• Wikileaks is in trouble, with less than a month's operating costs to hand. I gave them £50.

• NewsTechnica: Sony BMG beats Sony BMG to Christmas number one; Donaldson declares "brave new world" of spare parts; Lily Allen quits "talking complete bollocks"; Holy See declares unique copyright on priestly molestations; Microsoft Word recalled due to contamination.

That's it for work until Tuesday. Now to survive Christmas.

NewsTechnica is going from strength to strength, which is to say it looks pretty and might hit three figures of visitors a day. Do please tell your friends.

(I share a host with lemonparty.org and k-k-k.com, and there's a reason I didn't link either of those. As neither of the actual owners of the server in question have touched it in ages — which is why the logs were broken until I fixed them — it appears I am in fact the sysadmin for these venerable Internet landmarks. Oh dear. I thought the box was running CentOS, but it's increasingly apparent it's running this.)

If you have this problem, where you can't get anything out of awstats and it turns out to be because your Apache logs contain nothing but the word "combined", once per line, over and over — this is because cPanel b0rked your httpd.conf and left out the LogFormat lines. Apache then presumes the word "combined" at the end of the CustomLog line is not a direction on how to log, but the actual log format. Cut'n'paste them from httpd.conf.orig and somehow beat cPanel into putting them into its RCS.

(cPanel is source-available proprietary software to make LAMP stupid. Our host is at the stage where I'm very glad I have years of expertise beating Apache around, and sudo.)

• NewsTechnica: UK announces clampdown on "science".

So, Friday night I was drunk down the pub with nyecamden, genetikayos, a laptop and wifi, and I slipped on a credit card and bought NewsTechnica.com. (I was actually quite surprised this was available — pretty much everything has been squatted.) I spent yesterday setting up the latest WordPress, importing the text from the previous site and tweaking the theme within an inch of its life. (It's a freebie they give away to entice you to buy the commercial version. Spelling errors in the configuration dialogues, cut'n'paste coding and localisation is something that happens to other people. I'll be uploading my version when I've finished.) Along the way, I wrote my first MySQL updating program in PHP. Today I had to leave behind the technical wizardry and do the hard bit: write something. A decent start, I hope.

(today.com has cut pay in half and doubled the advertising in its obnoxiousness. I went to NotN yesterday and got a floating ad in the middle of the page. FUCK OFF, DIE. They're clearly running out of money and getting desperate. FLOATING ADS EQUALS FAIL. I might bother with ads on the new site, or I might not — NotN was netting me about £30/month; I make approximately 120 times that working a proper job.)

So. Update your bookmarks and links!

I'll be needing a new set of business cards then.

GreenReaper exmly hot. GreenReaper push herb.

It's late. I can only see the glow of the screen, and my hands. I'm a tad feverish. I'm on holiday.

I'd be upset if I wasn't in a warm bed with water, ibuprofen and a chocolate cookie. Also making great progress over the last week on what I hope will be a kickass new community website. Well, sort of new. You'll see.

Also, this is shiny.

Maybe self rest now . . . *z-Z-Z*

• Rocknerd: lupus; Hell freezes over.

SNOW!!!

Last night I got mugged, for the first time ever. Five odious little scrotes after what they could get. I'm fine, just very pissed off. HULK WRITE STERN LETTER. One punched me (they scattered when I swung back), breaking a filling. They got my headphones. My laptop hit the pavement and has a pile of scuffs and a really bad hole and crack in the case, but that's why work has insurance. The police popped around and were very nice and helpful. Dentist on Friday.

arkady bought me replacement Skullcandies off Amazon :-D

I stopped at the poundshop today and got £1 in-ear 'phones. They're pink with diamantes on them. "Stylish earphones with fab bling!" says the package. Surprisingly, they're complete shit. Who'da thunk?

Lunch with nyecamden today. He was just the tonic.

We have shown Freda "here is the church here, is the steeple, open the doors and there's all the people." BEST GAME EVER, BETTER THAN TV.