Click the image to make it bigger, please. (It’s a rare picture of the Articles and Texticles aesthetics committee, scrutinising a submission from an artist hoping to have his work hung on this site…) Articles and Texticles is now functioning (almost) normally after changing web hosting company. Yippee, I say. It was a somewhat fraught [...]
Categories: Announcement,Publishing,WordPress
Articles & Texticles is powered by WordPress publishing software. I like the way that WordPress works and the direction that its open source developers are taking it. From a webmaster’s point of view, WordPress is so much easier to administer when you compare it to the standard HTML based static website, especially when it [...]
Categories: Announcement,WordPress
There’s an interesting interplay of various brands of fear at work in this video. Would it work better without the sinister background drone? Will life be better for women with vindictive ex-partners? Link to NO2ID Link to Women’s Aid (Via The Daily Irrelevant) _______________________________________________________________________
Tagged: Add new tag, database, domestic violence, ID cards, stalking
Apologies for the absence of Articles & Texticles yesterday, my web hosting company (1and1.co.uk) were doing something unspeakable to the MySQL database servers and it took this site down for a few hours. I’m always a bit suspicious when I see the visitor stats crash down to almost nothing… (Click to enlarge) Fortunately there is [...]
Categories: Announcement
Tagged: , 1and1, database, MySQL, outage, web hosting
For those of you living outside the UK who might not have heard this dismal story, a hapless functionary at the HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs) sent 2 CDs containing the personal details of all families in the United Kingdom claiming child benefit to a firm of accountants who were contracted to audit the [...]
Categories: Politics,Privacy,Text
Tagged: , blunder, database, government
