Category: Housekeeping

Apologies to anyone who tried to look at the site over the past couple of days and saw the enigmatic message “It Works!”. We had not in fact been hacked. It was a hangover from earlier attempts to migrate to a new server. Unfortunately the server administrator was on holiday, so there was nothing we could do about it. The first thing he did on his return was to get everything operational, even if the site isn’t quite as pretty as it might have been. Or is it better? Let us know. About other stuff too.

More tweaks later, if necessary.

OK, you have spoken. We won’t place adverts on the site, for now. While we recognize our right to do so, we note also that we exist to serve you, our readers. The poll can stay up a little longer, just for fun.

The good people at Online College Blog have been so kind as to include us at the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog, as well as Vaviblog and other friends and acquaintances, in their Top 100 list of botany blogs. We’re honoured. Have fun exploring the list.

While we’re not willing to review or link to entirely unrelated sites, we are willing to share a bit of Google-juice, for example with Gary Robertson, who asked us nicely to link to The Green Providers Directory. Not a lot there on seeds, but take that as an opportunity.

We got a very polite email from a robot recently, asking us to write an unbiased review of a website in exchange for money, or a free sample of the goods the site was flogging. We took a look, but we couldn’t see any possible link to agricultural biodiversity, so we turned down the nice robot’s offer. But it set us thinking. If we’re that popular, should we put a discreet advert above (or below) our most recent post? Should we have a Tip Jar so all you happening types with PayPal accounts can micro-reward us? Maybe an Amazon wish list? Recalling, however, that we live to serve you, our readers, we thought we’d ask you directly. So there’s a new poll, over there on the right. Vote early, and vote often. You have (about) a week. You can also comment on this post if you feel the poll options are unduly constraining.