A new upgrade to the Hiawatha Web server from the PPA appears to be completely broken. Lighttpd is being used as a fallback to keep the site up while I investigate and decide what to do. If anything non-functional appears (most likely when attempting HTTPS connections), incomplete configuration of the new server daemon is the likely …

At some point e-mail stopped being passed to my Gmail account. I’d been using my registrar’s nameservers, which seem not to accept AAAA record entries, so IPv6 was enabled on the server but not associated with the domain. Hence there was no IPv6 rDNS either. At some point Gmail started rejecting e-mails on these grounds: lateish …

Public service announcement: I’ve turned off Feedburner redirection for the weblog. If you’re subscribed to the Atom feed via a feedburner.com or feedburner.google.com Atom/RSS URL, it will redirect you for a short while and then switch off, so please do ensure you're using the http://rfjseddon.net/log/atom/1 feed URL.

I thought I’d use some of this server’s spare resources to help further the good of humanity, by volunteering them for number-crunching on Berkeley’s BOINC programme, which is supposed to aid distributed research efforts by unobtrusively making use of idle system resources. Unfortunately, things didn’t quite work out.

...is clearly impeccable.

At long last this new site has reached enough of a functional state to be presented to the world at large. Here’s to a long and happy life for it...