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Where’s the “Undo” Button On This Thing?

JJ — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:19:37 +0000

Hi folks. Just a quick post to let you know that we’ve had a loss of data and the downloads are not currently available. The culprit here was a tinkering webmaster (me) and and a crappy Wordpress plugin that decided to delete a folder without telling me what it was doing. It’s possible our hosting company can restore the domain from a backup, but I’m not going to count on it.

We have backups of almost everything, and I’m going to begin the process of getting those re-uploaded onto the site as soon as I can, but the main thing that we don’t have consistent backups of are the HD versions of season 1.

If you or anyone else you know has all of season 1 in the HD format, I’d appreciate it if you could upload them somewhere like FileFront and email me a link to the file(s) at jeff@smoothfewfilms.com. No need to post the links in the comments, but if you want to “claim” which episodes you are uploading, that might help prevent folks from doubling up on the same episodes. Thanks!

UPDATE: Lucky for us, it looks like I actually jumped the gun here. When I started downloading a backup of the remaining folders on the site, it was a much bigger download than I was expecting. I dug around a bit and it turns out that the stupid plugin had just moved the missing folder about three deep inside a few other folders. Needless to say, I’m both relieved and in the process of making a giant backup of the entire site. You can return to previously scheduled programming now.

Growing Pains

JJ — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:18:23 +0000

As you may have heard, a vast army of elves is currently toiling 24/7 to bring you a brand-new Smooth Few Films website.

In the process of doing this, the existing Leet World website may start misbehaving or looking funny, and there will definitely be an unknown period of time where both sites will be down while I have to do a bit of behind-the-scenes magic and make sure everything is in working order before we open it back up to the public. Hopefully the downtime won’t take too long.

This is just a friendly note to let everyone know that you shouldn’t freak out if our site is down / broken / etc. today and tomorrow. We hope to have everything back to regularly scheduled programming on Monday (September 8th).

NOTE: Kirk Cameron not included.

Download Mirrors for Part Three

JJ — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:42:13 +0000

Here are some download mirrors for the MP4s and WMV of Part Three:

~~Quicktime/MP4 (640×360) (Part 3)~~
Quicktime/MP4 HD (1280×720) (Part 3)
~~Windows Media (640×360) (Part 3)~~

Thanks for your patience as we’ve been dealing with server issues after the episode release.

Gravatars: Avatars + Gravy

JJ — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:01:27 +0000

You may have noticed something different in the comments section of our site – little user icons are showing up next to each comment. Most folks are showing up as little grey heads, but a handful have user pictures, and YOU CAN TOO. It’s dead simple… just go to http://gravatar.com/ and sign up for an account with your email address.

Now whenever you leave a comment on a Gravatar-enable site and enter in the email address you configured on the Gravatar site, the user icon you selected will show up next to your comment. It’s one more way to make your comments stand out, and I think it’s a cool little feature.

You don’t have to register for an account on our site for this feature to work, and it’ll also work retroactively, so your user icon will appear next to any of the comments you’ve already made using the same email address.

Cheers,
Your Friendly Neighborhood ~~Spiderman~~ Webmaster

The Wonderful World of FAQs

JJ — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:39:50 +0000

Just a quick post: we all put our heads together and came up with a FAQ page to help answer some of the common questions you guys submit. You can check it out at http://www.smoothfewfilms.com/faq/, and if the question you want answered isn’t on there, please feel free to fill out the form at the bottom of that page. Thanks!

Scheduled Downtime Tonight

JJ — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:15:41 +0000

Hi folks, just a quick note… We’ve been informed by our webhost that they will be moving server clusters tonight, November 30th, starting at 10:00PM PST (GMT – 8). They estimate this process will take about 8 hours, so for those of us living on Central time, it should be fairly painless. For folks in other countries… not so much.

Thanks, and, as always, please donate. Your dollars buy Leeroy more computer peripherals.

Podcast Feed!

JJ — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:39:01 +0000

Your friendly webmaster here, with a quick update…

Although it took me a little longer than I thought it would, I’ve hacked together an iTunes podcast feed. Here’s the link:

http://www.smoothfewfilms.com/wp-rssvideo.php

This feed will work in any RSS reader, but if you plug it into a podcast-ready program like iTunes, it will automatically download the newest episode of The Leet World in our iPod-ready format. Subscribe to your heart’s content!