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Is back… It uses a distributed system to perform the queries, so there may be times when the search system is down even though the rest of the site is functioning perfectly. That should get less and less as we bring more servers online (presently there’s only one :)). But after much swearing and hacking,…

I was alerted over the weekend a number of times that DD was having a bit of an issue but unfortunately I couldn’t get to the site until just now in order to fix it. The problem was that the table used to record hits to each persons diary, for the show my hits script,…

My interpretation of the COPPA law is that we may actually have to do what the other diary sites have apparently done and that is to ban kids. This will suck, but there is no way we can possibly hope to get parental consent to allow their kids to post information on to the web….

There’s been a little confusion and taking things a bit literally since we made the announcement about mentioning other diarists. The question: Are you ever, at all, able to name another diarist in your diary? The answer is ofcourse you are. With Restrictions. 1. That diarist must have given you permission, chances are if you’re…

I think I may have a solution to both problems in one go. In any case, you will notice the Entry Count column gradually (as people add new entries) being updated to reflect the amount of entries a user has when you click the ‘Show’ button… A brief history into our rather appalling way of…

Hi all, What a day for updates… Anyway, I have by virtue of fixing apostrophes for someone else, fixed the Chinese Big5 problem… The new version of Apache puts a default encoding header of UTF-8 which overrules the META tag that DearDiary puts out. Thus, pages were actually broken for everyone, it just happens that…