Do More Poi

Ok, so the board is now working to a certain extent, I’m gonna need to pull some stuff off of a hard drive and upload it to the server before it’s all ship shape and Bristol fashion but the thing does work now. All the attachments are gone however (that’s whats on the HD) they will be back but not for a short while. The smilies too.. Sorry Boggy, you will have to wait a short while before you can start attempting to induce seizures on the readers again.

Basically the board needs about 7-8 hours of my time to be back into the functional state it was before I closed it down last year, so to all of you guys waiting to joyfully spam it again, it’s not long now, I aim to have it completed this week. I’m pretty good at time management these days too so that estimate won’t be far off lol

From here on in however it will be unmoderated, I have decided to go zen on the whole politics side of running a message board. Spam will be removed and abusers will be messed around but aside from that, people will be encouraged to say whatever they want about whatever they want. I have always felt that the fire spinning scene needed a speakeasy and for a very short while it did indeed fill that role. Then, alas, the one simple rule (play nice) turned into a fkn millstone around the places neck and no one was allowed to say anything that anyone else didn’t like. Pah!!! No more.

Mkay then.. just a quick update as to how the board is coming along, for now tho, I’m going having some brekkie and taking the Bobo out for a walk to enjoy the beautiful sunshine that the UK is basking in right now.

I saw my first Bumblebee of the year yesterday. It’s spring!!

Dum dee dum..

k so the site has been down for a while eh?

To cut a long story short I have been in Canada for a while and shortly before I left the shores of Britain I broke the database ever so slightly during maintenance. The message board was getting very quiet too apart from the odd bitch fest so rather than stress out trying to fix the database thing a day or two before I left I just thought “Screw it. I need a break from it anyway..”

Then I spent the last two days chilling in the garden, it was summer and it was lovely. I flew off two days later and didn’t have any meaningful kind of connection to the net (a computer with the right tools for website shenanigans) for another few months. This was also, quite lovely.

The lesson pages have always been up however, and they have still been used extensively. I was happy to see that was the case when I did check in on the stats from time to time, that’s why I left them there during my bout of travel/laziness, people were obviously still looking hard for poi lessons and were still visiting domorepoi even though I had committed search engine suicide and put a blank index page up just before I left. This has stayed the same for 7 months now so I am going to do the site justice and put stuff up again if only to a basic extent.

So yah.. I am now back in the UK, with all the tools I need to make this place tick. Using blog technology for the content seems like a good way to go now so I have customised a wordpress installation as you may or may not be able to tell and will be putting some of the old html pages into this format. I will of course be using the thing to blog too and look forward to doing so. I may put the board back up (depends on the hits) it will however be completely unmoderated apart from spam removal if I do.

Oki doki, thats my couple of hours a week spent, BRB.