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

Okay, the October 2008 Story contest starts tonight!

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.

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.

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.

The site went down this morning for a bit and when I brought it back up it seemed to be under a denial of service attack. So, I took it down and put up an error message while I investigated. Turns out it must have been a Google crawler that got a wild hare and kept hitting the same page, several thousand times.

in the path of Hurricane Ike: Be safe and we'll see you next week.

Hugs,
Erin

I've been under the weather lately, sinusitis and an injury to my foot. Both are doing better now, though the medication for my foot makes me a bit queasy.

But it's a great day today, a band at the college is going to perform some of my music. :)

After checking all the votes for validity, the results are in! :)

Sephrena's Honourable Mentions are now added!

You know, I haven't been able to keep up with reading all the postings on BC for over two years. So Much Good Stuff. I want to say thanks to everyone who posts stories, makes comments, blogs or helps me out with tech knowhow, front page assistance or freelance editing.

It just keeps getting better.

Take care all of you, hugs,
Erin

Downloaded a tool for keeping track of updates and upgrades to the software we use here. Looks like I've got two or three days work to do to get the current version up to date

While trying to create a random pick of old stories, I stumbled across this neat little capability in Drupal. For now this little list will go in the top of the left column on the main page and will show stories from about one year ago, plus or minus 24 hours. I may be able to expand this to include stories from two years ago, three years ago, etc. And maybe not. :)

Hugs,
Erin

We just had an earthquake here, or near here. A few people called so I just want to post that I'm okay. :)

Actually, I was in a restaurant drinking coffee and talking to a friend in Florida when it hit. I told her all about it, she asked how bad was it and I went into a spiel I made up on the spot.

I said something like this:

Here's the tape of Cathy's radio interview. Use your browser (or iTunes) to download. It's not on the main BC server so it may be slow.

24 Meg MP3 file from WJTN Radio.

Over on the FictionMania Hyperboard, someone started a discussion of the use of sex-changing viruses in TG stories and someone made a comment about the impossibility of a virus being able to change bone structure. Here's a version of my contribution to that thread: