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Our hosting company – EngineHosting had a mass outage for about an hour. Sorry about that now.
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John Laird for Christmas?
John Laird (Lord Laird of Artigarvan) is unionism’s jester. His memoir A Struggle To Be Heard ” by a True Ulster Liberal” (from Slugger’s shop on Amazon here) might serve more as a heavy stocking filler than anybody’s idea of a main present. In it he wears the masks of comedy and tragedy to turn the [...] read our review »
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“It was a trivial problem that… occurs every year”
Just your average family gathering at Christmas, with a bit of an argument about the seating cleaning arrangements… Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics over a turf war in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the [...] read our review » -
The ANC, the IRA and the rise of influence of the left within Sinn Fein…
World by Storm has a nice piece up on the IRA’s role in helping MK, the armed wing of the ANC, in the 1980s. In particular he sees a strange alchemy at work there: …if one can think of a clearly legitimate contemporary struggle it was that against apartheid and it is to the credit [...] read our review »
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Tell the truth. You spilled your Diet Coke on the server again, right?
Diet coke? You’ll be hearing from our lawyers …
Seems a general problem. Quite a number of hosting servers seem to have had an outage this evening.
You seriously pay that? There’s cheaper options than that!
Sorry, couldn’t help looking them up.
How come letters with fada in contributors names are deleted?
Tochais Síoraí
but below it’s
Nerdy,
Expression Engine hosting is no trivial matter. Other sites are hosted for a lot less, but we were getting constant site outtage whenever we had more than a couple of dozen simultaneous visits. The only company that hosts EE well is the company that developed the system in the first place. We’re moving to wordpress shortly and that will save us a fair bit.
TS,
I’ve often wondered that as well – and the current system is quite hard to get into – it only really does the English language characters properly. There may be a setting in the database that I could change, but I suspect that fixing this problem would result in me breaking the rest of the site altogether
In the not-too-distant, we’ll have a new WordPress site and I *think* that it’s a lot more tolerant and a lot less US-centric than Expression Engine (the current system)
Damned Yanks. Thanks, Paul.
Understand Paul, I’ve used WordPress a lot and it should be a lot less stressful on resources.
It doesn’t allow a fada in the username but does allow them in your first, last, nick and display names.
I just tested it and tést is stored as tst if used as a username. There’s no warning and the username can’t be changed without manually changing it in the database.
There *may* be a plugin to enable username changes.