Countdown to new Dear Diary

Hi all,     The DearDiary server has now moved (back to the US in fact) and if you're able to read this then you're looking at the new server (the old one is switched off presently). Hamipiks has NOT yet moved and is not serving pictures at the moment – but it will be moving…

I’ve been advised that the server is chucking out a LOT of Internal Server Errors. Not for every request, but for enough for it to be considerably annoying. At the moment I have very limited information to go because there’s nothing in the log file to indicate why this is happening (although it does indicate…

Progress on the code moves along slowly at the moment, such is the nature of the week, hopefully i’ll be able to make atleast a little progress in the evenings and at the weekend. Until then, it’s a planning exercise and a dreaming exercise to try and decide what to do and where to go….

I’ve linked the Search button on the front page to go directly and easily to the relevant Google query boxes… Hopefully the result isn’t too bad. I’m not happy about it, but there’s not much I can do. Steve.

I’ve had a bit of fun with the public images, but in doing the things with those, I noticed that for some bizarre reason the PRIVATE images that people had uploaded always appeared in the drop down lists at the bottom… I’ve changed this so they’re listed first… Should save too much messing about… I…

A database query managed to pull the whole site over, resulting in the need to close down and restart the database. Unfortunately when it came back up it decided to overwrite its replication logs from the beginning and as such would have destroyed the backup database replication. I’ve taken a snapshot of the database now…