The Euston Manifesto » site administration http://eustonmanifesto.org for a renewal of progressive politics Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:53:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Fresh Start http://eustonmanifesto.org/2009/02/14/fresh-start/ http://eustonmanifesto.org/2009/02/14/fresh-start/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:39:03 +0000 Damian Counsell http://eustonmanifesto.org/?p=3 Euston was cracked in the small hours today (14Feb09) by a script kiddie in Saudi Arabia. This is understandable (or perhaps “mbunderstandable”): the boy was probably inspired by that country’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Vice cracking down on Valentine’s Day, a festival created by “immoral Westerners” specifically to oppress him.

I’d been too busy to keep up with regular maintenance on the site and had been relaxed about the set-up here so it would be easy for other Eustonians to contribute. Now, I’ve moved the site from a managed host to my own server, removed and/or secured all compromised user accounts, and installed the latest WordPress.

Euston will be pretty quiet until the dead-tree collection of Euston essays comes out, so this is a good opportunity to clean out the site database, which is likely to be corrupted, and start from scratch, updating the text of posts from my back-ups.

More soon.

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Because of this I and Andrew Regan have to devote a lot of time to manually pruning the database of fake signatories. We will try to solve this problem when we migrate the whole of the site to WordPress, but neither of us has the time to do this long and involved job right now.

I am therefore suspending the sign-up form. If you would like to sign the manifesto please email the address manifesto at the domain eustonmanifesto.org.

]]> http://eustonmanifesto.org/2007/04/09/spam/feed/ 0 Welcome! http://eustonmanifesto.org/2006/04/08/welcome/ http://eustonmanifesto.org/2006/04/08/welcome/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:01:41 +0000 Damian Counsell http://eustonmanifesto.org/?p=274 This is the Website of a new democratic progressive alliance.

You can read the Euston Manifesto here.

Please link to: http://www.eustonmanifesto.org/

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