Due to the attempted denial of service attack recently I’ve been a bit more jumpy about who’s visiting my site and that means I’m examining a good deal of IPs that show suspicious behaviour. I’m starting to get a better idea of who reads this site (and there are a surprising number).
One that’s come on [...]
Bridge Ward News
News from Bridge Ward, Ipswich including the Hayes, Old Stoke, Prince of Wales Drive, Maidenhall Estate and Wherstead Road
Browsing the archives for the About us category
10 Mar 10
Hello Chris Mole
8 Mar 10
Comments
No, I haven’t turned them off (deliberately).
I have gone through various security measures to stop a denial of service attack that may have been aimed at taking this blog down, and while this seems to have been successful something I have done, or my hosting provider has done seems to have disabled the comments. Please feel [...]
28 Feb 10
Bandwidth Problems
I’ve had a couple of polite emails from my hosting service that I’m almost at my monthly bandwidth limit as in the last few months the bandwidth usage has been creeping up and is now three times what it was a couple of months ago. This has not been helped by the Israeli, Russian and South [...]
18 Oct 09
Guest Post: Report from the ASDA opening
Neil Shadbolt has put in a report on what’s happened to the local food shops since the new ASDA has opened. If anyone else wants to write a guest post then please email me on james@bridgeward.org.uk
It is some 6-8 weeks since the Stoke Park Asda store opened at Stoke Park, so I thought it time [...]
Filed in About us
17 Oct 09
Slow posting
I’ve got an exam that I’ve not done enough study for so the posts will be less frequent until the Monday after next.
I’ll still be watching Spanish cement ships, though.
Filed in About us
11 Oct 09
House move pain
As some of you know I’m moving from Rectory Road to Belstead Avenue soon (I’ll give out the address when I’m in the house). However BT in their enthusiasm have jumped the gun which means I’m effectively without a landline until then.
Normal service will resume and emails will be answered then.
I’ve had someone complain about [...]
25 Sep 09
Phew – one pratfall avoided
I’ve got another Tory leaflet hitting the streets, and I checked through it more than twice – making a number of changes. I finally signed it off and got it approved to go to the printers.
So I copy some of this on to my blog. Then to my horror I saw a misspelling. And not [...]
14 Sep 09
Storing audio clips
Does anyone know a good place to store audio clips. I’ve got a couple of good clips from local radio that I’d like to share but can’t afford to blast my bandwidth.
Comments continued
I’ve got the comments back, sort of. I’ve installed a new comment system, disqus and I’m trying to integrate the existing comments in to this.