I had a brainwave and ran the optimiser across the tables in the database to clean them all up, sure enough, the machine hasn’t hit a load average of even 0.5 let alone 1.0 (it was going at over 25 previously). To give you an idea what that means, a load average of 1.0 means…
The system has completed its upgrade to Build 2.1, this is a compatibility release to allow us to advance our other websites and continue our plans to integrate all future sites together at some level. The upgrade didn’t go as smoothly as hoped, but merely in a technical manner – there was no danger to…
Dear Diary 2.1 and P2 are coming online this evening – in 2 or 3 hours, we finished the testing and we’re happy for Dear Diary 2.1 to go out. Please note, as I have said previously, there are very few new features in Dear Diary 2.1 except those i’ve mentioned before (jump to first…
This is a copy of all the information that used to be under the ‘News’ link, we’re moving it here so that it is still available. We’re deleting that old link and then making sure that any reference to ‘News’ points to this diary, as this is now considered the official source of all updates…
Well, according to My Wife it has, at least since the first incarnation of DearDiary came online at a private address for us to test it. The official launch date was 5th October, which is not so very far away now.. So, if you have suggestions on how to celebrate the very first year of…
A new feature made its way onto the DearDiary system a few days ago. We’ve kept it quiet until now to make sure it was working properly, but given that its taken about 2000 pages a day and we’ve not heard any nasty comments into support we might as well officially announce it… Though those…
Apologies. A coding glitch has meant that adverts have been inadvertantly appearing on users diaries if the right conditions were met, despite our assurance here. I’m actually surprised that no-one complained, but anyway, no-one did so perhaps you all don’t mind them as much as you said you did a while back! But either way,…
Please note, we’re not laying the law down here, these are our thoughts and feelings and perhaps some suggestions. The number of requests going to the abuse address seems to be on the rise and while we are not saying don’t email us – after all, the abuse address is there for a very good…
Some people, those who are awake at least, may have noticed that there is an advert banner on the front page. We decided to do this for a couple of reasons, firstly, it takes up less space than the logo (LOL, thats pathetic isn’t it?)… Ok, the real reason, we’re still losing a buttload of…