Some technical news - and it's all good! Some of you have noticed that the cams have been running much more reliably for the last few weeks. We have been moving more of our processing to our server so that the wierdness in the girls cable modems is eliminated. To this end we have brought a brand new server online at Rackspace and we will be migrating to it later this week. This should allow us to do a lot of the cool things we have been looking forward to for more than a year now.

We will ask your patience during any downtime we might have, though we will certainly try and keep it to an absolute minimum. When we are done we will be able to provide you with some incredible features including live video broadcasts with synchronized audio and more reliable audio streams. We will also be moving the chat server software to the Rackspace box so the chat rooms will become much more reachable.

If we do go with the streaming technology we have in mind we will be running Windows Media format streams. While this may make it somewhat difficult for our non-windows users to see the streaming video we gain a lot by doing it. On the other hand, we can continue to use the TeVo or Ultravid solutions... any thoughts? Email me!

Daddy: Well, that has been somewhat productive :) We have a box here at Tatsumi's place for Kimiko to use now so I suspect you will be seeing us over here more - and that means the girls will be in one place more often! With any luck we will get the audio stream from Tatsumi's up again in a day or two and the things will really get going. Also, we put in another small UPS over here so that will keep tatsumi online in the event of a power failure.
The big news is that we moved some important parts of our technology off of the cable modem at Kimiko's place and onto our dedicated server. No, not web stuff but some backend functions that were important to the camera's. That means that you should see the cams be much, much more stable now. Night!

Hey everyone! 'Daddy' here. I just wanted to take a second and thank the girls publically for what they have been doing over the last days/weeks to help out. Tatsumi has been doing an incredible job at our client site as well as here. She has been a developer, graphic designer & business manager and it has really made it possible for us to work with this client so well. Kimiko has been holding down the fort here at the dotPub offices and been super patient with how much time she has had to spend along, not to mention pitching in when we need her.

Thanks girls!