Am I totally illiterate?
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.
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.
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…
The database failed overnight leaving the service completely dead about 5 minutes after I went to bed. A query which went bad brought the server down by locking all the tables while it attempted to join together millions of rows (actually probably 100’s of millions of rows) which ran all night and actually never returned….
AtomIC Systems are proud to announce AtMail – AtomIC Mail. Many of you have asked about how to access your deardiary.net e-mail, and many of you have expressed an interest in being able to pick up DearDiary.Net email via the web, from AtomIC Systems. Well, now you can. http://atmail.atomic-systems.com/ In order to receive mail to…
I have noticed a disturbing new phenomenon for DearDiary – diary spam. There have been a number of instances where diaries are created with entries that are selling something, often from China. This is quite a surprise because it is not all that easy for a new diarist to sign up automatically, and most spammers…
New User Signups are disabled until I can find an appropriate method to block the spammers, my adjustments last night were completely fruitless. I’ve also temporarily disabled the Last Ten Updates because that’s clearly the only place of any interest to them since that’s where the Google Pagerank is. I shall be considering options over…