Well after stuffing around trying to keep a server and an ADSL link up in another state I’ve decided that it just isn’t going to happen. My server appears to be off the ‘net at the moment. Probably because there was an ADSL line problem, but since I’m in another state it is pretty hard to give the ADSL modem a quiet kick in the guts to get everything working again.

So, an hour or two at the keyboard and probably about the same perusing documents on the python web site and I have come up with a solution. My blogmail script (linked on the right somewhere, if it works - must get that fixed) has been modified so that it will run on the server of my web host. Thankfully my web host is generous enough to proved an ssh login and all the goodies that go with getting access to a linux command line. One of those goodies is crontab - or the ability to run a specified program at certain times or intervals. So now when I send an email to my blog it will be processed no matter what, because that’s why I pay these guys money to host my web site.

Now that’s out of the way I guess I’ll actually have to get off my bum and start posting something to this thing.

Lucky for me that I am going on a bit of an around Australia trip over the next few months, so I should have a few things to write about. Even if those things are only my spectacular failures at kite surfing,

Enough for now, hopefully this works and ends up on the blog fairly soon.