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I have returned from what can only be described as the trip of a lifetime around the tropical Whitsunday Islands – and I shall write some more about that in my personal diary later – but I am now wading through the list of support messages and trying to get on top of those. I…

The Personal page is now fixed – sorry about that! In order to increase security, you must login to that page seperately, even if you were already logged in to DearDiary (this is because the DearDiary.Net login system does not permit you to logout even if you leave it idle for 3 days! Which means…

I’m posting this as an entry because Matt asked for it, and he’s less of a fiery temper driven twit than I am, so perhaps this helps the politically sensitive who will no doubt have objected to my last entry 🙂 Hi Danielle, Many questions! I’ll try and answer them all as best as I…

Hi all,     I've been busy today and managed (I think) to switch the system from using files for storing the various messages into using the database to do the job. Ultimately this will remove over 280,000 files from the filesystem – but that won't happen until I'm happy that the new system is working…

Jade actually did use the HELP button, I notice. But since I’ve been without net access for nearly three weeks I’ve not been able to answer it and clear up the backlog… My apologies, I shall get to that one shortly! Though its sort of superseded now 😉 Steve.

I have today added an extra security module to the server which should reduce the ability for spiders (the biggest culprit being BaiduSpider!) to severly cripple the machine by issuing lots of requests in quick succession. The configuration will need some tweaking I’m sure, but if you find yourself getting blocked when you’re trying to…