Cllr Iain Lindley - Salford City Councillor for Walkden South Ward
You are, it seems, now reading the 131st most popular political blog in the country.
Okay, so it’s all a bit of fun, but congratulations to everyone who made the list (especially those in the upper echelons) and many thanks to everyone who was kind enough to include my blog on their lists of Top 20 blogs from which the overall ranking was obtained.
Nevertheless as someone with a natural competitive streak I shall be looking to improve my ranking next year!
I’m about to upgrade to the new version of K2, which is the excellent template this site is built on. My blog software WordPress has also released a brand-new version so I will be installing that over the next day or so as well. Hopefully it will all run smoothly, but there is always the small possibility that I’ll press the wrong button somewhere along the line, so if there are any glitches please let me know!
There shouldn’t be any downtime although the sidebars might get rearranged for a short while.
UPDATE: The sidebars on the new version of K2 seem to be a little bit temperamental, so I’ve reverted back to the old version for the time being. I can change back with one click of the mouse button if needbe.
A big thank-you to everyone who has updated their blogroll with the new address for this site. If you’re reading this and still have a link to the old blog.iainlindley.com address, I would be very grateful if you could upgrade the link to this new location.
I am still (slowly) rebuilding my own blogroll. If your site has a link to this blog and you’d like me to reciprocate, leave me a comment and I’ll see what I can do!
In the meantime, a further thank-you to David Ottewell, Chris Paul and Tim Montgomerie who all helpfully blogged the location of this reincarnated diary. Cheers!
As you can see by looking on the left sidebar, I’m in the process of rebuilding my blogroll. Please don’t be offended if your blog hasn’t appeared yet!
Leave me a comment if you’d like me to add your site to my blogroll. If you’d like me to add you, I’d be very grateful if you would also add the new address of this site to your own set of links.
After an enforced and unplanned sabbatical, Cllr Iain Lindley’s Diary is now back up and running, albeit from a slightly different location.
I’ve used the same company to host my blog since I started blogging in 2004 - it seems a long time ago now! My hosting was excellent value for money and I have never had cause to complain. Unfortunately about a month ago, a problem with another site hosted on the same server forced the whole lot offline. This was out of my control and out of my host’s control. I had no notice so I was unable to back up my data, including the archives for this blog.
I had hoped that the situation would resolve itself quickly and I would have been able to resume blogging, but unfortunately it is now clear that this is not the case. In the circumstances, I have decided to pick up blogging again on a new server, and so here I am!
I hope to regain control of the blog.iainlindley.com web address soon, and I will redirect the address to this new site when I am able to do so. I don’t know when I’ll get access to my data but I will import all the archives onto this new blog when I manage to do so.
Thank you to everyone who has e-mailed or messaged me asking when my blog will be back, it’s good to know that there are people out there reading what I write!
It’s good to be back.
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