Niggardly!
andersja’s blog: American Political Correctness & the word “Niggardly”
A wonderful essay on language, and ignorance, and political correctness, and the wrongs that result. I couldn’t have said it better myself (so I won’t).
posted at 9:15 pm on Tuesday, September 03, 2002 in General | Comments (4)
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Hi Harald, and thanks for your positive feedback :-) I’m sure the follow-up will interest you as well.
Please note it seems something is wonky with your Movable Type installation; the TrackBack pings are not registered (maybe your MT install doesn’t reply properly? I don’t know) so other people pinging you send the ping over and over (I see it has happened before to you as well). Try to write a test-article and ping yourself to see if you experience similar problems; then head over to the MT support-forum at movabletype.org :-)
It turns out that my webserver is too slow. It takes ~25 seconds for my site to process a trackback ping; the MT timeout is set to only 10 seconds. So I receive the ping and process it (eventually), but you don’t get the reply fast enough, and so retry.
10 seconds is way to short, IMHO. Network delays and heavily loaded servers could easily add that much delay.
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