Bags and baggage
Well, LeSinge.org will arrive back at my old matrix account in 24-ish hours. I know that, in the great scheme of things, losing a shell account and having to move your e-mail/website is somewhere below, say, breaking a nail, but it's the manner in which it happened that really fucks me off.

A bunch of scumbags took it upon themselves to orchestrate a DDoS on an inconsequential little server for absolutely no good reason, and now one guy's pride and joy, into which he and many others poured hours of work in their spare time has to come down. Free shell accounts with all the mod cons, not to mention free DNS hosting on a machine on a major ISP's backbone do not come around every day.

I'm really sorry for Colin but at least thankful for his giving me an account some 2 years ago. I've learned an awful lot of UNIXey, webby stuff, first on the NetBSD SPARC and then the FreeBSD i386. The advantage of having a backbone connection became really clear to me when I went abroad and realised just how fast dialling in was compared to my TCD accounts. It was brilliant while it lasted (not to mention damn near irreplaceable).

Thanks for everything. Shit that it had to end this way.