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Upgrade time again

Written By: - Date published: 11:49 am, September 20th, 2008 - 33 comments

I’m on ‘holiday’ for the next few weeks to contribute some campaign work. However it will also give me some time to do the next set of upgrades to the site sometime during that period. I will be putting in the acculmulated upgrades for existing packages and testing them. Here is your opportunity to say […]

Drinking Liberally Auckland: Reminder.

Written By: - Date published: 11:29 am, August 27th, 2008 - 5 comments

A reminder – Drinking Liberally is on in Auckland tonight with Laila Harre as the speaker. These are always fun to listen to the speaker and you get to do some networking. WHAT: Drinking Liberally Auckland City WHO: You and any of your left-leaning companeros WHEN: 7.30pm, Wednesday 27th August WHERE: London Bar, cnr Wellesley […]

Drinking Liberally (AKL) with Laila Harre

Written By: - Date published: 11:37 am, August 22nd, 2008 - 5 comments

WHAT: Drinking Liberally Auckland City WHO: You and any of your left-leaning companeros WHEN: 7.30pm, Wednesday 27th August WHERE: London Bar, cnr Wellesley & Queen Sts (opposite Civic). The entrance to the bar is around on Wellesley St, you need to go up the stairs and we will probably be congregating at the far end […]

The Standard turns one

Written By: - Date published: 8:31 am, August 15th, 2008 - 26 comments

Today’s our first birthday. A year ago I had the privilege of the first post. It was on John Key’s contradictory statements about whether or not he wanted New Zealand troops sent to Iraq. The video’s below. Since then there have been another 1440 posts. Over the course of the day I imagine that some […]

Reminder: Drinking Liberally Auckland

Written By: - Date published: 2:36 pm, July 1st, 2008 - Comments Off on Reminder: Drinking Liberally Auckland

Remember that Drinking Liberally Auckland is having its inaugural session tomorrow with David Slack. Note it in your schedules and tell your left-leaning and green friends where the action is. In fact phone a techno-phobe friend now! WHAT Drinking Liberally Auckland WHEN 7:30pm, Wed 2 July WHERE London Bar, corner Queen and Wellesley Streets, Auckland […]

Blog reader survey

Written By: - Date published: 9:28 am, June 24th, 2008 - 2 comments

Dear Blog Reader, My name is Andrew Cushen, and I am conducting a survey of New Zealand Political Blog Readers. This survey is part of my research toward a Master of Arts in Political Studies at the University of Auckland. As the reader of a blog that features postings related to political news, discussion and debate in New […]

WhaleOil – Technically Challenged

Written By: - Date published: 10:00 pm, June 17th, 2008 - 109 comments

I was just checking the links to the standard and I see that Whale is being his usual self. It looks like he has finally managed to read a DNS. He has discovered that I run a server at home, and that I’m a labour party supporter. Now I’m sure I’ve mentioned this a number […]

Down Under Feminists’ Carnival

Written By: - Date published: 10:42 am, June 6th, 2008 - 5 comments

Hoyden About Town have just written to let us know that they’re hosting the first edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival. They’re calling it a “spectacular buffet of feminist writing” and we’re sure it will be. The Down Under Feminists’ Carnival is open to feminist submissions from any blog based in Australia or New Zealand. You […]

Cullen to speak at Drinking Liberally

Written By: - Date published: 3:50 pm, May 30th, 2008 - 100 comments

Drinking Liberally’s Facebook group has just sent out the invitation to their second event. I don’t know how they’ve swung it, but they’ve got Michael Cullen speaking. It’s not every day the Deputy Prime Minister agrees to talk to your drinking club/politics forum. It will be on Wednesday again to fit Cullen’s schedule. So, details: […]

Free doco screening, 6pm tonight, Wellington

Written By: - Date published: 11:10 am, May 30th, 2008 - Comments Off on Free doco screening, 6pm tonight, Wellington

If you’re in Wellington, head along to the City Gallery tonight at 6pm to check out the free screening of a documentary on homelessness by Kate Amore and Charlie Bleakley. It was featured on Close Up last night:

Happy 1000th.

