TuscanyCircle is back again. We went offline for registered users (anything that used SSL for access) for over an hour due to a mistake by my hosting service. All should be well now. Let me know if you see anything not working fully, though.

TuscanyCircle has undergone some minor changes recently. First, you'll notice the link colors have changed. Next, you should notice that the URL for its "All nodes" feed has changed from http://tuscanycircle.net/node/... to http://tuscanycircle.net/view/.... The former is now named "Front Page" and does not contain all new content but only that which has been promoted to the front pages. » read more »

If you'd like to stay current with new front-page content added to TuscanyCircle (blogs, forum posts, comments, shouts), there are three RSS feeds to which you should subscribe:

• "all nodes"
• "all comments"
• "shoutbox"

There are listed as feeds on every page (under Firefox' feed icon, for example) as well as under the "rss" menu item for your convenience. The "Front Page" feed only catches those nodes promoted to the front page.

If you're new to RSS, try this brief tutorial. » read more »

If you find any links on TuscanyCircle that appear to be broken, let me know. So far, they've all been caused by news articles and such that were removed by the linked site. You gotta wonder why they might do that! Sometimes I can find copies of the missing articles online and restore them locally. The major media obviously fails in its job of holding our rulers accountable, so it's up to the blogosphere to perform this duty--except that we have to hold the media itself accountable, too.

TuscanyCircle is now on its new server. Hopefully, the new and improved hardware and software services will make this site better (e.g., faster). Please let me know immediately if you notice anything wrong with the site as a result of the move. » read more »

I have unintentionally deleted several, old forum posts. They are not recoverable.

I was cleaning up the forum structure and changing the node types for some of them. Unfortunately, and unknown to me, when changing the type from forum (to anything else), there was still a little forum-ness left behind. When the forum category--now seemingly empty--was deleted, these previously forum-type nodes were found and dutifully deleted. Apparently, this is a bug in the module I use to change node types. I'm disabling that until it can be fixed.

In the meantime, if you know of a node that has been deleted (found a link, searched, etc.) and are able to find its cached version (Google caches what it finds), please send me the text, and I'll recreate it. I'm doing this on a few nodes I know were deleted incorrectly. » read more »

TuscanyCircle is quite slow presently. This is due to the breach of contract our new NOC provider has made (virtual servers instead of dedicated). We'll be changing NOC providers soon (before year's end, I expect). In the meantime, please be patient. » read more »

The privacy policy and ICRA label have been brought up to date. Let me know if you have any issues with them.

TuscanyCircle has trackbacks! If you don't know what they are, just ignore them. Otherwise, we encourage their legitimate use, because it'll raise visibility of the site (not to mention being good netiquette). » read more »

TuscanyCircle is finally back online! See http://tuscanycircle.net/drupa... for some information on this disaster.

The NOC fires of '04 and '05 combined didn't take TuscanyCircle offline for nearly as long as this latest fiasco--an unnecessary, avoidable one at that, caused by gross incompetence.

Emails to our domain over the last 3 days have not been delivered. Most SMTP servers (the email postal service) will try to resend for up to 5 days, so we hope these lost emails will come trickling in over the next several hours. However, we know some SMTP servers are configured to give up trying after less than 24 hours (more like the USPS). Polite SMTP servers should alert the senders to this failure to deliver, though. If you're not sure your emails got through to us, please resend them.