From around 6PM GMT tonight the server will experience extended downtime for a number of hours whilst I re-image the server from Debian, to CentOS. I’m doing this for a number of reasons, but it’s mainly to increase security and stability and make up for some of Debians shortcomings! Sorry about the inconvenience

At approximately 11 pm thelongmile.net, cardifftweetups.co.uk, apptacious.com and casimireffectfilm.com all hosted on this server went down.
The server experienced a catastrophic failure which was caused by a bad command in the system scripts. The system has now been restored with the help of the folks at linode.com and the server is performing normally. I apologise [...]

http://www.thelongmile.net/2010/02/site-downtime/Click the post title to read more

I’ve been continually disturbed by the inaccuracies of the BBC technology reports as of late. The BBC used to be a fine, trusted news source with reliable accurate information even if it was a little slow to come to date, but today has really hit a nerve with me and I’ll explain why in a [...]

http://www.thelongmile.net/2010/02/how-computers-took-over-cars-more-like-another-rant-on-the-bbc-and-their-technology-editors/Click the post title to read more

Some months ago, I discovered

http://www.thelongmile.net/2010/01/announcing-a-new-project-the-alphabet-project/Click the post title to read more