Written By: - Date published: 9:24 pm, May 22nd, 2008 - 11 comments

Well that happened fast. This is the 1001st public post on The Standard. That is assuming I get it in before the next post appears. So I thought we should have a post to celebrate the event. It has been just over 9 months in the gestation. The first post was, appropriately enough, “Get your […]

Upgrades: Hardware

Written By: - Date published: 4:00 pm, May 9th, 2008 - 13 comments

 Upgrade is complete There will be a hardware upgrade on monday during working hours (still trying to get the time). The site will be offline for up to an hour while the system gets transferred. The upgrade should eliminate the capacity issues that have been showing every few days. I’ve limited the problem by reducing […]

Updates – gravatar/identicon

Written By: - Date published: 12:12 am, May 7th, 2008 - 33 comments

The latest tweak on the system are Gravatar/Identicons. Read about it on this site in the Gravatar menu item. Apart from the graphics, it does have a serious purpose. That is to provide some level of personal trust/authentication for those who wish to take advantage of it. This post is to provide a thread to […]

Tweaking the updates

Written By: - Date published: 3:45 am, April 30th, 2008 - 17 comments

Yesterday’s site issues were due to a combination of inadequate Expires (causing a lot more files being transmitted) and the web-crawlers grabbing the updated site. It blew out the memory. I’ve limited the simultaneous sessions to prevent that until I get more RAM. Bandwidth usage for this month is indicating this would be a wise […]

Upgrades

Written By: - Date published: 6:19 am, April 27th, 2008 - 73 comments

I upgraded the site tonight. There have been a lot of security fixes since we pushed a test site together in August 2007. It was only meant to be a trial (as I keep saying plaintively to the posters), and it sort of got away on us. This version is meant to be much more […]

Extra weight

Written By: - Date published: 10:05 pm, April 22nd, 2008 - 6 comments

A reader pointed out a set of hidden spam links that had attached themselves to the footer of the site. I’d noticed them previously and thought that I’d corrected them (see comment). But they turned up again. Turns out it was from an interesting flaw in the website, and was being inserted from outside. I’ve […]

Oops.

Written By: - Date published: 7:04 pm, April 11th, 2008 - 25 comments

There was a reboot on the server last night for some reason about 20 hours ago, and the database process failed to start. The cron job that was meant to restart the process didn’t work. It would happen on a day when I was rushing around with a dead cellphone and no net access. I’ll […]

Happy New Year

Written By: - Date published: 11:56 am, January 1st, 2008 - 15 comments

Cyber-Santa came a little late to The Standard this year but we’re certainly not complaining – evidently we’ve got a New Year’s present instead. He and the techno-elves have moved us to a brand spanking new server cluster that should give us plenty of breathing room and make those pesky traffic congestion problems we were […]

Christmas wishes

Written By: - Date published: 11:47 am, December 27th, 2007 - 5 comments

Well I didn’t get my pony but I hope everyone’s Christmas was as enjoyable as mine. I’m just finishing some peanut butter on toast, by my reckoning the first non turkey- or ham-based meal I’ve had in five days. I’m hoping that it won’t trigger some sort of auto immune rejection reaction. Things are likely […]

Don’t panic

Written By: - Date published: 6:19 pm, December 15th, 2007 - 8 comments

A few readers have written in complaining they’re getting a strange message in their browser when they visit the site. Turns out that some versions of Internet Explorer don’t like the way one of our Google videos is embedded. Apparently it’s nothing to worry about (despite the sometimes stern message!) – I’ll see if I […]

Time for an upgrade

Written By: - Date published: 6:17 pm, November 13th, 2007 - 21 comments

So the Herald links to us from the front page of their website this afternoon, and the resulting traffic knocks out our server. Bugger. We’re back online now, but I guess the moral of the story is we’re going to have to start paying for it like the big boys do. Did I say bugger […]

Outage

Written By: - Date published: 7:01 pm, October 24th, 2007 - Comments Off on Outage

Some server issues outside our control caused a bit of an outage this afternoon. We’re up and running again now though, as you can see. Thanks to all those who wrote in to make sure we were ok, and our apologies for any inconvenience.

a_y_b: MIA

Written By: - Date published: 1:35 pm, September 25th, 2007 - Comments Off on a_y_b: MIA

Apologies for my silence, I’ve been having a Microsoft Word nightmare. When mail merge would work, the printer wouldn’t; when the printer would work, Excel wouldn’t, and so on… All sorted now… Clippy was an arse. Here he is trying to redeem himself:

Your mum was right – sharing’s good

Written By: - Date published: 5:04 pm, September 5th, 2007 - Comments Off on Your mum was right – sharing’s good

That’s why we’ve just installed “Share This” – a blog plugin that should make it easier for you to share our tasty content with your friends (and the world). As soon as we put up a contact form you’ll be able to tell us if it works for you (or not). In the meantime try […]