A Poem

Well, great news… The server was running nice and fast for about, err, 10 hours or so. And then crashed when it tried to do the nightly update!! Its done that once before, where the whole scripts just consumed all the database connections and left none for the web… Thats what happened this morning too……

Well today I started work on the customisation facilities for the diaries. It’s now possible to edit some of those textual bits that are present so the test team should be able to begin to make their diaries that little bit more personal. I’ve coded it in a generic way so adding new textual bits…

Its come to my attention that a number of people who have diaries here have been threatened by, perhaps one, perhaps more people, that their ’employers’ will be contacted. I’m not sure on what grounds these employers would be contacted, especially since the various people threatened are among the more sensible users of this system…

A few comments back to Sobriquet’s questions and comments: is using swear words a marker of an adult text? how explicit in detail will you have to go (in terms of sexual content) in order to be deemed ‘adult’? what is the criteria here? ..and then there is the censorship issue. We don’t have one…

The expiry process for Plus accounts hasn’t worked since we moved servers (I thought it was a bit quiet on the expiry notice front!) which means that when it does finally run this week (assuming I have now correctly fixed it!) that some people will get expired and will only get the ‘You have expired’…

If anybody ever wants to come off the top ten for any reason, just drop us a note to support and we’ll put you on the block list. Some people don’t like to be on the top ten because while they want a public diary, they don’t particularly want a spotlight to be shone on…