Things are still broken, I’m sorry. They’ll be fixed soon. Here’s what happened:
The Church of the FSM site lives on a dedicated server, hosted by one of the largest hosting companies in the US. We get a lot of traffic, and the site runs off database-driven dynamic publishing engine (nerds, read: wordpress/mysql). Whenever we are linked by a site like digg or reddit or boingboing, the server goes down. We were stable unless traffic was unusually high. We upgraded memory and tweaked the settings. That helped but didn’t fix the problems, the server still went down a couple times a month.
We reprovisioned the server, installed a newer OS, moved to a faster machine, but it’s not enough. We’re still bogged down.
So, we’re moving to a new hosting company that has built for us a very powerful server. We’re making the switch today or tomorrow and then things should be finally stable.
Thank you for bearing with me.
-bobby
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Aristotle
“C’mon, click my name. I need more souls.”
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Aris
Mine was the first you got…so treat it special. Does that mean I have any seniorority over the other souls? :)))
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I’ve had my soul stolen twice also. I guess I don’t have to worry about its eternal damnation now, do I?
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Hey! All the republican candidates for US President are about 20 miles from where I sit right now! The debate is going on, I guess. I couldn’t even stomach the Democratic candidates debating. There’s no way I can watch it. I should have at least gone to Manchester in a wench outfit and try to get on national television. Oh, well.
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Cadbury is the biggest selling brand name choc in OZ.
Yummmm…..Rum’n'Raison dark choc. :p)
Hmmmm….off to the shop here…….
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On the bright side, at least I don’t have to listen to Dubya debate. He’s on his way out!!! Yay!!!! He can’t steal another election because of the two-term limit on holding Presidential office. Yay!!!!
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And, I agree chocolate is sensual. It’s like a drug.
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The best chocolate I’ve ever had was at a Godiva shop in Manhattan last summer. I and my two daughters were waiting in line to see J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, and John Irving at Radio City Music Hall. I saw the Godiva Shop across the street and sent my oldest daughter to get something for us. She came back with the most luscious lime truffle covered in dark chocolate. It was a life-changing event.
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Saucy Wench, I posted something to you and it didn’t appear! Waaaa!
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Now I forgot what I said! Spacy Beth :(
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It will come back.
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Wench Nikkiee Jun 5th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
“Aris
Mine was the first you got…so treat it special. Does that mean I have any seniorority over the other souls? :)))”
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Yes, you are the lead soul. The soul-collecting God of Satire needs you to act as an assistant, or even a vice-Captain or vice-God. Or perhaps you’re a Demigod. Was one of your parents mortal and the other divine? In any case, you were the first soul to be collected; therefore, you’re the at the top of the List of Souls.
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Wench Nikkiee, you could be Keeper of the List of Souls.
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Morning all.
Hmm, still talking about chocolate eh? You can always tell when it is mainly wenches around ;)
And where the hell is Dan with my soul? ;P
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Yay chocolate! Oh and I didn’t know those things Beth…muchly thanking you, arr. I can’t believe I lost my soul, and I can’t even sue someone for it. At least, as far as I know, I don’t have to do any manual labour. Which is just the way I like it! Aye, and I do have a sofa…
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Hi Booty :)
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“And where the hell is Dan with my soul?”
Over on that bench I think.
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Have you checked down the back of the sofa, Caroline?
It might be there ;)
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You know Booty I was just staring to warm to that “New Server” thread! Now we have to get this one all messed just the way we like it. (:))
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Oh and I have a new job to do….hands up all those who lost their soul to Aris…
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Me!
And Dan, but he’s going to give mine back if he knows what’s good for him!
I am NOT in a good mood! ;)
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Hmm…I’m wondering just how big souls are. I mean could you store them all in a matchbox, or would you need a stadium sized receptacle? If you’ve given two soul collectors your soul….do they then cut it in half and get half each or what?
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I dunno – I think maybe I am such a nice person I had 2! ;)
I expect they are about *so* big. maybe a little wider. ;P
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Hahaha! I missed your comment about Dan being on the bench!
Well, he can forget that kind of behaviour until I get my soul back! ;)
I just clicked on your link – Oh dear – should I have found that funny or sad or both?
Bit of a weird mood today, not sure how to feel!
Is 1155 too early for a beer?
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“Is 1155 too early for a beer?”
What have you been waiting for….it’s way past beer-o-clock here. I don’t have any. Don’t really like beer :( Get kinda thirsty though when you lot talk about having a sip :p))
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“I just clicked on your link – Oh dear – should I have found that funny or sad or both?”
