Azhrialilu Dot Com

If you’re not already a member of this forum then you should be!  We changed hosts last night from Site5 which has been absolutely terrible of late to AN Hosting who seem - so far - much better!  The changeover went without a hitch and was really quick so no complaints there!

It’s  a Bitch Thing (or IaBT as it’s affectionately known) as a forum is the concept of myself, but comes from an original idea from Helena, who opened a group on Shelfari many moons ago called something slightly different for people to just generally rant and rave.  We then progressed to Anobii (which we still haunt) and I then thought we deserved our own space on the net and so IaBT the blog and forum was born.

The thinking behind it was that while there are many forums out there for general chatter, there weren’t really any for people to seriously have a bitch about the stuff that goes on in their lives, things that bug them, etc without fearing a flame-attack in return.  Obviously, there was a market for this as the site is not yet 2 months old and we’re almost at the 3,000 post mark - go us!!!!  We’re either a bunch of miserable bastards with nothing to do but complain or we just enjoy chatting with each other

So, even if you have nothing to complain about, but feel like getting together with a bunch of people who don’t take life too seriously, come on over and say hello!!!

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I think I’ve settled on this being the new style.  It’s very plain, I know.  But it’s easy on the eye with no fuss or glamour, which I prefer.  It also has some funky gizmos that I can play with when I’m bored!

I’ll design a header image over the next few days, which will add a splash of colour, and I have some ad placements to put up too.  Keep watching this space!

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Azhrialilu dot Com will be offline for a short while today sometime. Unfortunately I can’t predict what time that will be.  We’re transferring to a new hosting package with AN Hosting and once the account is set up I’ll start the move.  Hopefully it won’t take too long and the dns will propogate fast!

Wish me luck, people!!!!

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We had an earthquake last night… an earthquake!  In England!!!  Obviously it wasn’t up to the standards that other countries suffer them, but it happens so rarely here that it’s big news when it does.  The last time I remember feeling an earthquake was in 1984.  But that was mild in comparison with last night, well more like this morning.  It was close to 1am.

There I was, lying in bed minding my own business, drifting off to sleep.  Gary was snoring away next to me.  The next thing there was this loud rumbling sound followed by, what felt like, the bed shaking.  Gary almost leapt out of bed and went to the window, where he said he could feel the window vibrating.  This felt like it went on for about five minutes but apparently it was only 30 seconds or so.  At first he thought someone had broken in, followed by the comment that it couldn’t be an earthquake because it would have set off all the car alarms, so it must have been something overhead.  Needless to say, after feeling and hearing that, I found it even more difficult to go to sleep and lay awake for most of the night.

The earthquake was all over the news this morning.  According to tv and news website reports, the epicentre of the quake was 8km east of Market Rasen,Lincolnshire and 22km south of Grimsby and was a 5.2 on the Richter Scale.

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I managed to get into my old textpattern database and copy all my original posts across to the new blog.  Unfortunately, while I could access the comments, I couldn’t import them back in without having to sit and register as every person who’s posted which, while I could do, could cause problems later if those people wanted to reply to anything again under their usual names, so I erred on the side of caution and left the posts without comments.  While that makes it look like nobody ever replies to me, it also saves any problems later for my regular readers who decide to reply/comment.

More good news is that It’s A Bitch Thing is finally online.  This is collaborative blog between a group of people (and people are welcome to apply to join as a contributer/editor by emailing admin@itsabitchthing.com with examples of their writing) who are opinionated and like to speak their mind but also enjoy hearing other peoples points of view too and, speaking on behalf of the other bloggers who are part of the site, we welcome anyone who would like to join in.

More good news (on a personal front) is that the kids went back to school yesterday!!! *does a happy dance*  It’ll likely take a couple of days to get back into the normal routine, but once we’re back to that you should see more activity here.

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