09.30.07
modblog, bme and zentastic
editted: It would appear the situation is somewhat unclear, so I pulled my original post. I have re-opened it because people seem to have found it and been 404′d into confusion. I offer no judgement, make no calls, I just hope it all works out ok.
original post:
My many and various vanilla friends, don’t click on these links, they will only scare you.
A love modblog.bmezine.com, I’m a bme memeber, and a devotee to zentastic, Shannon Larratt’s personal blog. Shannon and I are polar oposites in the world, we really are, but his love and devotion to his daughter really shine through in his posts and photos, and he is somebody who really really does inspire me virtually every day.
There have been some rumblings on the interweb about whats going on over in Canada, and this post from Warren Ellis scared me a bit, especially as the original post on modblog has since been deleted (if indeed it was there - I assum it was - but I didn’t see it). Anyway, I went to log into iam.bmezine.com today for the first time in ages (IAM is the personal networky bit of BME) and got the following message ”
IAM is currently offline.
Recently, many ugly rumors and innuendos have been spreading across the Internet regarding the fate of BMEzine, BMEvideo, IAM and Modblog, as well as the state of our personal relationship. Allow me to address the two issues separately.First, I wish to assure you that BMEzine, BMEvideo, and Modblog are fine and will continue to be so. While we have experienced some technical difficulties with IAM as of late, we expect those to be resolved in short order. Your personal content is perfectly safe, and will not be lost. Some user accounts appear to have been deleted but please don’t worry as we have a complete back up of the site from Wednesday September 19th, 2007 on a machine that is not affected by this outage. Those of you experiencing difficulty accessing the site will be fully credited for your down time. I wish to assure you that Shannon and Myself will continue in our respective roles at BMEzine as long as we both desire and I will strive to ensure its healthy future.
BMEshop is entirely unrelated to this matter and is accepting and shipping orders just as they normally do.
Shannon is currently updating BodyTwo during this unscheduled outage. Shannon’s desired contact email address is snowrail@gmail.com.
Regarding personal matters, I feel sad that any issues regarding my relationship with my husband have been made public. I know you understand that there is a fine line between public and personal personas, a line that often blurs, especially in the “he said, she said” world of the Internet. Please respect our wishes to keep our personal lives just that…personal, while we work through this trying time.
Our mutual wish is that you continue to enjoy BMEzine and its family of sites. Please know that we value your contributions and the community at large.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Best regards,
Rachel Larratt
BMEzine.com”
Shannon has a post about the situation here over at bodyTwo, where he seems to be maintaining a blog thats a bit like modblog. I hope all goes well, it’s a rubbish way to spend a birthday.
tlw said,
October 1, 2007 at 1:56 am
Yes, it is rather sad. I’ve been posting about it for the past couple of days, since it has been a problem for the entire BME/IAM community at large. Hopefully, it will all be done and over with soon enough.