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OK, I’ve had enough. Its time to clamp down again because some people at this site are spoiling it for the majority…. Two clarifications now, and I shall start acting on any requests sent to abuse@deardiary.net that I find to be accurate and infringe on the Terms and Conditions (URL later) and these two extra…

Not a system announcement, but related to the tragedy in the US. We received this nice poem in the mail from one of our users and thought we’d share it. the gap by elysabeth forrest there’s a gap in the famed skyline where two towers used to stand in the place of the majestic scene…

Good heavens! 20,000 public diaries now available to be read! I’ve noticed also that the number of diaries updated in the last week and 24 hours has dramatically increased too!! Thanks for choosing DearDiary.Net to write at – keep up the good work folks, lets chronicle history through the eyes of the normal (heh!) person!…

Damselita asks : All my hits for the last couple of days are “unresolved”. Is that part of the new deal? Blessings! We’ve dropped the unresolved processing back to once a day, it too was causing a bit of a nasty load on the server. Hopefully everything will have caught up again by tomorrow when…

What does the phrase ‘a lot more inefficient’ actually mean? It must be too late in the day for writing semi meaningful entries. Of course, I really meant, a lot LESS EFFICIENT… Jeez. Time for bed.

The AtomIC Server fell over at around 16:00 Finnish time (14:00 UK time or (I think) 09:00 New York time?) with a serious problem with the database. For some odd reason best known to itself, the mysql process decided it was no longer going to respond to anything. Even (for those in the UNIX know)…