Well it has taken me a week to sort this bloody thing out. It took about three days to diagnose exactly what the problem was and then another four to work out how to fix it.

It appears that the lovely people at Awardspace.com have an extensive banned words list and if you happen to put one of them in a post then whenever you try to open a page that contains the word it will boot you to a default awardspace page. You would think that this is not necessarily a bad thing, keep the bad language down. Problem is the filter isn’t designed for swearing, it’s designed to weed out posts with references to other sites. For example, a popular method of paying for your items online, lets call it ‘pay friend’, mention that site in a post and you’re blocked. The same with a popular online store that sounds a little ‘ama con’. So, when a little while ago I posted an entry entitled ‘Age… and the art of buying consumer durables’ that dealt with me looking into purchasing a digital dictaphone, awardspace kindly blocked out the post.

The dificulty I then had was in finding exactly what post had caused the problem, and as I don’t like their ideas about restricting my freedom of speech I wanted to back up that entry somewhere so that I could repost it (which i shall do next). All told not an easy task as whenever I tried to access anything to do with that particular post, awardspace frustrated me. I don’t understand what the purpose of this policy of theirs is but I know that it stinks. As soon as I can I’m off somewhere else and they can stick their free hosting where the sun don’t shine.

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