Three days of conference starting today so not much news to report.<\/p>\n
My new web host Gavin has been very busy on my behalf (I almost called him Nigel on an email just before; it\u2019s a similar sort of name, isn\u2019t it? Gavin has a Nigel vibe in my book.)<\/p>\n
He says I need to get rid of some of my subscribers. I was quite gratified to know I have 725 users registered, however he thinks a significant proportion are actually spam accounts. The most obvious ones are Russian, with \u201cru\u201d at the end of the email address. It\u2019s quite exciting in a Cold War sort of way that someone is trying to use my blog for nefarious political purposes. However, it would be very embarrassing to contribute to the collapse of democracy so I guess I\u2019ll have to follow his advice and start deleting some of the most egregious accounts. In fact so far I haven\u2019t recognised any of the names of people registered. Where are my so called friends and family? Imagine if you\u2019re all just bots? What am I even doing on here??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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