I had hoped to do so much this weekend, but I fell ill and spent much of my weekend in bed. At work I am very behind on my work too. So I’m a bit buggered at the moment, and people must just be patient for a week while I recuperate as well as focus on my work.

I have however started some processes for us to move forward, after having spent a lot of time thinking and having consulted many people.

1. The Discussion Forums were a huge success, but I did not expect them to draw so many people with other viewpoints. I have decided that since my site is a public site I must take this into consideration. So, with this in mind, I am starting on phase one of two phases – to get a lot of Opinions from the people who frequent the site.

I need to assess what the opinions of our visitors are so that when I reinstate the discussion forums that I can cater adequately for everyone. I need to feel the pulse of the people visiting and their viewpoints.

So I am starting with the first poll – but there will be many. There will be others based on an article, by article basis. This is to “feel the pulse”. So, please give your honest opinion. Note, if you vote twice, the computer will say “Thank you” but will actually discard your 2nd vote.

People did say to me they wanted anonymous votes – and so I did that. I won’t record who voted and how they voted. So it is anonymous, please be honest. I want to hear your opinions.

Also, by doing it this way, I can avoid CONFLICT. This allows me time to assess things and for us to take into consideration how we are going to deal with people’s of widely diverging viewpoints.

Please make the most of this increasing interactivity in the website in the weeks to come.

2. The forums will be back. But exactly when, in what format or even where remains to be seen. Someone made a suggestion that the forums be put on a separate website altogether. I will throw this around for discussion by others.

3. I have switched off the old forums completely and removed them – for now.

4. On the Forums/Guestbook menu I added a new page as per someone’s suggestion. It is to report Suspicious activity/events.

5. On the weekend, I spoke to two of my friends who previously had pooh poohed this whole business of email interception previously. Between them TWO new possible instances of email interception were discussed. The one instance seems to indicate either: Phone tapping or email interception. The other MIGHT indicate email DELETION. We will investigate more.

I would like people to use the suspicious activity page to report strange events and happenings. I want to see what comes up and to analyse and discuss it with people. It is highly troubling.

My advice is: Beware of email.

6. I will post news as my time allows. This week is going to be a bit difficult and heavy for me. It shows once more, how important it is to get involvement from others.

7. To those nice people who copied the site. I will be contacting you. Many have sent me emails. We need to discuss options and plans for the future. Please just allow me some time to get back to you.

I’m rather tired, so I’m going to get some much-needed sleep.