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Clarkson Sacked, Etc

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I’m sure most of you know that Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson was sacked after a “fracas” with a producer.

I think it’s sad that the BBC chose a resolution that punishes pretty much anyone who likes the show. Clarkson, I suspect, will simply move on to somewhere else while enjoying a larger paycheck, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Andy Wilman (Top Gear producer), James May and Richard Hammond joined him to create a new show.

The old Top Gear, however, will have to reinvent itself, with new presenters and angry fans less likely to keep on watching. I’m pretty sure that the fantastic 350 million viewers worldwide every week figure will soon be a thing of the past and the BBC will have to get that particular piece of their weekly budget from somewhere else. Mainly, I suspect, from the viewers.

Hello world!

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I used to host sgmlguru.org in my basement, using an old Debian box and a dynamic DNS feature in my VDSL router. The site would go down at regular intervals, sometimes because I got a new IP address and the DynDNS service didn’t follow, and sometimes because that box runs Debian Unstable and I’m an apt-get junkie, updating the system at least a couple of times a week.

This was rather unreliable and didn’t reflect on my internet presence very favourably, so yesterday I finally had enough and bought myself a $7/month VPS at VPSDime. Nothing fancy, just Debian 7 with 6GB RAM running on OpenVZ. While I’m not a expert by any means, I do have some command line experience on Debian, so setting up a basic server with WordPress and some other stuff via SSH was extremely easy.

I have to say I’m really, really pleased.

A Note

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Noting it’s been two months since I last wrote anything here, I feel it is time to add the following:

If you hoped for a new version of ProXist (as hinted by a previous blog entry), sorry. It has not happened yet. It will, eventually.

If you expected something else from me, sorry again. It has not happened yet. It might, if I find out what you’re on about.

Contact me if you want blame assigned.

Paper Woes

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I managed to submit my Balisage paper on time, in case you wondered.

Also, I still think my basic idea is a good one. It’s simple and, I think, useful. So simple, in fact, that I’m worried that everybody but me thinks it’s perfectly obvious.

::sigh::