Getting back to serious research and writing

Posted on 8. June 2011 by Vince Giuliano

The last three weeks has seen a series of blog problems and a hiatus of new postings.  Now the last of these problems are being straightened out and I and my colleague Victor are getting back to serious writing. Here is what happened and where we are now:
1.         Having accumulated some 360 posts and a thousand comments, the blog ran out of allocated space in my web hosting service and no longer accepted any new postings.
2.       After significant prodding the web hosting service installed an updated version of the Blog software and ported our historical blog content to it.  This worked to increase our space but had two serious unintended consequences.
a.       First, the move attracted the attention of web comment spammers who started bombarding the blog with spam comments, as many as 260 a day.  This required launching a war on spam which I believe is now won,   See the blog entry Spam update.  If there is a remaining problem, I will take additional steps.  If you are a reader and have a problem with a legitimate comment, please e-mail me personally at vegiuliano@comcast.net.

b.  Second, past blog entries ported to the new software started to show up with Strange characters in blog posts.  The character mapping used in the blog conversion was faulty.  Obvious fixes applied by my hosting company did not work.  A loyal reader of this blog, Abhijit Mhapsekar has been extremely helpful in providing me with fixes that have so far taken care of 95% of the problem by correcting for the most frequently-found misinterpreted characters.  Abhijit and I have spotted a number of other instances of misinterpreted characters and are in the process of correcting for those as well.   Also, a few past entries show up now with double line spacing.  However, all past blog posts remain essentially readable.

3.       These technical glitches have consumed much of my time so there have been no substantive new blog postings since May 23.  This situation should change soon.  I am working on a new posting which will be an Update on cell reprogramming and induced pluripotent stem cells which should be available in a day or two and I understand that Victor is also working on a new post.
Thank you for y our patience during this transition period.  Despite these issues at least a dozen new legitimate blog registrations are coming every day and blog traffic continues to increase with an average of about 2,000 unique users accessing an average of 1.7 blog entries every day.  Here is to the long haul, both for increasing human longevity and for increasing the life of this blog!

Vince

About Vince Giuliano

Being a follower, connoisseur, and interpreter of longevity research is my latest career, since 2007. I believe I am unique among the researchers and writers in the aging sciences community in one critical respect. That is, I personally practice the anti-aging interventions that I preach and that has kept me healthy, young, active and highly involved at my age, now 93. I am as productive as I was at age 45. I don’t know of anybody else active in that community in my age bracket. In particular, I have focused on the importance of controlling chronic inflammation for healthy aging, and have written a number of articles on that subject in this blog. In 2014, I created a dietary supplement to further this objective. In 2019, two family colleagues and I started up Synergy Bioherbals, a dietary supplement company that is now selling this product. In earlier reincarnations of my career. I was Founding Dean of a graduate school and a full University Professor at the State University of New York, a senior consultant working in a variety of fields at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Chief Scientist and C00 of Mirror Systems, a software company, and an international Internet consultant. I got off the ground with one of the earliest PhD's from Harvard in a field later to become known as computer science. Because there was no academic field of computer science at the time, to get through I had to qualify myself in hard sciences, so my studies focused heavily on quantum physics. In various ways I contributed to the Computer Revolution starting in the 1950s and the Internet Revolution starting in the late 1980s. I am now engaged in doing the same for The Longevity Revolution. I have published something like 200 books and papers as well as over 430 substantive.entries in this blog, and have enjoyed various periods of notoriety. If you do a Google search on Vincent E. Giuliano, most if not all of the entries on the first few pages that come up will be ones relating to me. I have a general writings site at www.vincegiuliano.com and an extensive site of my art at www.giulianoart.com. Please note that I have recently changed my mailbox to vegiuliano@agingsciences.com.
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