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The underlying database has been upgraded to a newer and reportedly much faster MySQL version. Unfortunately, due to some technical limitations of the operating system, it took longer than expected, (about half an hour, compared to the 5 minutes it should have been!) but its now back online and should stand a lot more load…

Something is very very broken right now and entries appear to be biting the dust. I am examining the logs, examining the offsite backup and will attempt to recover all lost entries and determine exactly what is going on. In the meantime, I apologise and have about as much of a clue to whats wrong…

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….

It seems that the adult verification system caused an unexpected side effect. In order to remember which diary you were visiting when you hit a page that needs an adult ID, we store the diary name in a cookie. Unfortunately, by default, PHP (which the new secure comments system is written in) reads cookies and…

Ravyn raises an interesting point that I thought it would be worthwhile echoing for everyone to understand. If you are particular about the security of your diary (and indeed ANY system that you use) then you should be careful with your password. The following guidelines will help you a lot: 1. Never use the same…

To Answer Ruminating – yes, we’re still here, it’s just been rather busy for Steve and I lately for various reasons. Steve is heading back to the UK soon so he’s snowed under with not just moving house but moving country (which makes moving house within the same country look like a walk in the…