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No comments for over three hours in the middle of the day? That's just weird when this site averages over 3 comments an hour and generally manages 2 even in the middle of the night. Anyone having problems with the commenting mechanism?

Hugs,
Erin

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Nova Party Line

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Bob has set up a micro blogging site for TG readers, Nova. Check it out! You can leave it open in a window and check it now and then, carry on quick conversations. Looks best in Firefox, BTW. Bob and I will be looking in often. It's quick and easy to sign up for and use. (Kind of like Twitter and other microbloggers.)

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10,000 Posts!

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In about a month, BC will hit 10,000 posts. That's not stories, stories+chapters will be a little over half of that because posts includes blogs, forums, title pages, announcements, links and images. But posts is the easy number to count. :) There are about 1500 stand-alone stories and 350 serials with close to 4000 chapters on BC. Exact numbers aren't really possible because of sloppy coding.

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MiLBD

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I hope people are following the "Skin Horse"* comic I now syndicate at the bottom of the blog pages. :) Today's fan-drawn episode features Tip, the crossdressing hero(ine) of Skin Horse and Wil Smith as MiLBDs so I've added it to the bottom of the front page, too. :)

Hugs,
Erin

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Bugs Murphy

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The main hit counter for stories is working, the daily one is not. The story scheduler is not working correctly, either. The 100 comments is not working, as I said before.

No idea why, but we're also throwing some errors in the error file that seem to have to do with loading of some software.

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Runaway Google Attack

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The site went down this morning for a bit and when I brought it back up it seemed to be under a denial of service attack. So, I took it down and put up an error message while I investigated. Turns out it must have been a Google crawler that got a wild hare and kept hitting the same page, several thousand times.

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curious

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I made a change in how the site looks over the weekend and no one commented. I'm curious, did anyone notice? If you're using the Reversi theme, I didn't make the change to it yet. :)

- Erin

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Badgers Ate My Software

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Voting on the Summer Romance Contest is delayed because the fucking voting software does not work. The old software worked, poorly but it worked, the new stuff does not and the old software is not available now.

I've spent two-and-one-half hours on this and I've got bupkiss. I'm going to bed.

Hugs,
Erin

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Temporary Contest Entry List

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I would like to thank all of the authors who worked so hard and entered in their life's blood in the form of novels, novelettes, short stories, and chapters of serials. This is a temporary list of all the entries. I realize there are a few entries in this list (in the form of chapters) that are inclusive and not properly marked on the story page yet). That will fixed tonight. Please take the time to read these entries in the meantime while we are all waiting for Erin to set up the voting page.



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So Much Good Stuff

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You know, I haven't been able to keep up with reading all the postings on BC for over two years. So Much Good Stuff. I want to say thanks to everyone who posts stories, makes comments, blogs or helps me out with tech knowhow, front page assistance or freelance editing.

It just keeps getting better.

Take care all of you, hugs,
Erin

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One Year Ago - New Featurette

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While trying to create a random pick of old stories, I stumbled across this neat little capability in Drupal. For now this little list will go in the top of the left column on the main page and will show stories from about one year ago, plus or minus 24 hours. I may be able to expand this to include stories from two years ago, three years ago, etc. And maybe not. :)

Hugs,
Erin

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Lost Story with unknown author

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My name is Marsha Lynne Dygert. My Sign in name is sexy kitten I am looking for a book but I do not know the name of the author. The title of the book is (No Longer Caught). If anybody knows where I could get a copy of story I would appreciate it for your time and effort As soon as I get my computer on line I plan on trying to coment more on the stories and try meet more of my sisters of the werld. Thank You; Marsha Lynne Dygert
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Counting Seismologists or Earthquake Terminology 101

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We just had an earthquake here, or near here. A few people called so I just want to post that I'm okay. :)

Actually, I was in a restaurant drinking coffee and talking to a friend in Florida when it hit. I told her all about it, she asked how bad was it and I went into a spiel I made up on the spot.

I said something like this:

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Software Upgrade

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I just upgraded the core software for BCTS. Everything seems to be operating fine, I re-hacked the code in a couple of places where I had customized it. If something that did work no longer works, let me know and I'll investigate.

Hugs,
Erin

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Never Say Never

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Over on the FictionMania Hyperboard, someone started a discussion of the use of sex-changing viruses in TG stories and someone made a comment about the impossibility of a virus being able to change bone structure. Here's a version of my contribution to that thread:

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You just never know...

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I had the experience of talking to an acquaintance recently who confessed to me that her secret desire was to be a canine dental hygienist. That's someone who cleans the teeth of dogs. But, she had ended up getting married, having kids, raising them, etc, a process that took many years and still wasn't over.

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BigCloset TV

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What could be more appropriate for a TG website than a TV channel? :) So there it is, lower left of the front page, courtesy of those bad people at YouTube -- a transgender TV channel, if that isn't a tiny bit redundant. :)

It's an experiment so it may not stay up forever. We'll see. It's really an advertisement envelope, so it could be really really bad.

Hugs,
Erin

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For everyone ...

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... who posts that they don't like serial stories, or don't like drabbles, or don't like stories with crossdressing or magic or bodysuits or superheroes or you don't like stories that have lots of keywords or not enough keywords -- there's such a simple solution I'm surprised no one has thought of it.

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Melanie Ezell's Drabble Theatre

Has been added as a Title Page -- there are a total of 8 Drabbles from 2 Authors there. If any Author wants theirs added to the Theatre, let me know with a PM. Be sure to include the title of the Drabble and a link if it's already posted on BCTS.

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Stories We Would Like Completed

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Here is a spot to lay out your wish list and hopefully have the authors see this. Many great stories have, for one reason or another, been relegated to a backburner somewhere. If it were possible to convince the author(s) to dust them off and try to finish them, which of the ones that have never been finished would you MOST like to see started on again?

Sephrena Lynn Miller

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Kim Memorial Fund

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I asked Piper to provide a way so the community can donate to help with expenses and whatever financial assistance she might need right now. The box is in the top right column right now and for the next week or two. After that, you'll still be able to find it here if you aren't able to donate until later.
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