While adding the link for my new blog, I noticed that the links to my website and messageboard were still pointing to the old domain. I've now corrected it. I can't believe I missed that for so long.

My tags had gotten out of control so I've spent the last few hours going back and tagging everything from the very first entry onwards. This allowed me to deal with duplicate tags, which should reduce things somewhat. In the process I came up with the following comments and thoughts relating to things I've previously posted in my journal.

The most frequently used tags here are 'website update' and 'life', often used in combination.

I've had Rome: Total War for over two years and have yet to beat it.

Two years later, Gladiator is still one of my favourite movies. As is it's soundtrack, one of only a few I listen to.

The number of typos in my entries. And I never noticed them until now. I'm not fixing them though.

The stamps from that bucket two years ago have yet to be fully dealt with, much less the reorganization that I thought to start. I've since learned that the photo album pages were actually damaging the stamps. Now I'm in the process of moving them to new albums. Proper stamp ones this time, and I'm trying to organize them by set and in chronological order. This has been going since fall 2005. And, I've been buying more stamps. Every time I think I've got them sorted for one country or another, I end up getting more and have to start all over again.

The yard work situation has not changed any, except that I've more or less given up.

Since the EzBoard disaster and the switch to my own messageboard, the number of posts have gone down (from miniscule to none) and the spam has gone up. On the other hand, there's no advertising and my messageboard follows the layout of the website now.

I've noticed how may times I mention an idea I have/had for fanfic and it never gets written. Some of them have been completely forgotten and some of them are still floating around in my head. Whether they'll eventually get written or not, I don't know. As for the Tolkien essay on Divine Interference, it's still waiting to be written.

I just ran across a mention of a sequel to my fic Valentines Surprise. Sequel? What sequel? I have no idea what I was planning for it now.

First Man in Rome did not end up on the May 2006 list as I had predicted it would. Instead it languished until this month. It will be on the April 2007 list, almost a year after I'd planned on reading it.

Its been over 6 months since I got the fic site going, and I still haven't uploaded all my fic to it. This is atrocious. The main stories left are the Feet series and the arda100 prompts, which I really should try harder to write.

Not one of my New Years resolutions has been done yet.

On another topic, the website switch is going well, though slowly. I've got the characters through to F, the Books, and the Quotes partially done (all of The Hobbit and part of the LOTR) into the database. However, I have yet to figure out how it is going to be re-formed into HTML. I think a particularly computer savvy friend of mine is going to have to help. Anyway, I get part of this done each day. Might take more than the forecasted month though.

The Messageboard is up and running again. I know it's a couple of day's later than I said it'd be, but I couldn't do much about that. Sorry for any inconvenience this caused.

The server that hosts the messageboard will be moving tomorrow (Sunday, October 30) morning. Hopefully it will go back up by the afternoon. At the latest service will resume in on Sunday evening.

This does not affect the website, only the messageboard.

The messageboard is up and running again.

Working on an update to the website as well.

I was right about the sore muscles yesterday.

Well, the messageboard is now working again. The reason for the problem was a software update.

In other news, tomorrow I register for my classes.

First of all, I've got to say that for some reason right now the messageboard is inaccessable. Hopefully it will be fixed soon and I am sorry for the inconvenience.


Yesterday was interesting, but I'm paying for it today. My church is going to be undergoing renovations so they had a volunteer party to take up the pews for the movers. What they didn't tell us before we got there was that we would also be taking up the carpet and lino tile floors. When it came to the floors, everyone was chipping in to help, and believe me, chipping was the right word for it. The tiles were still so well fastened down that they were coming up in mostly coin sized pieces. There were scrapers, chisels, hammers, and pry-bars being used. Some said the noise was like being in a welsh coal mine. I spent three hours doing that and I'm paying for it today with blisters and sore muscles.

I've set up a new messageboard to replace the Ezboard.

The URL is http://zapc.go.wifl.at.org:8080/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi.

I have yet to move any threads from the old board though, so all the forums are still empty.

Take a look.

I've changed the order of the sidebar in the journal.

As to the ezboard messageboard, I'm seriously planning to switch to something like phpBB, if only so that I can back it up myself (although the odds of me actually doing so are debatable)

Now ALL the threads are gone, not just the last year and a half's worth. I'm looking more and more at finding another board.

Well, they're still recovering after the hacking a few days ago and the messages are still missing on my board. They think it will be at least another seven to ten days, before posts are restored even partially, which might be the best I get.

I'd love to have the messageboard on the server the site is, which would mean no advertising etc. I've seen software for doing it, I just don't know if the server is set up to be able to run it.

Anyway, I'm working on a list of the post topics that were lost, so something similar can be posted again once things are fixed, if Ezboard is unable to restore all the missing topics. Some of the initial posts I made for threads, I can recover from the Lord of the Rings Fanatics Forum, where I posted many topics for alternate opinions.

If you can think of any of the lost topics, please let me know, Thanks.

These are the posts made to the LOTR Fanatics Forum:

Elf Friend - More than a Title
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Werewolves
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The Istari
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A Possible Bombadil Theory This was one of several Bombadil threads, though the only one I started that I remember.
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The Mouth of Sauron (Obviously, from the content of this thread, there was more than one thread on the topic)
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Radagast
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Barrow-Wights
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The Ring: Self Willed?
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Sting sensing evil/orcs and range
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Aragorn, healing, Gondor, Numenor etc. One of several threads on the healing abilities of the Line of the Kings.
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Orc Breeds
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Chapter Summaries 1-5 of The Hobbit Safe on my computer and on the website itself.

Other Threads currently missing (Not backed up, just a list of the topics)
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Topics I'd like to start
- A comparison of Melkor's time in Aman and Sauron's time in Numenor
- Did Isildur steal only the one fruit of Nimloth? (Triggered by the latest in the Conversations in Minas Tirith series)
- What are the best books on Tolkien's Middle-Earth (Secondary Sources)?

Well, the ezboards messageboards are mucked up big time.

Apparently they were severely hacked yesterday.
At any rate the visible effects (at least on my board) are that all posts since April/May of 2004 are missing.

Thing is, I'm getting conflicting information on whether they will be able to restore the missing material. They keep saying only that they have back-ups for the 9,000 or so paying boards. Nothing about the rest of us. However, I'm not posting or replying to anything on the messageboard until I know for sure that what ever it is won't simply get lost if they are able to restore anything.

The good news is that I'm working on an update for my site, to go up later today.

I've been working on an update for the past few days. I want to make it a really big one.
Some of what it includes is stylesheet corrections, improvements to the menus and new entries for several of the documents.

Side note. The messageboard is back up after their move. It only took them an extra two days LOL.