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I have left 9rules

June 27th, 2008

This is a bit of a belated message to say that I am gay and am running away… okay so I lied, I have left The 9rules Blogging Network to go it alone in the blogging world. I just want to say thanks to all of you that have found me from the 9rules site and to those that have been my extended family for the past couple years, I know I haven’t been as active of late and I still consider 9rules to be some of the best content available online, passionate words everywhere and I guess a catalyst for me leaving.

Tyme, Mike and Scrivs, I thank you all for having me as part of your network and perhaps one day you will have me back once I have time to channel my thoughts and passions into my blog again on a regular basis.

It’s been a pleasure getting to mingle with my peers, people that I look up to and that I have a lot of respect for, not only that I’ve made a few good friends with whom I stay in touch.

Time waits for no man as I have said before and it’s time for this man to move on. You’ll be pleased to know I am not going anywhere though so it’s a pointless statement, all I have done is retire from the commitment of writing as a part of 9rules.

I’ll still be writing and I hope that you will continue to stop by if and when it takes your fancy.

Take care folks and you’ll see me about. Got about 700 things I need to do on this site but until then I have 700 things to do on other things which I am afraid to say take precedence over entertaining you lot..

Watch this space, I think Tyme said it beautifully when she told me “don’t be a stranger, that very much goes out to you lot too!

Yikes… transformer fires = !good

June 4th, 2008

Just want to issue a quick apology for unavailability of the site over the past few days, apparently someone out there has had a rougher time than me due to a transformer catching fire in a data center where 3 of my sites are hosted.

Check this out…

Network outage affecting several servers

Posted May 31 at 18:22 CDT by Richard Cooper in Downtime - 0 comment(s)

Issues at one of our data center are causing downtime on several servers. We are working to resolve this problem as soon as possible.

Update: Today at approximately 5:45 p.m. CDT, a transformer in one of The Planet’s Huston datacentres caught fire, requiring them to take down all of the generators on site on the instructions of the fire department. This is one of six data-centres used by WebFaction. All servers hosted at that datacentre are currently offline.

The difference between Webfaction having issues and a Fasthosts cock up is that I still trust Webfaction and know they didn’t hand out my passwords or some stupid shit like Fasthosts would do.

I just hope the poor souls that had to deal with it are getting a week off after a week of no sleep.

Anyway… that’s the why the site has been down, please excuse me if the site is a little wobbly over the next few days but I hope that is now service resumed.