January 2001

New Database

Just a quick note for anyone who cares, the database server has been running on what the authors called a Gamma release. That is, it was mostly stable but they wanted to make absolutely sure before calling it stable… The latest release, which is now installed on the DearDiary server, is now the latest and …

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Searching your Diary

Hi Everyone, A couple of quick announcements… Firstly, after a user request for a facility to allow searching of your own diary (possible already with the Search engine) we have updated it slightly to allow you to put a link to it on your own diary. When you want to search a particular users’ diary …

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The mysterious Unresolved

Or the Great Unwashed 🙂 No, Unresolved, in the context of our ‘Show My Hits’ page, simply means that the system has not yet looked for the address, or addresses of the sites that have looked at your pages. That is, any address that the system has not yet tried to convert from an IP …

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To answer some questions

Many people have commented about the need for many people to keep their diary even though they may not have a credit card or bank account and that their parents would then have to pay for the account, something they wouldn’t want to do if they didn’t want their parents to even know they kept …

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