A brief outage to service tonight between 8.30 and 9pm (not all of that time, but some of it) due to an apparent power hiccup affecting Wellington CBD. Took the opportunity to run some upgrades when restoring services. All should now be well.

Apologies if anyone noticed the blakjak.net outage during the above timeframe; it appears the server simply 'ran out of juice'... It has been rebooted and we're looking into why it hung, and what we can do to prevent it occuring in future. An upgrade may well be on the cards. :o)

At somet stage in the next 30 minutes the BlakJak.net server will be rebooted as part of the upgrades recently applied. Downtime should be less than 10 minutes and as always, get in touch directly if you notice any problems.

Just a quick note, today we're applying some routine upgrades to the server - apologies for any disruption to service caused.

Due to a major power failure in the Wellington area, between approx 1515 and 1630 this afternoon, the BlakJak.net server was down during this time. There were some flow-on connectivity problems for about another hour afterward. Stuff is 'back' but as always, let me know if you spy something not-quite-right.

Apologies for the loss of service this morning between approx 0100 and 0900. This was caused by a power outage in the Wellington CBD around 0100 and by a loss of network connectivity to the building that houses my server, continuing through until 0900. Aside from some brief inability to hit website(s) and some delays in receiving email, there should've been no impact.

As I posted to Facebook the other day.... :D :D :D

With thanks to the Wellywood Sign Generator. :-)

Should've installed it a long time ago, but there it is. Not entirely sure how to make it 'do it's thang' but if you have any problems with content URLs, this may well be it - let me know if so...

Back to manually creating logins for the time being. Persistent spammers don't know when to quit!
Must get around to coming up with a decent way to prevent junk signups.

Folks may have seen a few things subtly change here... it's been a while since I had a serious look at the site's Theme and layout, so i'm tinkering. When I find something that looks the part, i'll commission it 'live'. Folks with logins to the site who're interested in providing feedback can get in touch; I can enable themes on a per-user basis without mangling the site proper.