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Site Down

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The site was down temporarily here because I needed to cool off from a temper tantrum. In the last two weeks, I have put in more than forty hours a week in running BC to the neglect of many other aspects of my life. Count in Bob's time during that span and we're talking more than 130 hours that in a just world could be billed at $115 an hour to someone (yes, that's what I used to bill). About $15,000.

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Discussions off Topic

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A recent thread got off topic, the topic being a story. Things were beginning to heat up with first a few mild general insults and then some that were more pointed. It really hadn't got out of hand and many people seemed to be enjoying things but I finally felt that it had gone on long enough since the topic was continuing four and five levels deep without reference to the story.

So ...

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I'm sick or something

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It's the only excuse I can think of for why I haven't got the voting widget up for the All Souls Day Contest. The software is so crotchety it takes an enormous concentration to get it up and working right or you have to start all over. I'm not worthy.

Anyway, I will get it up and it will be up for a week and it's just unlikely to be this weekend like I wanted it to be. I used up a couple weeks allotment of concentration on fixing some website problems Friday and Saturday and all I want to do today is sleep and eat nachos.

Forgive me.

Hugs,
Erin

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Power Outages?

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Fires in Los Angeles and Orange County may interrupt power to our downtown LA server for BCTS. If so, we'll be down and no knowing for how long. A less serious consequence might be rolling blackouts with intermittent outages lasting hours unless the server farm has to just shut down to protect equipment from surges. More news as it becomes available.

I'm 50 miles east of the fires, so don't worry about me, personally.

Hugs,
Erin

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Persistent Login Problems

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There have been continuing problems for many people with the persistent login function. I hope that Bob and I have now fixed this by uninstalling and then reinstalling the module. Unfortunately, that wiped out everyone's pre-existing persistent login so we all have to do that over but it appears to be working now. :)

Hugs,
Erin

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Cache Clearing for Login Problems

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A security change in the BC software on Sunday has caused login problems for a few members. The solution is to make sure your cache is clear. Browser caches can be cleared by holding down shift (or control or alt, depending on browser) and hitting the reload button on the browser. ISP cache's are more problematical but this will also clear those in many cases. Some browsers have a cache-clear button in the preferences pane or edit menu. It may be called clear history. You might also need to discard cookies, though waiting a day or so will usually expire any stale cookies.

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Curious Commentary

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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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Hoodwink at Fictioneer

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Hoodwink, a character I created for my Promethean Universe, will be appearing on Fictioneer in occasional vignettes dealing with his struggle against Brass Nails. I just posted the first one earlier today.

I won't promise how often I'll be doing these, and they're very short, but I'll do them as often as I can.

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