Mew :'(
The reason that my shop has not been working - is that Cafe Press are experiancing a Targeted Distrabuted Denial of Service!
This is bad especially at christmas - those of you that managed to actually view the site I'd linked to may have seen the complete hash of it, that occured becuase I was trying to add a section when the service went 'intermittent'. I have not been able to go and change it as my site isnt up long enough to do so!
But at least I have that much access many have none at all. I am lucky in that this is not my main source of income - infact I have yet to make any money from it at all, but for many it is their livily hood - not to mention the Cafe Press people themselves.
As they cannot get any information out like credit card numbers I woundered why someone would bother with this unless they hated a site - what I've found out makes me sad.
ie someone out there must be using lots of computers to target the server(s) to bring it down - their are two other reasons I can think of why someone would do this - ones blackmail - ie pay us or we wont stop doing this or to destroy a competitor just as you launch! Internet businesses have fickle customers - if the site is down you go and find another!
Mew mew mew 🙁
Jean is working things out! like if she has been changed and is cold she inistantly hands us her clothes! Or feeling her hair then feeling yours!
Today when laid down to be changed she pointed at each item of clothing in order so trousers first then top, then nappy as Al proceeded, grinning when we said thats right!
Her true colours are also showing - today she sperned her keyboard and instead proceeded to discover the joys of coal much to my initial annoyance! She cried when I took the piece of coal off of her! She has the makings of a true geologist 🙂
I set this shop up ages ago - before I went into hospital but it sliped my mind with everything else that was going on so here it is - there will be new products avaliable - maybe even clothing with Jean on though that probably wont be in the public bit of the shop so you'll have to ask!
Its a print on demand and I get a little bit everytime something is ordered.
The prices are a bit more expensive than I would like but its through a company based in the USA if anyone knows of an English/Uk/European based one then I would be very happy to here abut it!
If there is sufficient interest in one protuct or style then I could get something printed locally and keep a stock but I do not have any start up capital for that at the moment so...
Please go, look and suggest improovements - I know I can alter the look but need to look into that a bit more.
At the moment it is only my photographs being used but I need to get some of my art work scanned propper like for another project so soon T-shirts and postcards will be availible with my artwork on! Though I realise that most people reading this have no idea what my paintings etc... are like - I will endevour to post the photos I took of some of them at some point!
though the shop isnt directly related to my craft blog Salaric it will be linked from there and my Art will be a cross over between the two!
It's not often that I get to actually write about my work other than tangentially, since it's usually somebody's trade secret, but for a long time now I've been doing the technical architecture and some of the programming for an actual publically viewable web site; and it's been under wraps during development, but now the site is soft-launching, I can start telling people about it.
Due to people repeatedly asking me how I make certian things out of say fimo and the increase in kiddy crafts with the Scouts I have started an Art and Craft blog rather than just adding more catagories onto this one!
I'll be adding it to our links but for now heres the link http://www.salaric.co.uk/
It will be updated every Sunday - so I hope you'll all go look!
There are currently no pretty pictures on it due to the Unfortunate Insident of Sarah Being Scatty and Losing the Lead for the Camera!
Hope you all enjoy it 🙂
Computing, Sarah | sarah | 
Fri 22nd Dec 2006 3:24 pm | 
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