Diolch Brychan! VERY interesting. What the specific connection was with this site I have no idea, but from what you say it seems to have been a “shotgun” approach – with the attack not being specific but rather targeting data centres’ blocks of server IP addresses, so many innocent sites were affected along with the general target.

Measures have since then been put in place to minimise future attacks from certain sources. A bit of a wake-up call though.

Most supermarkets. The Co-op usually has a range of Argie reds.

No it wasn’t a proxy server – the trace was a bit more involved than just getting an IP address – it was quite a serius attack & drew a bit of attention – more than the usual wry smile of annoyance. However proxy servers are a bane when it comes to tracking down the naughty little boys with too much time on their hands! “They can run but they can’t hide” to quote a famous American!!!

No he’s still knocking about pretending to be a journalist. Writes weekly guest posts on Labour Uncut ( http://labour-uncut.co.uk/ ) called ‘Letters From Wales’ – in which he basically rubbishes Wales, the Welsh language and culture, Welsh Labour, all other welsh parties, in fact anything loosely connected to Wales.

Jools! I’d almost forgotten about him. Didn’t he leave the country? Or was it just a promise?

another candidate? Julian Ruck

You talked of the ‘attack’ coming from Israel. It’s probably somebody who doesn’t want you to know who they are eg somebody you’ve been having dealing on here with before and who are using a proxy-server. They’re not difficult to set up at all. For example, a lot of people living in China use them in order to use Facebook or Twitter or even to view blogs and forums which are blocked by the Chinese government.

There were many strange arguments in circulation at the time of the devolution referendum, and later, when Ron Davies was ‘deciding’ where to locate the Assembly. I recall a nationalist of my acquaintance in Swansea arguing that if the Assembly came to Swansea then people in Cardiff would be so annoyed that they’d ‘turn their backs on Wales’. He supported the Cardiff bid. Fourteen years of devolution have proved him right in a way he could never have foreseen. Though many of us knew exactly what would happen, we’d already seen it with Glamorgan County Cricket Club and other instances where Cardiff grabbed and the rest of Wales paid.

I suspected the politicians of all the mainstream parties would share the same bias and favoritism towards Cardiff that is/has been so obviously displayed by BBC Wales, The Western Mail and others etc. I think I may have been right?