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Written By: notices and features
Date published: - 4 comments

Professor Paul Callaghan from Victoria University introduces the ‘Think Tech’ site via video. Panelists will look at what sorts of new technologies, in […]

Maintenance and upgrades

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 25 comments

The latest load of bill-paying work has finished (and the site is paid up until June). I’m at a relatively loose end for […]

Israel – a failed democracy

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 86 comments

The following quoted text is a e-mail response by Mike Treen from Global Peace and Justice Auckland to someone who was complaining about […]

Caching Fixes

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 15 comments

There has been a on-going issue with some readers not getting updates through in a timely fashion in the sidebars when posts and […]

Playing with rankings

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 10 comments

Since the 16th of November, I’ve been running an experiment with the Alexa ranking system to look at the site sensitivity in rankings […]

Another upgrade

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 7 comments

Another upgrade complete. As per usual let me know if any problems (that I didn’t find in testing) show up. Please let me […]

More optimization

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 14 comments

I’ve just put another round of optimizations into the system. In this case caching the p-code generated by php into shared memory This […]

Peak traffic

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 16 comments

Some comments on Sunday about this site performing well induced me to have a look at the traffic over the last week. I […]

Maintenance

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 9 comments

There will be some scheduled maintenance at the hosting company tonight between 10pm and 6am. During that period the site may be offline […]

Upgrade time again

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 33 comments

I’m on ‘holiday’ for the next few weeks to contribute some campaign work. However it will also give me some time to do […]

The Standard turns one

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 26 comments

Today’s our first birthday. A year ago I had the privilege of the first post. It was on John Key’s contradictory statements about […]

Reminder: Drinking Liberally Auckland

Written By: lprent
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Remember that Drinking Liberally Auckland is having its inaugural session tomorrow with David Slack. Note it in your schedules and tell your left-leaning […]

Blog reader survey

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 2 comments

Dear Blog Reader, My name is Andrew Cushen, and I am conducting a survey of New Zealand Political Blog Readers. This survey is part […]

Happy 1000th.

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 11 comments

Well that happened fast. This is the 1001st public post on The Standard. That is assuming I get it in before the next […]

Upgrades: Hardware

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 13 comments

 Upgrade is complete There will be a hardware upgrade on monday during working hours (still trying to get the time). The site will […]

Updates – gravatar/identicon

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 33 comments

The latest tweak on the system are Gravatar/Identicons. Read about it on this site in the Gravatar menu item. Apart from the graphics, […]

Tweaking the updates

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 17 comments

Yesterday’s site issues were due to a combination of inadequate Expires (causing a lot more files being transmitted) and the web-crawlers grabbing the […]

Upgrades

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 73 comments

I upgraded the site tonight. There have been a lot of security fixes since we pushed a test site together in August 2007. […]

Extra weight

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 6 comments

A reader pointed out a set of hidden spam links that had attached themselves to the footer of the site. I’d noticed them […]

Oops.

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 25 comments

There was a reboot on the server last night for some reason about 20 hours ago, and the database process failed to start. […]

Happy New Year

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 15 comments

Cyber-Santa came a little late to The Standard this year but we’re certainly not complaining – evidently we’ve got a New Year’s present […]

Christmas wishes

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 5 comments

Well I didn’t get my pony but I hope everyone’s Christmas was as enjoyable as mine. I’m just finishing some peanut butter on […]

Don’t panic

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 8 comments

A few readers have written in complaining they’re getting a strange message in their browser when they visit the site. Turns out that […]

Time for an upgrade

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 21 comments

So the Herald links to us from the front page of their website this afternoon, and the resulting traffic knocks out our server. […]

Outage

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: -

Some server issues outside our control caused a bit of an outage this afternoon. We’re up and running again now though, as you […]

a_y_b: MIA

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: -

Apologies for my silence, I’ve been having a Microsoft Word nightmare. When mail merge would work, the printer wouldn’t; when the printer would […]