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I just paid the annual hosting fee for this site, which is higher now because we needed a business account to handle the load. Your contributions are appreciated! If you can help, please go to this link:

http://procrastinators-anonymous.org/node/292

Thank you.

Our Web host recently discontinued support for PHP 5.2. This has broken the Chatbox, and it's not trivial to fix. The first thing I have to do is update the version of Drupal we are using, and this will require bringing down the entire site for a period of time so I can update it. Drupal is very hard to update (and the developers are proud of the lack of backward compatibility - don't get me started).

I deeply apologize to the people waiting to get access to this site. I was having various problems for a while and unable to attend to the registrations, which is very time consuming. Then this weekend, when I finally planned to do it, there was Hurricane Sandy.

Hi all,

You would all be glad to know that PA membership has reached 2000. As of posting this forum, the count stands at 2002.

How do I know ? Just click on the members list and count it. No. It is not hard as you think. There is smarter way. I leave it to you all as a puzzle.

A big congratulation to pro.

Congratulations pro!!

You must use a working email address in the forum that you actually CHECK. Your email address will never be sold or given to anyone, but I have to be able to reach people in case of problems.

FAIR WARNING: When an email address bounces or the person does not respond to repeated attempts at contact, I will delete the account. 

The chatbox is for meetings or check-ins, not for procrastination! If you are not even trying to get something done, please do not hang out in the chatbox and attempt to divert others who are trying to work. This is really important.

Thank you for cooperating.

As this site becomes more popular - and particularly as the chatbox becomes more popular - we are using more resources on the server.

I just received a letter - second one - from our Web host complaining about the usage on this site. They want to move us to a new server with a lower average load. That will bring the site down for about an hour. This will probably happen soon, maybe even today.

Don't know if others go through this problem or not.

I find one thing that worsens my procrastination a great deal is the fact of having procrastinated a lot so far.

If I had scheduled a full day to do a task, and it's 5 PM (I work at home, and constantly, so the day is far from over, but my sleep schedule is screwed up... more on this in another thread) and I still haven't started, I feel that I'm going to do a half-assed job, I won't enjoy the rushed process of doing it, and I won't be happy with the result.

:)

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Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

I haven't yet posted guidelines for appropriate forum content because so far we haven't needed it, but I think now we do.

For the record... I am the webmaster here, and if I consider content to be inappropriate for this forum, I will delete it. I have full discretion in this matter, and my decisions are final.

Inappropriate content includes anything that is potentially offensive or disgusting to other forum members (for example, details of personal hygiene or insulting remarks), and anything that violates the law (for example, reproduction of copyrighted material without permission).

In posting, please consider not only what helps you, but what would be helpful for others to hear (and US copyright law).