Dear Friends,

There is no easy way for me to say this.

Diary-X has suffered from an unrecoverable drive failure. Due to a combination of issues, the last backup (from December 2004) contained only configuration files and other non-essential files. We do not have any other backups for the site. All journals, user information, forum posts, templates, images, and everything else are all irrecoverably lost.

In the past several hours, I have had to decide whether or not I should put the site back online at all. Only those users who backed up their own journals (either using the journal download tool or otherwise saving each entry) would be able to reconstruct their journals. Everyone else would have to start over. Whatever developed as a result would still be called Diary-X, but it wouldn't be the same.

I believe it makes the most sense to close Diary-X permanently. Tentatively, the site will go dark on March 31st, 2006.

Thank you for being so generous with your donations during this crisis. Your generosity and kind words were the sole bright spots during this disaster. If you would like a refund, please send an e-mail to mdeken@gmail.com with your name and PayPal e-mail address, and we will process it as soon as we can, hopefully within 24 hours.

If you would like to discuss this matter further, you may contact me at the address below. I will do my best to answer your questions if they were not addressed here.

Regretfully,

Stephen Deken
stephen.deken@gmail.com

SO SAD RIGHT?!
my lovely, sadistic, bimbotic, bitchy, crestfallen entries ALL GONE!
more than a year of beautiful entries. HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO DIARY-X?!
i am so so sad. let us all mourn for the loss for an hour.

[one hour later...]

ok today i finally bought my bag! muahahah! :D:D:D! it's a black puma sling. 89 bucks. i saw it very long time ago but didnt felt a strong urge to buy it last time. maybe cause i didnt need it and now that i have decided not to buy the guess bag anymore. i can buy any other cheaper-than-the-guess-bag bag! hope i can get another tote. hrmm.

my life is sooo perfect now :D
except for the 2 tests next week.
i talked to angeline. met up with longyu. and blahblah.
dont tell you.
haha. actually there's nothing much to tell either.
so there..
enjoy life! :D