Jasp's Blog

I’m sorry that I haven’t been blogging recently, but unfortunately life is currently somewhat busy. I’m in the final three months of my PhD, and stress levels are rising. This has not been helped by having to arrange a move, as I’ll have to leave my current flat at the end of July. In Edinburgh [...]

Today I deleted the following message from my blog comments spam folder:
Very well written post however, I would recommend that you turn the No Follow off in your comment section.
Keep up the good work.
Oh sure, I’ll just make your spamming of my blog even more profitable.
Idiots!
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Please excuse any temporary glitches with the website. It is currently undergoing a period of renovation as I migrate all my content into the blog system. This will be accompanied with a minor redesign to take into account the new organisation. While this takes place there are likely to be a few minor issues with [...]

I’m about to update to Wordpres 2.3. If everything looks odd I’m just ironing out the bugs.
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Due to excessive comment spam from a particular IP address (81.95.146.227) I have since blocked this IP from accessing my servers and have also contacted their host. Fortunately this appears to be a server, rather than a zombie system, so I don’t think I’ve blocked any genuine users.
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My webhost is moving the servers. Hopefully it shan’t cause any problems. But if I disapear you’ll know why.
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Opera software have released Opera mini, which allows web access on my brick of a 3510i. Am testing my blog.
Edited to add: Well it worked, but its a little clumsy. I can’t imagine I’ll be writing long posts on a phone keypad.
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Well my year is up on my old servers so I’ve shifted to a new host. Hopefully it shouldn’t have too great an impact but it may mean that things are a little bumpy for a few days. I have also taken to import the old Blogger posts, and will get arround to the others [...]

I appear to be having slight troubles with downloading of exe files. I am currently looking into this problem and it shall be addressed shortly.
ETA: I have contact my host and am waiting to hear from them.
EETA: I managed to find out a work-around my end, so all is now working. It seems [...]