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1. Maynard J 1

   24 June 2009 at 11:19 am

   Are people over the post-election-damn-it-I’ve-had-enough-politics mindset? It always seems to take a few months – that is what I think the honeymoon really is. Not the media going easy, but no one caring, even over issues that whould normally raise the hackles.
   • lprent 1.1

     24 June 2009 at 11:57 am

     Oh yeah. We’re getting extraordinary growth in the lurkers on the site (who are the bulk of the population) as well people commenting and posting. We’ve been having a steady growth of a few percent per week generally (public holidays disrupt the trend) since the xmas/new year drop.

     captcha: harmonious Dubba
     yeah right..
     • Maynard J 1.1.1

       24 June 2009 at 12:02 pm

       lprent, this is all about politics – maybe you should call them ‘readers’ and not lurkers 😉 (I know no offence intended)
       • lprent 1.1.1.1

         24 June 2009 at 12:17 pm

         I’m a programmer – not a politician. The term is evocative and pretty accurate with little ambiguity. That is what I tend to look for when labeling behavior. When people hear a term I don’t have to spend time explaining how they are different from illiterates (in the case of readers).

         Besides lurkers has a long and venerable heritage in net circles. I think that it was first used in the BBS’es.

         BTW: What do you think I should call trolls?
         • Maynard J 1.1.1.1.1

           24 June 2009 at 1:15 pm

           Just so long as your lurkers know it is a term of endearment!

           Trolls is Trolls though, through & through. And no need to worry about their feelings!
2. SHG 2

   24 June 2009 at 2:44 pm

   Hosting’s with bluehost.com, right? Have they done this sort of thing before?
   • lprent 2.1

     24 June 2009 at 4:41 pm

     Nope. But I’ve only been there since early this year.
     The move would have been smooth if I was in the US or European timezone. In NZ it wasn’t too bad. I’d just like a e-mail damnit.
     Still you what you pay for. This costs ~$200 NZ for a year. Prior to that I was paying $180 per month in NZ
3. Billy 3

   24 June 2009 at 3:45 pm

   lprent,

   The Archives do not seem to be working.

   And I am feeling all nostalgic.
   • r0b 3.1

     24 June 2009 at 4:33 pm

     Billy – I thought you were extinct! Say hi to ‘Sod some time. Nostalgia indeed (starting to think I’ve been hanging round here for too long myself).
     • Billy 3.1.1

       24 June 2009 at 9:01 pm

       Hey r0b. Billy is dead. I killed him. He barely put up a fight. Even he could see that he had become just too ridiculous.
       • r0b 3.1.1.1

         24 June 2009 at 9:15 pm

         Hey Dead Billy.

         Interesting isn’t it how blogging drives us to extremes. r0b has turned out to be a lot more confrontational than I was expecting too. It’s something about the medium, but its also something about the message. When one side is putting extreme opinions so strongly and so plentifully I think the other side has to do so too. Hmmmm. Bread and circuses or the next phase of democracy? Perhaps it’s still to early to tell.

         Anyway, hope you’re enjoying the afterlife…
         • Pascal's bookie 3.1.1.1.1

           24 June 2009 at 9:33 pm

           bah. This is nuttin. Used to have duels and fightin in the streets, tory farmers bringin their horses into town and gettin gifted wiv a weekend loan of a badge and a baton.

           Mass media has calmed things down a whole lot, pollies know that what they say at meetings will be reported nationwide, journos know that what they write will be read beyond their sectarian audience and seen beyond their city and preserved longer than a week. Everybody is downright civil.

           Christ, it’s gotten so bad the even the bloody trolls like burt will spend years setting up an argument that will only maybe show that a pseudonymous scribbler might be a hypocrite.

           Fuck.
         • r0b 3.1.1.1.2

           24 June 2009 at 10:23 pm

           Interesting points PB. Though I’m still not sure where blogs are going to end up in the long run, as the messy collision of politics and the internet unfolds…
   • lprent 3.2

     24 June 2009 at 4:36 pm

     Yeah. I was fixing them last night and the hosts suddenly decided to move our server box. There is a post on the topic. Will have to wait until tonight
4. a lurker 4

   25 June 2009 at 12:02 am

   yes, readers not lurkers. this is a wonderful site. You should be proud of what has been achieved.
5. gingercrush 5

   25 June 2009 at 10:42 am

   Well what happened today?
   • Anita 5.1

     25 June 2009 at 10:43 am

     Missed yous guys! 🙂
   • lprent 5.2

     25 June 2009 at 7:27 pm

     Bluehost suspended the account again because the cpu use went over limits. This time it did it at about 0330 NZST. I found out when I read my e-mail and saw a notice from them.

     So I spent a tedious hour and a half looking for causes in the code and logs, which I couldn’t find. The rest of the time was getting them to start the site again. It wasn’t external and it wasn’t corrupted code. It is happening at idle time for teh site.

     I’ll pull it to somewhere local for a few days so that I can see what the issue is. I suspect that what is happening is that a normal cron-job like super-cache cleanup is getting excessive cpu as we haven’t had this type of issue prior to the traffic running up.

     Expect maintenance tonight

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