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Our hosting company – EngineHosting had a mass outage for about an hour. Sorry about that now.
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“You can see Newton’s mind at work…”
To add to the open access treasure trove at the Royal Society, Cambridge University Library is putting online some of its collection of books, maps, manuscripts and journals. We have called the first phase of our work on the Cambridge Digital Library the Foundations Project, which runs from mid-2010 to mid-2013 and has been made possible [...] read our review » -
Kevin Myers’ ‘Watching the Door’: Book Review
This reads as if a mad picaresque tale. Myers as first a reporter for RTÉ and then as a freelance journalist with no real experience, finds himself wandering into savagery as he hastens north as the Troubles explode. A soldier dies next to him; he witnesses an IRA ambush; he sees children shot to death [...] read our review »
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Do Words Matter?: Book Review of Political Discourse and Conflict Resolution – Debating Peace in Northern Ireland
I share many of the concerns of Andy Pollak, whose recent post ‘My Response to the Slugger Begrudgers’ zeroed in on the ‘relentless flow of negativity’ of some Slugger commentators. Pollak’s post was largely concerned with the medium of the blog. Indeed, I think the anonymity of the online world encourages extreme discourse and allows [...] 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.