the comments entered today dated… some time tomorrow!

Samizdata likes Firefox at last

Firefox users rejoice… at least those who use it via Windows XP… the push button formatting now works in the comment entry forms, but you will probably have to clear your browser cache first to notice any difference.

Samizdata.net server outage

The Samizdata.net server was a bit grumpy earlier today but the good folks at Hosting Matters have opened it up, removed some dead mice from the treadmill, replaced them with new fresh ones and all is now well again.

Comments on Samizdata – a technical question

I have a technical question… the comment forms on Samizdata have formatting buttons for the text, but alas these only appear to work for people using Internet Explorer.

Does anyone know of a pop-up comment system we might be able to use which will allow push-button formatting to function in IE and Firefox, plus allow us to use our groovy graphics and is compatable with an anti-spam Turing test/captcha system similar to the one we have… all of which would work within Moveable Type (TypeKey is not an option)?