At the end of last week I upgraded my server from Ubuntu Intrepid to Jaunty (and have since gone all the way up to Lucid, a process that was not as simple as I would have liked). As far as I could tell, everything had gone smoothly, but my blog was unavailable (which I discovered very quickly thanks to the automated Pingdom emails). My blog runs on php-fastcgi b...

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I’ve been having some trouble with my server over the last few months so the blog may be up and down over the next few days as I move to a new hosting provider.

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I meant to blog about this when I first read it at the beginning of last month, but I kept forgetting. Yoz’s CSS blogwank rant includes a genius solution (read: hack/workaround) for a problem I was having centring my content on http://philwilson.org. If you care about CSS, go and read it.

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The most unintentionally funny post I’ve read on a blog for a long long time: Generating a nonce is easy I’m sure cryptologists are stony-faced. 🙂

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