Another new website can't cope.

The newly launch website to handle petitions for a parliamentary debate is suffering from overload:

You didn't really want to sign did you?

I think those first two lines sum up a lot really.

High demand in the early days was predictable of course. The problem is if it can't cope with petitions with publicity as they come up.

PS I got this as I was trying to sign one of the petitions against the reintroduction of the death penalty as advertised over at LibDem Voice.

Update: Sorry for an update so soon after posting but the site started working (briefly).  I think there must be more fundamental problems than usage levels given the low number of signatures on the petitions.  The highest is about 1800 (at the time of writing) for Martin Shapland's anti-death penalty petition above.

I write like...

Nwhyte (over at From the Heart of Europe) posted a link to I write like. He did the nice idea of chucking real published authors at it to see what happened.

So I thought I'd be boring and stick in a few of my posts and see who I write like.

So my world cup final preview is Isaac Asimov

I write like
Isaac Asimov

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

OK fair enough. Not sure where the robots are but I can live with that.

My Simak post would fit Asimov better but...

I write like
Stephen King

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Not sure why.

Worryingly my rant about Alan Johnson was said to be

I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

Lovecraft? Really?

But worst of all was the first bit of my post on the Iranian stoning case.

I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

James Joyce. I didn't think it was that bad!