I dugg the previous article after I wrote it, not expecting much. It was a surprise hit with the Net Two-Point-Naughters (allow me the priviledge of coining the phrase!). Close to 300 views on Saturday! Thanks to all who cared to pay that bit of attention to my dilemma. I was completely taken aback by the personal privacy debate that ensued – check out the comments to that post to see how hot the water got – but of course I'm honoured that my blog had the fleeting distinction of being a battleground for the American Cautiousness vs European Liberalism blah-blah*.
Of course a few of the commentators mistook me for an American who would best forsake some of my personal rights for the security of my nation. While I agree with some of your thoughts, I'll direct you to the title of this blog, Grigori on Europe. Yes, I live in Europe. Ireland to be exact. A neutral country since its inception. But neutrality, it seems, doesn't count when you do business with an American company. On that note, I'm switching to an English host, Phurix, who I've used for the past year now and are very nice to work with, as soon as the line draws level on the Foreign-Government Agitation Scale.
If one is to believe that America is a country is at war then I suppose it's only natural that the normal rules for doing business with warring countries still applies. In case you weren't aware, a contract may legally be declared void if one party must reneague as a result (direct or indirect) or his country being at war. I'm not a lawyer so I don't know how far this might apply if ever invoked in an American court. But the general rule is 'Don't do business with a country in a state of war'. So be it.
I came up from Kerry as early as I can to get the website back up. The train looked like a relic from pre-War of Independence days. I could imagine Collins sitting on the table across from me, wringing his hands in thought! I brought my camera up with me so the photos are below. Or at least should be; this is my first attempt at using Flickr, I don't know how it's going to turn out.
So I restored the website from assorted backups, took about 2 hours but at least I haven't lost anything (to the best of my knowledge…)
(* = as they call it in France = argument)
EDIT: Ok I can't figure this Flickr out. I'm tired an got an exam tomorrow so I refuse to trawl through forums for this – anyone care to help me out? Even wordpress is at me, it won't let me edit HTML properly. I add html (yes I do click the HTML button) but it seems to interpret it as regular rich text. What the fuck?
