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]
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The sharp eyed and attentive amongst you may have spotted the funky monkey that has appeared in the ‘free market’ section of our sidebar… we have acquired a sponsor!
But not just any sponsor.
The Gold Casino is an off-shore internet casino (obviously) in the most literal sense of the term. It is located on a server in the Principality of Sealand, a fully independent micro-state off the shore of Great Britain. Don’t like the state? Go set up your own.
No I am not joking!
Well I did say micro-state, didn’t I?
So take a peak at what our sponsor is offering by poking the funky monkey and check out their message via the link underneath the sidebar graphic. I assure you it is far more interesting that the usual marketing blather one is usually confronted with… you will see why we find them so ideologically agreeable!
It adds a whole new nuance to the term ‘off-shore business’
We started off on Samizdata.net with a sitemeter.com tracker… alas the java version which tracks referrals refused to work when we upgraded our site to Movable Type, so we added a Extreme tracker. That too is doing strange things now since our latest Movable Type upgrade (all referrals are being recorded as coming from our MT installation rather than the actual referral page) and as I have never, not once, got a reply from their tech support people no matter how often I send them messages (and I have their premium paid-for version), I am looking for recommendations regarding:
- What might be causing our problem with the Extreme’s tracker?
- And is the java version of sitemeter’s premium counter likely to work with MT 2.6x?
- Are there any better premium trackers out there as I hate to keep paying for crap service from Extreme?
Any suggestions?
Our RDF & XML syndication feeds were buggered up…
…and now they are not. Hurrah 
We Samizdatistas are in the blogging business for the long haul and so it is very gratifying indeed to be involved with a highly a successful blog… we may not be in the same league popularity wise as Instapundit or Andrew Sullivan but we are nevertheless a significant fixture in the Blogosphere.
However as our hit rate steadily creeps upward, so do our bandwidth costs. As a result, Samizdata.net has finally succumbed to the economic facts of life and our sidebar now has buttons which give our truly global readership the option to send us a donation via PayPal to help defray our mounting bandwidth expenses.
Due to a DNS/IP cock up, we have been off the air for a while… a shout goes out to the support staff at Hosting Matters for solving the problem with lightning speed when I actually told them what they needed to know.
Hosting Matters are simply the best, so give them your spondulies and host your site with them!
They rock 
As our regular readers will have noticed, we were blown off our server by the bandwidth spike caused by the response to Gabriel Syme’s article on Wednesday. 
We have just moved to Hosting Matters, and thus hopefully such traumatic ‘black out’ events will be a thing of the past from now on!
 Glenn Reynolds has blown up more servers that Al Qaeda!
We are having various server problems which are making it difficult for us to post articles. It also seems to be causing error messages when people try to leave comments.
Unfortunately the resolution of these difficulties may take a while due to circumstances beyond our control.
We may be moving servers as soon as tonight (or if not, hopefully tomorrow), so we may have a few hiccups in Samizdata.net availability.
Also, our comments seem to be having a severe case of deja vu (multiple entries) at the moment. As we are bit server lagged, do not keep pressing ‘Post’ when adding comments or we will get your pearls of wisdom again…and again…and again.
As we hope to be moving to a new server some time soon (hopefully very soon), Samizdata.net may be unavailable for a short time during the DNS switch over.
We have belatedly started adding additional links to a great many interesting blogs in the Samizdata.net sidebar (31 added so far today). More will be added later tonight as well as culling a few inactive ones.
As you may have noticed, Samizdata has been having technical problems for the last two days.
We are looking for new hosting arrangements but we have just put a short term ‘fix’ in place which should get us up and running for now, so do not fear, we are not about to go belly-up!
Hopefully normal output will resume shortly!
Our faithful readers may have noticed that Samizdata.net was down. Hopefully, the problem is fixed now and we shall be blogging our hearts out… from a critically rational libertarian perspective, obviously.
Some of us have also joined the ranks of warbloggers at The Command Post as we collectively surf the breaking news.
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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