| |  Paradigm
 Seattle, WA
6/9/2008 3:31:48 AM | As surely all of you have noticed, the Site was down for almost 2 days. The good news first - we seem to be back up and running. Now to the obvious question - what happened?
The short, and rather sad story, is that Friday night I received a call that sweet, old cousin Stewie has passed away. Naturally, then entire family jumped on planes to congregate in Northern California, to help with funeral perparations and comfort each other through the tragic loss. It appears, that sometime on Saturday, Steward's ghost decided to visit EyeFetch, and trip over the network cable at our hosting provider. Any other day, I would have gotten notice within minutes, and the issue would have been solved in minutes. However, given the circumstances, I was completely unreachable except for family, and naturally was preoccupied with dealing with life - and death - than having to worry about EyeFetch.
To conclude this rather chaotic and sad weekend, when I arrived back home, I checked my email and voice messages and immediately found out that EyeFetch had been down. On further investigation with the hosting company, it was found that the primary network cable to the site's main server was mysteriously not working anymore.
Under any other circumstances I would be incredibly upset with the hosting company. But to be honest, this weekend reminded me again that there are things more important in life that a website run as a hobby, and so I say this to you all: Sincere apologies for the very lengthy outage, but please don't be too angry, because there are really more tragic and more important things in life!
And now, back to more happy thoughts - and back to sharing our love for Art, which is just another way of loving life! |
| |  Lammerman
Aurora
6/9/2008 3:55:29 AM | Im very sorry for your loss. Your family are in my thoughts and prayers.
Joe
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| | TuscanIce
New England
6/9/2008 4:08:26 AM | I'm so sorry for your loss Paradgm. You and your family are in my prayers. |
| | annchane
 Cloud Cuckoo Land
6/9/2008 4:34:34 AM | I'm very sorry to hear of your loss Para. And of course you are right, this is JUST a website and you must always put your family first and foremost. I spent most of yesterday at the hospital as my father suffered a heart attack, so for the first time ever, I didn't MISS EF. I was too busy worrying about dad. Not to worry though, I have phoned the hospital this morning and he is 'comfortable'. Once again, I am sorry for your loss. |
| | Gittan
6/9/2008 4:46:44 AM | I am so sorry for your loss Paradigm...
The most important in life are family and friends.
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
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| | charlane
Birmingham, AL
6/9/2008 7:51:50 AM | my condolences on your loss, and yes..there are many things in the world more important |
| | BenzelPhotography
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6/9/2008 7:54:51 AM | this is important to us BUT family comes 1st! Please accept our deep condolences for your loss...
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| | mandysmother
SE Michigan
6/9/2008 8:08:01 AM | I am so sorry to hear of your loss Paradgm. You and your family are in my prayers. |
| |  BOLLA67
MY DARK WORLD,NY
6/9/2008 8:28:27 AM | My condolenses tyo you and your family Paradigm |
| | PaulTyrer
6/9/2008 9:17:29 AM | Very sorry to hear of the loss of your cousin Stewie, and what you said,
"Under any other circumstances I would be incredibly upset with the
hosting company. But to be honest, this weekend reminded me again that
there are things more important in life that a website run as a hobby,
and so I say this to you all: Sincere apologies for the very lengthy
outage, but please don't be too angry, because there are really more
tragic and more important things in life!"
Is so true!! It is, after all, only a web site, but a brilliant one at that!
And to all of you Admins and Co-Admins, what more can be said than 'Great R10++'!!!
And you never know, the cable could have been pulled to give you a bit of a break from emails and PMS .....
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| | paramjap
6/9/2008 9:52:37 AM |
First my deep condolences for the loss in your family .
May his soul rest in peace ... and god bless .
Family always comes first and they are the foremost priority .
But eyefetch is as good as a family and it was surely missed a lot . ...
. |
| |  pahlrs
Waldport, Oregon
6/9/2008 10:28:47 AM | Very sorry for your loss, and welcome back. Such places as this also keep life 'real' in that it keeps us from spiraling into depression with the news of the day and constant evidence of the frailty of man. Love, friendship and understanding - respect for the life experience of others - can help pull (or push) us along. Many thanks for helping to provide such a place where we can share these experiences. |
| | oshngirl
6/9/2008 10:46:58 AM | So sorry to hear of your loss Paradigm! Very happy to see you all back, I was aimlessly wandering the internet all weekend with EF gone, it's the only website left I can routinely check and it actually changes ;) |
| | amerstravels
Northridge (Los Angeles)
6/9/2008 10:50:44 AM | I am very sorry for your loss, it puts things in perspective.
I just hope everyone used the time while the site was down to go out and take some great pictures and/or do some editing and reflect on what is really important in life, rather than all the fighting over trivial issues that normally goes on on this site. |
| | JMorgan7
6/9/2008 4:25:32 PM | I offer my sincere condolences. My prayers are with you. |
| | JohnSokol
Tri-Cities
6/9/2008 4:48:02 PM | Thanks for posting the short and not so sweet details on the outage, the worst part is the not know what happened to our beloved EF. Take care and know that there is a big bunch of your EF community thinking about you and your family and hoping that you are able to find the good in your families loss.
=)
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| | BlaneFox
Lynchburg,VA
6/9/2008 5:56:29 PM | im sorry for your loss.
we will pray for you.
be happy you had a happy family that would fly to congregate and share your loss.
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| | BKvonBernhard
Southern , California.
6/9/2008 10:01:15 PM | So sorry for your loss Paradigm. Pray for Janny tomorrow. She gets her results about cancer tomorrow.
Warm regards.
Barry |
| | JeannieErickson
Richland
6/9/2008 10:57:07 PM | Oh my goodness....we are so sorry. Of all the times to have the system crash during this time, but your EF family supports you and we are praying for comfort and peace as the time goes on. |
| | ROSYART
COUNTRY: England, UK
6/10/2008 3:30:09 AM | Dear Paradigm
Our prayers are with you and your family
Rosy |
| | kritti
 Bucharest
6/10/2008 6:09:20 AM | Sorry for your loss.
And yes, you're right, we get frustrated too easily, forgeting there are things more important in life... as life itself, for instance... |
| | mistressotdark
 Winnipeg
6/10/2008 8:23:41 AM | very sorry for your loss...
your right there is more important things in life ....
you must look after family first |
| | jenxie
Somewhere in Virginia
6/10/2008 9:44:17 AM | I am always amazed at your infinite wisdom and practicality.
You must be female.
:)
(just trying to make you smile...) |
| | tcPrice
6/10/2008 9:50:01 AM | May your cousin Stewie rest in peace... my sincere condolences. |
| | JeffFreiberg
Tri-Cities
6/22/2008 9:09:28 PM | sorry for your loss |
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