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04.25.08 by Widge @ 9:36 pm  Okay, the site translation is offline until I can figure out for certain one way or the other if that's causing our issue with making the site database barf all over itself. That was the cause of the not-brief-enough outage earlier today. I've also gone in and optimized our database tables in the hope that maybe that will make everything behave. But the translation stays off until I can figure out WTF is giving us these rather spectacular craters in our server uptime. Thanks to everybody for their help. Categorized as: Admin
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04.24.08 by Widge @ 1:02 am Here's the long and short of it. 1. The server did Something Odd. Not the comic strip, an actual Something Odd. This Something Odd involved it cutting all ties between it and the database where the site is served from. This is what is technically known as an Incredibly Goddamn Heinous Incident or IGHI in the technical vernacular. This has been fixed and I'm hoping will not reoccur. B. The contests broke. This is because the contests also need database loving. Without database loving they wither and die. These have been fixed. They took a long time to get fixed because finally Elizabeth D. pointed out they were broken and I didn't think about them in the melee of the IGHI. Everyone tell Elizabeth thank you. Categorized as: Admin
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04.06.08 by Widge @ 11:09 pm Quick snippet: Damien just pinged me asking for a LiveJournal feed for Needcoffee. And sure enough, we didn't have one. We do now and I think this is the link you need if you want to add us to your Friends list: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/needcoffee_rss/ Oh, and I also created a little app-thing for Facebook that will let you display Needcoffee madness in your profile. Find that here. Anybody else wishing they could see our stuff somewhere it isn't? Lemme know, I'll see what I can do. Danke! Categorized as: Admin
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04.06.08 by Widge @ 1:41 am Well, I think it's pretty clear what the most expensive item you guys bought from Amazon through the site during the first three months of 2008: it made us so happy, we've already blogged about it. But what were the most popular items, i.e. the ones that had the most repeat sales? Well, by far that honor goes to Richard Simmons.  No, I'm serious. Various flavors of Sweatin' to the Oldies were purchased. Not to mention related titles like Disco Sweat and 60s Blast Off. On DVD and VHS, even. Plus some Simmons-branded exercise clothing. No shit. Hey, if the site (or Dindrane's review of Sweatin' to the Oldies) inspires you to get in some exercise, we say go for it. Lord knows we're parked on our butts enough here where we could use some. Categorized as: Admin
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03.30.08 by Widge @ 6:04 pm Okay, so we've made a couple of changes. First of all, welcome to the center of your screen. I dunno, I kinda like it out here. Feels a bit roomier, you know? It started to get to where we were jammed up against the website that was right off the lefthand side of your screen. I know you couldn't see it, but man, talk about not having a side yard. Felt like living in one of those subdivisions where you can literally lean out your window and step into the open window of the house next door. So we've done that. Also, in case you've noticed, we use tags. And when we are talking about something or somebody that we've written a few things about, we have a tendency to link to our tags so you can read more on that subject. So if I were to mention Mike Patton, and if you were to click through, you'd see something like this:  Categorized as: Admin
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