I Broke Everything, Then I Fixed It

Eagle eyed (well, those with eyes; and those with screenreaders actually) readers will have noticed that the main page of Stuporcollider has been a bit broken recently.

My bad.

Do you want to know what was wrong? Really? Can you handle the complexity? Well strap yourself in, here we go!

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You see that? That’s ASCII character 34 (or 22 in hex. I heard you at the back), commonly known as the speech mark, quote mark or double dash (I work with strange people). Here’s a well formed link:

<a href="http://link.com">This is a link!</a>

and here’s what I wrote:

<a href="http://link.com>This is a broken link!</a>

Spot the gargantuan cockup? Took me an hour to find it. My apologies are boundless. See how I placate you with Michael Bay eating a bowl of cereal?

Tags: cockup, neil sucks at html, site maintenance

Stuporcollider vs. The Russian Mafia

IT’S ALIVE!

Hi folks, just got back from seeing Goldfrapp in Leicester and found that our little weekend problem has been sorted! Apparently the server our box is hosted on was the victim of a DDoS attack lasting most of the weekend, hence the reason why the site has been redirecting to an error page. We’re all good now so enjoy, and remember to keep your Windows patched and you malware checkers up to date! Zombies are only cool in horror films.

P.S. Goldfrapp were awesome, support guy not so much. Watch the quite brilliant video to A&E with gusto:

Tags: music, site maintenance, zombies