I have some possible alternatives for Entry Of The Week that I will be thinking about over the next few weeks. One of the problems I had with EOTW was simply not having enough time to review the entries and in any case I am a REALLY bad critique because I’m of the opinion that…
I have decided to remove the Entry Of The Week. Many of the diarists who appeared as Entry Of The Week complained they did not want the limelight and often it caused controversy because people believed that their choice was a better choice than the one I made (and often they may well have been…
Hello all, w.bloggar interface is now back up and running using a totally rewritten class and as a result I’ve fixed a long standing bug with it whereby updating an entry would always send out the new entry notification rather than the update notification – or the other way round, I forget which way it…
I think the reader comment problem should now be fixed – I had a PHP setting that I had missed when I switched servers so that it forced people to use cookies. Unfortunately there’s some personal firewalls and such like out there that feel ANY cookie is an invasion of privacy and therefore block them,…
Hi all, I’ve discovered that my hosting provider who run secondary and tertiary name services have a bijoux buggette in their system which means that although I have requested the DNS updates, their systems haven’t actually honoured my request. Thus, for many people, username.deardiary.net url’s are still not working and openfiction.com is still showing as…
I’ve now managed to get everything downloaded and updated so that HamiPiks is now back up and working – I’ve tested uploads and thumbnailing but if you come across anything that’s not working please drop me a line! Next is OpenFiction and then a new front screen for HamiMail letting people know what’s going on…
In a few days DearDiary.Net will be 5 years old… On that day in 1999, we served about 100 pages, most of which I suspect were me and Matt playing around… Today, in the last 20 minutes, we’ve served 12,467 diary pages alone, that’s not including pages such as the front page, or reader comments…
Apologies – when I setup the Plus expiry script and ran it because I thought the time had passed for it to run itself I forgot that changing the timezone on the machine doesn’t actually affect processes (such as crontab) that are already running… Thus it still thinks its in New York and is therefore…
Hi all, What a day for updates… Anyway, I have by virtue of fixing apostrophes for someone else, fixed the Chinese Big5 problem… The new version of Apache puts a default encoding header of UTF-8 which overrules the META tag that DearDiary puts out. Thus, pages were actually broken for everyone, it just happens that…