We have recieved news that the world is coming to an end tonight!
Well, no it isn't but the archive will be shut off tonight from about 11:59 pm till tomorrow morning around 3 am. That is from April 10th at about 11:59pm till April 11th at about 3 am.
They are moving the database around.
No cause for alarm, please go back to your daily routine.
When I started writing my current story for the Fiction Archive, I started to get excited about sharing it. I knew the only place I could share it was here at the EA. Right around when I wanted to get feedback, the whole damn site went down. I can't tell you what that did to me emotionally. (that was when we lost our provider.)
Just last night I finished the damn novel. 120,000 words long, and the story is now completely inseparable from the EA. The EA is the ONLY place it could ever be read, or garner any feedback.
If I didn't know what you just told us, Tal, and I came here to find the site down, I might have a nervous breakdown thinking fate was out to kill my story. Thank you for the warning. Consider me prepared.
My cable company who I buy internet service from does this same sort of thing. They go offline at midnight or 1am without warning and then do "service" which usually turns into a Mongolian cluster F$$K
OH NO the board will be down for three whole hours, I am already getting the shakes, 3 hours, wait, from midnight to 3am, hell I am asleep then so I guess I don't care.
I sometimes wonder whether reports about the future sometimes tell stories different than what the future becomes as it presents itself because the future is, and only is, that which has not yet actually happened?
I have not been able to think of a sequence of words that would result in this thread becoming closed unless these words will suffice.
Thanks for the heads up, and thanks to Krister for clarifying what time zone the outage times are for. I'm usually checking the boards about that time and now I'll not wonder where you went.
janekane (imported) wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:19 pm
I sometimes wonder whether reports about the future sometimes tell stories different than what the future becomes as it presents itself because the future is, and only is, that which has not yet actually happened?
I have not been able to think of a sequence of words that would result in this thread becoming closed unless these words will suffice.
The problem is the future
becomes a near instantaneous present
and is lost in the past
I wonder
Do we get the future any less inaccurately then we get the past or present?
rruunnnnn ruunnn forrrr thhhhee hillssssssss Will Robinson..the Archive is heading off planet. hahahah ok thanks for the heads up 
I'm usually checking the boards about that time and now I'll not wonder where you went.