To Jami

Greetings all,     I'm sorry to have to announce that there'll be another server move shortly. The good news for most users is that the DD server will be returning to the US with this move, which should improve response times for those users. The new host appears to have very good international connections and…

Some of you have noticed, and alerted us, of occasional error screens when trying to access the site. I have caught a couple of these in mid-session so to speak and believe it is being caused by a database lock. What appears to be happening is that MySQL is generally pretty clever about how it…

We have been advised by our solicitors that information covered by the privacy policy can be given to other law agencies, without necessarily being threatened with a court order. Such a policy would be costly to us because we could have to appear in court in whatever country the problem is occuring. Thus, the wording…

We went to visit Selena today in hospital. She’s in a great deal of pain but in good spirits. She’s had an enormous amount of wellwishers, card and gift-bearers and she’s very thankful to everyone who’s been thinking of her. The windowsill beside her bed is burgeoning with cards, balloons and teddy bears! There’s not…

OK, so the changes didn’t fix both problems. Someone has reported the dreaded error condition being shown again. I’ve fixed the message (it wasnt scheduled maintenance at all) and made it log all the database activities when this error is thrown. Its safe to say that it is NOT because the machine is running out…

We’ve had enough. No really, enough now. This whole parody lark with various different users pretending to be different people and third persons getting in on the fights and such like is getting just too difficult for our tiny heads to keep up with, and to be frank, why the hell should we? We are…