ODD Behaviour fixed

As many of you might have noticed, these hits were not disappearing. Thats because their ‘hitdate’ (ie, the date when they looked at your diary) where incorrectly stored as a time some 300 years or more in the future. Rather than wait for them to expire naturally (since most of us will have expired before…

Stage 2 of the Reader Comment upgrade is now online, plus I had an idea about how to make things a bit easier to drive on the comments side of things so that is online now also. What does Stage 2 include? If you recall, Stage 1 was the addition of the option for diarists…

The server upgrade happened yesterday as planned, thanks to Verio for their prompt service on this! The extra memory has enabled us to increase the capacity of the various servers, and significantly increased the memory available for the database which should also speed things up significantly. Last night seemed to go well, and hopefully its…

I’ve looked at just about everything I can to pin down the internal server errors, and it can only be some form of server bug that is being tickled. I think it’s down to the way the database is used on the server, in that PHP and Apache both have their own ways of using…

Hi guys,     I know it's been a long time since anything has happened – and it's taken a lot of soul searching and internal dialogue (and some external dialogue with various people!) to come to this point – but I am now in a position where I have no choice but to ask for…

This is a copy of all the information that used to be under the ‘News’ link, we’re moving it here so that it is still available. We’re deleting that old link and then making sure that any reference to ‘News’ points to this diary, as this is now considered the official source of all updates…