We'll we're back! We didn't get in to Hellfire itself but I am sure Kimiko or Tatsumi will fill you in, they are both asleep for the moment :)

On another note, a kind person who had access to the system until minutes ago did take the opportunity to tell us that something was amiss with our password database as well as taking great pains to detail everything this person thought was wrong with Kimiko's existence and lifestyle, not to mention my posterior. If you would like to see what I had to say about all this, go ahead and read all about it, the full text of this gem of a letter is included. I am sure Kimiko will have more to say on that topic as well :)

In any case, I am mentioning this because if you had signed up with us via DMR, you will find that your account is no longer active. Since it's demise, DMR has now not billed users for longer than the maximum membership we sold through them. Until this point we had not purged DMR users to make sure that anyone who signed up with them got their full time and to be honest, with the server move I forgot all about it.

That purge is now complete, if you have any questions please feel free to contact Kimiko or Tatsumi or myself.

By the way...

This is pretty cool :) I really like watching webcams in general, but this nightshot thing in Tatsumi's apartment pretty much rocks. I watch her all night these days and it is really a lot of fun.

Obviously, we need more cameras... many more cameras.

Anyway, I just watched her roll over and slap the hell out of her snooze button - so I am gonna slink off to be before she see's I am awake and yells at me.

Heya all, a note from the tech troll :) We have been having some serious problems with the cable modem connection this evening so the chat room has been a little flaky, and some of the cams stalled earlier on (around 4am). Sorry about that!

Hey it's Kimi using Daddy's machine. We reloaded my box so I'm in the middle of putting software back on and trying to remember passwords to millions of things. :) Going to bed now. Send me some stamina for my workout today...:hugs: K

A quick update from that guy on the camera! Kimiko is sick, Tatsumi is sleeping and I am working. The computer room is pretty dark but you can see Kimiko under that black & white blanket, and members can see Tatsumi in infra-red on the floater, so there is life here - it's just all asleep.

Oh, membership sign up should be working again this week :)

A note from Daddy... - Some news about the technical/news side of girl2 that you might be interested in.

* The membership software will be back on in full force by the middle of the week, so anyone waiting to join will be able to do so real soon now!

* We are hoping to have the floating camera in Tatsumi's apartment this comming week as well, so you should be able to help me keep an eye on our wandering teamgirl with nightshot again... and since I won't be there we won't have to keep the camera pointed mostly away fom the bed!

* The Girl2 CD's are back in development now that our systems are all settled - actually we are just in a testing phase. If we owe you a CD then rest assured it is going to ship this month

* Girl2 will be offering merchandise again soon, including new t-shirts and cool other stuff, we will be using PayPal to help us with all that and we are pretty happy about it

* Expect the 'official' chat room to come home in a week or so, powered by some incredible new software

* Ultracam should be up by the end of November

* We have lots of great new photography planned, and a lot more media in general more often. Look for short MPEG & MP3 clips to show up as the site changes.

* We will continue running both audio streams under Live365 for now

The big news - under current circumstances we are not going to be able to install our T-1 line into the current location so we are goign to continue for now to host our sites (including Girl2) on the servers at rackspace.com. This is actually a good thing for now for a number of reasons:

1) The current girl2 server is sitting in a battery backed, earthquake-proof data center

2) The server is totally dedicated to us, so I can continue to hack on it as if it was in this room

3) The tech support at rackspace is amazing, so even if I am busy the girls can get anything fixed/altered they need too

4) The server is monitored 24 / 7 / 365

5) Any hardware that goes down will be replaced asap

6) The data pipe that server is on is actually much larger than the dual t-1's we had it on here. It sits on a bus served by multiple T-3's

So, the sites will run fast and happy there for the next few months until I can build them a nice safe home to come back to :)

I would like to personally thank you all for being so patient while we get all this settled.

Ken
(Daddy)