The Polit site is back, freshly updated for PHP version 5 on the new sca.org.au servers. It was a tough assignment! Let me know if there are any problems, but I believe it will be fully functional, although there may be problems with the mail functionality, so you may not be able to send emails via the contacts page. Not sure about that; it could just be slow. We’ll see how it looks in the morning.
You will have noticed by now that the Polit website is down. Del (the sca.org.au server owner) mentioned a while back that he’d be upgrading the servers to use a new version of PHP, so I researched the particular functions that my sites use and thought it wouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately, one of the function libraries that the Polit site relies on was made optional between the old and new versions of the underlying server software, and it didn’t occur to me that Del wouldn’t install it as a matter of course. As a bonus, some weirdnesses in my own computer’s setup made it impossible for me to perform the same upgrade until just last weekend, so I couldn’t test my assumptions even if I’d known I had to. Sigh. I am currently rewriting the part of the site that needs to change. I hope to have it working before the end of this coming week, family and work permitting.
The website tracks the baronial awards given by our past and present barons and baronesses. Unfortunately, it’s out of date: Leta and Edmund dropped out of the SCA for a while after they stepped down (this is fairly normal - you spend some time as landed B&B and you’ll deserve a break too!) and didn’t give me a list of the awards they’d given. Thus, with a few exceptions, there’s nothing in there since the reign of Francois and Aelfthrythe.
So: if you’re a past or present baron or baroness, please get in touch with whatever information you can give me about awards you’ve presented to people. Alternatively, if you’ve received an award within the barony, please let me know the award and the date you got it.