Fixed?

We’ve made a couple of changes, notably to the web server software itself, that appears to have done the trick with the lockups. We have a secondary option up our sleeves just in case but it looks like we may well have fixed it. For those that noticed no slow down for the last 90…

More info on the Klez Virus

If you want to know more about the virus that sends mail reportedly from us, please visit this link; http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52174,00.html And PLEASE, if you have any of our addresses in your address book, please do us the honour of subscribing to Microsofts’ Critical Update Notification. The security hole this virus utilizes was PLUGGED, well over…

Server Upgrade Achieved

The server upgrade happened yesterday as planned, thanks to Verio for their prompt service on this! The extra memory has enabled us to increase the capacity of the various servers, and significantly increased the memory available for the database which should also speed things up significantly. Last night seemed to go well, and hopefully its…

20,000 Public Diaries!

Good heavens! 20,000 public diaries now available to be read! I’ve noticed also that the number of diaries updated in the last week and 24 hours has dramatically increased too!! Thanks for choosing DearDiary.Net to write at – keep up the good work folks, lets chronicle history through the eyes of the normal (heh!) person!…

Muppet clarification

I don’t want to hear complaints about entries, or comments that predate these entries. I won’t retrospectively en-act new ‘laws’ (despite that they’ve been laws since the beginning of the site!) because I don’t have the energy or the time to dissect who might be the person in the ‘right’ in an argument. My judgement…