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Sorry for the short warning. However the site is switching servers at some point in the next few days so there will be some downtime. Can't say how much or how long.

Don't worry, if you're one of the few that know we're here. Know also we will be back. Bad smell etc.

About the forum being down the last several hours. Many apologies, it should have been dealt with more quickly. However I do have many excuses.

Unfortunately this won't be the only downtime we have. There's to be some maintenance on the database server tonight. To be more precise it's all moving to a new server. This work will be carried out at 10pm GMT and should last for about an hour.

During this time the whole site will be inaccessible as most of it relies on a database or two.

Also a quick note of apology to those poor tormented souls that occasionally visit anywhere else on the site other than the forums. The front page hadn't been updated in over a year which is pretty unprecedented and not at all entertaining.

I should say that there has been much in that last year that could have been announced, in all it's glory, here on the front page. Still, nothing of tremendous import. Mostly updates of forum templates and the like.

Endeavours shall be made to make the next news update somewhat more timely and at least partly less annoying.

A site update here, there's a lot to cover but I'll do so as briefly as possible.

There's a lot of new writings and I have to admit to not having read them all properly as yet. Eight are new poems since the last update written by Wallace. They of course follow her previous works the high standards we're used to.

We also have a new author Jason Fontaine with his poem American Jihad a nice Christian, peace promoting work.

Wallace has been very, very busy. As we're also very lucky to have a new piece of prose she has contributed. This one I've not yet read at all despite it having been up for a while. However I am just about to read The Grave Part I once I get this new update posted. I think you should do like-wise.

The last thing to note before signing off is that the poetry section has had a bit of an overhaul. There is now a huge amount of content in there so the old layout and navigation wasn't really working any more. The new way should be more user friendly and also becomes the only part of the site (though that may change I'm undecided.) with a feed available.

Speaking of the feed, any info on whether that's working as it should would be welcome.

New releases of Both the Endar and Terra Incognita themes are available today. Both are bug fix releases which I've been holding onto for a long time. Waiting for an SMF update that would also necessitate theme alterations. That doesn't seem to be going to happen though and one of the squashed bugs in Terra Incognita is relatively important. As it corrects an annoying rendering issue In the Safari (Other WebKit browsers too.) browser.

Apologies to the Safari users as this was also an issue at the forums here and probably has been for a long time.

You can grab the update in the SMF section.

This is a bit of an orgasmic entry for poetry lovers. We have five new poems up on the site by Wallace. Count 'em, five!

Indigo Petals, Dark to Light, Bathed In Blue, Disconnect , Frozen Statues.

Five they may be but you'll need to try harder to shame me into putting something on the site again Wallace. For I know no shame!