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 updated the blog to WordPress 2.5 the other day.  It went very smoothly (which surprised me) the style still works as do all plugins except the tagally one which pains me as it was pretty colours!

I’ve been feeling a bit out of sorts of late, hence my very little interaction on here.  We’ve had server load issues with the host which, I hope, are sorted now.  At the very least, it seems a little faster currently, but we’ll see!

Kids are still on school holidays - got another week of em at home and I’m just about fit to murder.  It’s not really their fault.  They’re cooped up indoors because there’s absolutely nothing they can do around here and, because I don’t drive, I can’t take them anywhere.  Using public transport while having to take a double buggy and having to watch two kids under 6 is pretty much impossible when you’re on your own as Gary’s at work.  So stuck indoors with very little to do except drive me insane!

I’m very happy with the progess of IaBT, if you haven’t come over and joined you really should!  We still have a very small memberbase but we’re close to hitting 5,000 posts - none of which have been spam, which I find amazing.  I think it shows how vBulletin’s new spam system is working as I’ve seen bot accounts trying to register on there without any success at all!

BookWeazle is moving along a lot slower, but it hasn’t been advertised as yet and I’m focusing on us getting content on there and still figuring out a style before really putting it out there.  The Blog part is moving forward though with reviews getting added regularly.

I also have decided to bring back a site that’s always held a special place to me.  It was the first site I ever built and while running on Ezboard was extremely popular.  I closed it down about 3 years ago, but have decided it’s time for it to return - albeit not on Ezboard, but on vBulletin!  A Magickal Journey is still very much in the building stage - the blog area will house articles and the products area (where you can purchase Natal (Birth) Charts and Tarot Readings and the forum area (once built) will be a place for people to discuss all aspects of spiritualism, religion, paranormal and supernatural topics.

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