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Notice from Piper copied from StorySite - Outage expected July 3, 2009

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This is what Piper posted at CSS:

Tomorrow, all the sites we host will go away. The downtime will be somewhere between 6 and 48 hours.

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Weblinks

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I think I've got the Weblinks working again. Apparently when one of the updates of the software was done, the name of the links type was changed from links to weblinks. The ... well, the rest of the explanation would be too embarrassing, er, technical.

Anyway, it works now but the link farm is in sad shape, dead links and lots of links that ought to be there but aren't. If you investigate a link and discover that it is dead, leave a comment either here or on the link and I'll try to fix or delete it.

TG Comics

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Visit TG Comics
Femur's TG Comics has a large collection of high quality comics, drawn and CGI. Most of the site is free, though there are premium stories available only by paying for a download. If you like a visual element to your TG stories, this is definitely worth checking out. There's also an incredibly complete links page on the site.

May Day Story Contest Voting

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Last day to vote!

You have until June 9, to vote for your favorite May Day story. You can vote for as many stories as you like but you should vote only once per story. The story that has the most votes at midnight, server time, on June 9 will be announced the winner on June 10th.

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Strange Dream

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How many people base stories on dreams they've had? I had an odd one last night, got up this morning and wrote it up. I've done very little to make it make more sense but it's posted over on http://Fictioneer.org.

This kind of thing happen to anyone else?

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Erin

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Nasty Sinuses, We Hates Them Forever

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Well, at least this time they are getting me out a dental appointment. Ax murderers behind the eyes and oozing body fluids at both ends are not a good time to go to the dentist, not to mention the choking and gagging fits. I'm going to take some pain pills and take a nap and maybe call to see my regular doctor this afternoon.

I'll be here, I'm just not firing on all cylinders.

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Erin

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The Youngblood Project by Bruce Kost

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The Youngblood Project

by Bruce Kost

Kidnapped by the CIA to be the latest victum for an insane experiment, Russel Travers is forced, at gunpoint, to drink a secret serum.

  

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Stardust, Fictioneer and Tuckerspawn are back.

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Since there are so many comments I'll leave this message in place. As of about 3:30 PM EDT the power has been restored and all of the critical servers are back in operation. One of the general use systems that runs my lightning detection system is having problems but it isn't as critical as the other servers were.

Bob Arnold

Bob tells me that power is out due to lines brought down by winds in his area of central New York. May be back up today but more winds and storms expected, so it could be a while. Bob will remove this notice when the power comes back up. He's fine.

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Hayfever and Finals

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Pretty sick this evening with hayfever and what feels like an incipient sinus infection. Let's hope it's just hayfever. I've got finals this week and next starting Thursday, but they're playing four of my pieces in the composer's recital at college. I hope I'm not too sick to go.

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10,000 Dresses

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Every night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows…Unfortunately, when Bailey’s awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Quite the contrary: “You’re a BOY!” Mother and Father tell Bailey.


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Curse of the Were-Woman

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   A Graphic Novel by Jason M. Burns and Christopher Provencher

Fortune 500 exec, obsessive womanizer, and all-around jerk Patrick Dalton finds himself cursed by an angry, jilted lover... a curse that causes him to transform into a woman each night!


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Scheduling of Crises

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In the future, I'd like to request that people who want to violate the rules of posting here, or annoy others for such transgressions, or anything that does not contribute to the peace and tranquility of what is essentially a library -- I'd like to request that all such disturbances, disagreements and denunciations take place while I'm here at my desk and not in bed, at dinner or in the bathroom.

Thank you all and hugs,
Erin

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Blog Policy

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While I was being sick and unavailable today, Sephrena made a judgement call on a blog that skated close to BC's ban on possibly inflammatory blogs related to politics or religion. She made that decision because I was unavailable. When she did get in touch with me later, I backed her up and talked privately with the blog's poster to make sure there wasn't a problem there.

Sephy made a blog post to explain what had been done in case someone wondered why the blog had been posted.

Suppression of GLBT literature by major retailer will not be tolerated!

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I don't do stuff like this very often, in fact, I've never done it. I'm asking for everyone who can and does not fear to do so to go to every social news and networking sites they can and make sure that this action by Amazon does not get "disappeared." We are here, we read books, we buy books and we will not be stuffed into a closet, even if some of us live in one.

Please Resend Emails

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If anyone sent emails, including ones with stories attached, any time during the last two or three months, please send them again. My email save file got corrupted and I've lost a bunch of emails and no way of knowing which ones I lost because I don't have them to count them.

I hate this sort of thing. My redundant backup turns out to be incomplete so that was no save.

Please, if you sent anything important to joyce@qnez.com in the last 90 days or so, send it again.

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Erin

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New New Server and Possible Site Outages

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The server is up and is running a version of BC and it looks pretty good for moving the site tonight or tomorrow. The problem will again be propagating the domain so that bigclosetr.us/topshelf will take you to the right site. So, I'm going to set up a temporary URL that will take you to the new site if you can't reach it through the usual address.

Stay tuned for more info.

Hugs,
Erin

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13,658=>100% growth in 108 days.

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The highest day ever in terms of visitor and the second highest in terms of pages at 43,739. (We had one freak day last February with just over 50,000 page downloads because of several site reapers running at once).

But 13,658 visitors is more than twice the number of visitors on October 31, 2008. A few days later FictionMania went down and BC began a runaway traffic inflation. So fast that Bob and I have spent a lot of the last three and a half months trying to keep the server from crashing on a nearly daily basis.

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Searching turned off for Anonymous Users

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I'm not sure exactly what was going on but what seemed to be happening was someone was launching six or more searches a minute. Multiple windows? Deliberate attempt to mung the server? At the same time, a couple of crawlers were onsite, so that didn't help.

Anyway, we've turned anonymous searches back off. Seems like the only thing we can do.

Hugs,
Erin and Bob

Translations and Reposts and StoryLinks require acknowlgement of original author by name

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Someone just posted a translation into French of a story and marked it as being with permission of the original author but no where included the name of the original author. Not good. I can't allow such a post without acknowledgement of the original author BY NAME.

Same goes for reposts of stories from other sites or StoryLinks to stories that are on other sites. Even if you have permission, I need the name of the original author showing or else I don't have the presumption of a legal right to display the story.

Apologies to the person whose post I just removed.

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