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So, I thought I'd try accessing my old website from my spangly new Kindle ebook reader (as one does), only to be greeted with the unfortunate words, "Internal Server Error".
"Yikes!", thought I, for I was in the car park at Stockwell and Cohen's, and testing whether or not the free 3G was in fact locked down or not (so far, it appears not to be).
Upon my return, I investigated as to exactly What Was Up With My Site.
Imagine my delight to discover that the version of perl my site was running on and relied upon had been "upgraded" (by the looks of things I'd been migrated from an old 32-bit server to a newer, 64-bit server), which obviously caused all manner of things to stop working. However, after reinstalling and rebuilding a billion and one dependencies (in the correct order) and effectively hammering certain components in with the digital equivalent of the heel of my shoe, things finally seem to be up and running again.
I don't know when it stopped working, and judging by the torrent of, "Hey Chris, your site is down!" emails, neither does anyone else.
But it has lead me to thinking that I really ought to make an effort to post the occasional thing on here every now and again. It's been a long time since September 2009, and a whole lot of water has been passed.
I can't promise that there will be a resurrgence in activity here -- after all, I've not really done much here for much longer than that last-posted date would suggest -- but I'll certainly try to keep things ticking over, if only to make sure that this thing is still working.
Happy New Year, folks!