More to come!

The short version of the story is that on 3 April 2007 I decided I needed help with a bad flareup of a chronic intestinal problem. In effect, the hospital said nevermind that, the heart failure will kill you first!

DateDiff is located here.

Also I've partnered with Microsoft/Hotmail to offer you free email accounts under the domain name TheBirthdayCalculator.com.

These are Hotmail accounts with 250MB of space and eventually 2GB when transitioned to Windows Live Mail but unlike a normal Hotmail account your email address will be @TheBirthdayCalcultor.com. For example, you could be YourName@TheBirthdayCaclulator.com where YourName is any name of your choice.

You can find the links to sign-up on the Birthday Calculator page or on my site's main page.

I've added a free reminder service from Grow Flowers. This is a totally free service that will send you reminders of events of your choosing. I've dealt with Grow Flowers for a while and trust them to maintain your privacy.

There's a graphic on the bottom of the Birthday Calculator results page where you can sign up or you can click on this link, Reminder Service.

The purpose of the space is to serve as both a blog in which I can post comments on the messages I've received about the calculator, and for you to post your own public comments, thoughts and questions. You may continue, if you like, to send me private messages via the Feedback links on this site.

To post on the Spaces blog you will need a Passport/Hotmail/Windows Live account. Many of you surely do but they are easy to obtain if you don't. I'm sorry to have to take this approach but inconsiderate spammers were posting tons and tons of spam to the old message board which not only cluttered the board but required I go in and delete them one by one. It just not worth the effort or having you all subjected to the spam. So, again, my apologies but this seems the best solution given the nature of the Internet today.

Thank you all once again for your patience and continued support.

For the record, this site used about 40% of the allowed bandwidth at the time I signed up with 1and1. 1and1.com raised those limits three times to what is frankly an absurd amount such that this site now uses only 2% of the allowed bandwidth. So at no time in the past nine months has this site even once exceeded allowed bandwidth usage or disk space usage. We can only assume since 1and1 has refused to explain the  throttle that they raised the limits to an absurd level as an advertising gimmick to attract new signups. Perhaps they oversold the servers and are now throttling sites in violation of their terms and contract. We will never know exactly what happened because they refuse to explain.

What is clear is that they by their actions, by their failure to live up to the terms of the contract they have willfully injured this site, its owner and you the users.

Webmasters considering 1and1 hosting should beware.