It’s over - we’re finally out of The Dark Ages. It didn’t last long. In fact, for a dark age, it was quite short. It’s more of a young dark age.

Basically, the website went down for a couple of days due to problems with the server. When it came back up, all comments since the 19th of February were missing, because no backups had been made on the server since then.

So yours truly has been kind enough to manually re-add every single comment by hand including setting the correct day and time. Yah, I’m kind to you all. The previous post, by the way, now racks up the record for the most comments on a post. If I’d known that was going to happen, I’d have put more doggy porn on here. (Don’t worry - I’m only joking! That would be wrong. You have my word - no more doggy porn. That goes for you too Will - no more sending me doggy porn!) Tell ya what though - it’s great to see all those gravatars working.

During The Dark Ages I was a bit worried, because I tried talking to the 24 hour live technical support team over ICQ. Unfortunately, they didn’t talk back. Neither of them. They were both useless. Fortunately, I heard from them via email (which is how I now know that it was some sort of technical fault with the server itself). For anyone interested, the name of the server is Oxygen. Which is nice. I’m not entirely sure what exactly went wrong with the server - my guess is that it suffocated.

I’m about to enter my own personal dark age. I’m giving up fizzy drinks for Lent. That’s right boys and girls; no more Coke, no more Pepsi, and no more Lucozade. But that’s not the worst part. Giving things up for lent isn’t supposed to be easy, and for me it most certainly won’t be. Want to know why?

Shloer is a fizzy drink.

I’m scared.

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