1 May (Part 3) - Minor updates
Obscene blog
The Detective Sergeant dealing with this matter phoned to say very little. He is
always polite and friendly and says he is still accepting advice from the Crown
Prosecution Service and assures me that things are going well. Only a cynic will
think that the case is on hold because it would be rather unfortunate for council leader
Teresa O’Neill to be caught up in a scandal immediately before her good friend stands
for another go at being Mayor of London.
Abbey Road flooding
The problem was far worse
at 7 a.m. this morning; people living on the south side of the road couldn’t leave
their houses without waders or a boat. The water covered the road and the southern footpath.
Soon after 9 a.m. a sucker from Bexley council - perhaps I should have rephrased that - was
busy pumping the water into its tank and the situation was much improved. Well done
whoever sorted that out, but something more permanent is required. It really has
been flood hazard for a quarter of a century.
Note: This picture was taken last Sunday and does not show the
full extent of today’s footway flooding.
The May blog
I switched www.bexley-is-bonkers.info to May at around 10 p.m. last night and
tested it. As usual some browsers picked it up straight away, others needed
their History or Temporary Files deleted.
I warned
about that in yesterday’s blog. Also as usual I received complaints (three
so far) that it is still routing to April.
The way it works is very simple for me to implement, it uses something called a 301 Redirect. Viz.
Redirect 301 /landing.php http://www.bexley-is-bonkers.co.uk/blogs/2012/may.php
The .info domain always routes to www.bexley-is-bonkers.co.uk/landing.shtml - a
page that doesn’t actually exist. The ‘301’ Redirection is a small file that
sits on the web server waiting to intercept requests for the ‘landing’ page. All I do is change the month in it. There are several
ways to achieve the same result. Next month I’ll try a different one, a bit more
work for me but maybe it will avoid the problem with browsers showing cached
pages rather than the new one.
Note: The site restructuring of
23rd November 2012 outdates the above comments.
in February 2015 blog pages adopted a .php suffix.