An Apology
I am aware that there have been problems with my site for the past few days. Cyber-wonks are working on this as we speak and all should be well soon. This is to apologise to anybody who has been unable to air urgent thoughts about Cornish pasties, cannibal footballers, Jeffrey Archer, Madonna's African tot, babyboomers, corporate babble, torture or The Moustache Brothers. All manner of thing shall be well when the server in question has been taken out and shot. Its last cigarette is now lit.
# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 11:31 AM
8 Comments:
At October 24, 2006 2:53 PM,
Neil Forsyth said…
Bryan, I must say I disagree with capital punishment in all circumstances and I am shocked by your cavalier attitude to it. Admittedly, out treatment at the hands of the server could be considered cruel and unusual, but I am a firm believer that violence only begets violence and I, for one, was positively Gandhi-like in my acceptance of my fate. I was willing to stay the course with server, appeal to its better side. But no...you had to go and snuff it out. Just like that. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
At October 24, 2006 8:17 PM,
Maxine said…
Those poor old cyberwonks, spending their days fixing up all these blogs and stuff.
Do you actually know Oliver Morton, Bryan? You remind me of him, somehow. Particularly this post.
At October 24, 2006 10:27 PM,
Susan Balée said…
Now I know how my son feels when World of Warcraft crashes and he can't log on.
At October 25, 2006 1:23 AM,
Daniel Scott Buck said…
Do you know what brand of cigarette? This could be a good plug for a Tobacco Company.
At October 25, 2006 6:25 AM,
Bryan Appleyard said…
Daniel, It was a Silk Cut Extra Mild, the server was worried about the effects of any stronger on his health.
Neil, Believe me we tried to make it see the error of its ways but it wouoldn't listen. We were left with no alternative.It expired like the executed man in Kafka's In the Penal Colony - in a state of bliss having finally grasped the nature of its crime.
At October 25, 2006 7:31 AM,
Bryan Appleyard said…
Oliver Morton? Maxine, I hadn't heard of him.
At October 25, 2006 9:10 AM,
Andrew said…
To use a sometime heard Irish phrase, I hope he died roaring in a ditch.
At October 25, 2006 6:35 PM,
Maxine said…
Oliver Morton is currently a colleague of mine at Nature, he's Chief News and Features Editor there. He wrote "mapping mars" (a book), was Editor of UK Wired and here is a collection of his articles in Prospect:
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/list.php?author=100.
He has a Mars blog but I don't think it is active just now.
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