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Hahahahaha….that’s “Mamma’s Restaurant” from the Andrew Vachss Burke novels…..the ones Pansy belongs to/in :)))
Mamma (a very sharp old Chinese woman) always insists that any guests eat at least 3 bowls of her Hot and Sour soup. Umm… “normal” customers aren’t really welcome there. :))
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Love the promo
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“Put your pooch in his own cool doggie t-shirt from American Apparel. He’ll be the envy of all the pups in the park. Let him wear a doggie-cool design so he can express what he’d like to bark out loud. Do it up in doggie style!”
(:)))
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“$2 of your purchase goes to Protect.org!”
The one on my link now. Vachss is heavily involved with the Protect organisation and has arranged a network of dog trainers who train the dogs to accompany abused kids into a courtroom where they have to testify against their abusers!
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http://www.vachss.com/dogs/av_dogs/sheba.html
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Nice doggy…
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“Nameless”
Hahahahahahaha….
You think that’s going to help :p))
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That site at your link looks interesting. :)
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I’ve heard Sheba likes chasing badgers :))
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Congratulations, Wench Nikkiee, on attaining the status of Lead Soul in Aristotle’s collection of souls. Since he’s stolen my soul twice, can I be your assistant or something?
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Tee Hee.
My soul trap has captured 29 souls!
Eat that Aristotle!
Don’t worry all souls will be kept in safe keeping a treated humanely.
And I certainly won’t let those fundies get hold of them!
Basically it’s a bit like Horcruxes.
Your soul is safer with me than in your own body.
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@Alchemist Jun 5th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
I have a black trilby. It’s cool.
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To ۞… cool, that means I can’t die if you have one of my Horcruxes. Aristotle has two of them… now, what do I do with the other three? (One, of course, stays with me.) Ok, FSM’ers, three more of you have to adopt the soul-stealing site as your own so I can hide my remaining Horcruxes!
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@۞ Jun 6th, 2007 at 12:55 pm “Tee Hee. My soul trap has captured 29 souls! Eat that Aristotle!”
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The 29th was mine! Couldn’t do much with it anyway, except attract doorknockers or so… Captain, I’m nominated n00b of the month again too!
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And about chocolate: Belgian chocolate can’t be beat, and Godiva isn’t even the best of it (by far, even…) Neuhaus, Callebaut, Côte d’Or, Corné Toison d’Or… start drooling, hahahahahahaha. I don’t have a soul anymore, but plenty of real chocolate!
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Oh, and the same goes for beer. I recently changed my breweries top three (all of them brewing Geuze): Drie Fonteinen, Cantillon, Hanssens. Voilà! And on the side, because an other type of beer: Orval (one of the 6 Trappist beers). Re-voilà!!
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RAmen nevertheless, poor kiddies you all :)
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@♥ Wench Beth ♥
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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Lajoly_de_Laba
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The article isn’t complete, of course: the more Disciples I add, the more “interactive”stuff has to be added for each of them. The interaction is becoming difficult, but only one Disciple to go.
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Jean bart,
Cool.
I’ve posted my take on the 2012 olympics logo…
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@۞ Jun 6th, 2007 at 1:45 pm “I’ve posted my take on the 2012 olympics logo…”
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I tried to find out which were your contributions on the 2012 page, but it’s all a but fuzzy. And since I even don’t know a thing about those Olympics, nor about the logo…
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If you want your soul back, click my link (:))
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@۞
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Captain, why not post your version of the logo here:
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http://www.london2012.com/joinin/create/index.php
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They’re asking for it!
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To JB… cool, thanks for sneaking Wench Beth into your work!
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Enough with the chocolate everyone! :)))) I have a bikini to stay fitting into you know! Have a heart! :)))
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Yes, everyone please respect the Empress of Thong, exalted Head Soul, and “Oh yeah, try it bastard! Woman”. Thank you.
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Hey,
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I’ve just found a new story about CoFSM on BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6731045.stm
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Hey,
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I’ve just found a new story about CoFSM on BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6731045.stm
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^ If I click your link it takes me to some mind-something site. If I type in your link it takes me to BBC, but I can’t find a CoFSM article.
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@ Mike – If you come back here (good luck, given that we have no Recent Comments), you should know that ۞ is using interesting-looking links to steal peoples souls! Quite the marketing campaign he’s got going! If you want to give your soul away and have it taken care of, click on Wench Beth’s site and Lilith and I will take good care of it for you!
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How 2 fix the dodgy characters that appear when you change servers:
http://www.orthogonalthought.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/mysql-database-migration-and-special-characters/
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