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2004-01-19 - 3:06 a.m. distraction well I suppose Andrew and our beloved DLand need another fix for I am noticing that the database is busy more often than not when I come to add an entry into my free diary... my supergold and gold member diaries are fine, so the challenge does appear to be overload as opposed to some technical difficulties... and I suppose it is only fair for use freeloaders to have to wait in line from time to time... but 3:06AM Eastern U.S. Time on a Monday morning?... logic presents a case that after midnight Pacific U.S. Time might be a slow time for the servers... but then, perhaps most DLanders are night owls like me and the servers are extra busy at this time and it's not just a clever sub-script for freeloaders in the hopes that the delay and sales pitch page will somehow (through guilt or some other sense of responsibility) convince extra money to appear where there is none so we poor folk can send another few sawbucks (those would be $10 bills, U.S.) to dear Andrew and company because, after all, it is only fair that we put all this time and energy into writing and creating web pages that millions of people visit each day and pay for the privilege, right?... ok, the blessing that Andrew gives is no advertising, I think, and that is a major blessing... and convenience and server space... that is why he gets almost a hundred bucks a year from me... but when I consider that I can get a gigabytes of server space for the same price... and I can use excellent software to make creating pages and adding entries convenience... for the same hundred bucks a year... well, I wonder why I stay and pay... community, perhaps... but then, poverty demands some respect and good sense too... community is where you find it and create it... if someone gets a thousand hits a day at Dland and moved their exact design to their own server, would not most of their automatically redirected readers continue reading?... on the other hand, the extras are cool if they are used... comments, for instance... if you get dozens for each entry, you wouldn't want to lose those... but is there no way to get comments through say, a program like Moveable Type on your own server that costs say, $5 a month? (for dozens of diaries if you'd like more than one for yourself and your friends)... stats are good... fun... helpful... and better on many other servers... surveys, rings, favorites, profiles, and all the other perks here at DLand can be found elsewhere too... free, in some cases... so why stay at DLand at $50+ bucks a year?... laziness... yup, mostly laziness... and so I pay to stay lazy... so I don't have to search for better (or at least equivalent) servers and software and scripts and features elsewhere and then learn how to use them and so on... but I am realizing something... laziness can be expensive... all that said, I will continue to love Andrew and DLand... and I will continue to plug DLand everywhere I go (without the questions I ponder in entries like this one) because I want attention and I appreciate the format and forum Andrew provides... and so I'll renew my supergold and gold memberships on my other diaries and continue considering paying for gold or supergold for this one one of these days when I find an extra fifty bucks on the street... yes, when all is said and done I might grumble about the busy servers page and do not like waiting in line and cringe at the time passing as words I have on the tip of my tongue dissolve into the frustration of clicking again and again to get to this white box where I can let those words, whatever might be left of them, out... write in notepad and then come here... good idea, a habit I must continue to remember to practice... especially since it would give me copies of my entries in case the DLand servers ever crash and burn so bad that my diary is lost... shudder... ***shudder*** I think I'll cut and paste every one of my pages right now... that download your diary feature for supergold members never did work for me for one reason or another... it would be so cool if it did... now what was it I came here to write about?...
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