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TIWWA Announces our Lance Henriksen's 70th Birthday Celebrations

Wednesday May 5th sees Lance Henriksen reach the grand age of 70 years young and as this is a milestone birthday the Millennium Fan Community (thanks to the inspiration of our founder, Graham P Smith) decided it was right and proper to mark the occasion in style and bring as many people together at www.tiwwa.info to celebrate the continuing career of one of the acting profession's brightest luminaries. To help the occasion go with a "boom boom" we have some super articles and videos looking back
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Introducing our new M-TIWWA online clothing stores!

You asked. We listened!  Many of our long time members and visitors will be familiar with the cool 'millennium-istic' t-shirt designs created by our hugely talented @ENGINECOMICS. However a lot of newer fans of the show and many first time around missed out on the opportunity to own one or more, and when they saw some images of them last year, the message was very clear. We heard you!   In order to help support our website and community forums, we've tried ads and we recentl
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Emoticon alert!

Thanks to a very long awaited feature in our latest software version at TIWWA, which provides much better smiley/emoticon management by way of categories and drag and drop re-ordering, I've finally been able re-organise the very mixed up smilies at TIWWA. We now have a General Category (for small everyday small smilies), and brand new categories for seasonal, fun, holiday etc themed smilies including Halloween, Christmas, Food themed etc. This should make it a lot easier to find your preferred s
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Don't Miss The Latest Updates And Features At This Is Who We Are!

A few days ago we upgraded to the very latest version of our Community Software. Every upgrade brings new features and enhancements to make your time here more fun, exciting and useful! This blog entry contains a look at some of these latest features at TIWWA that you don't want to miss! #1 Customise your profile! Your profile at TIWWA is a special place all about you, and the great news is that it is now customisable if you have made more than 10 posts! Upload or link to any image to give
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Win a signed photograph of Sarah-Jane Redmond with TIWWA!

Ladies and gentlemen, As you know, TIWWA has recently introduced a new Skype discussion group to allow members to come together in real-time to chat with each other about our beloved show. Our next meet will take place of Saturday 17th April 8:00pm GMT and all are welcome to take part. As our gathering focusses on Chris Carter's sublime creation, Lucy Butler, we dipped into her mythology to create a bit of fun that will allow Millennium fans to have the chance to win a gorgeous signed pho
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Lance Henriksen's 70th - a sincere Thank You to all who helped!

Once again (following the recent Easter activities), TIWWA's special team of community volunteers, our honourable TIWWA Blackcoats, have served us proud! The recent celebration of Lance Henriksen's 70th birthday was superb and I cannot thank the Blackcoats enough. Similarly, I want to thank everyone who took part, contributed content and helped to publicise the events on their websites including the Millennium Facebook Group, websites in the X-Files community and of course Frank Spotnitz's B
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TIWWA Is Pleased to announce our competition winners!

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pride and pleasure that two lucky winners have been selected from all those who took part in the Easter competitions. I am delighted to announce that the winner of the Millennium Trivia Pursuit Quiz 2010 is Coughcool and the winner of The Launderama of The Soul 2010 is Walkabout. Both these names were chosen at random from the many entries we received and I am sure you will join me in congratulating them. To claim your brand spanking new DVD prizes simp
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All New Lance Henriksen Magic - Coming Soon From The Team Behind Tiwwa!

As some of you may know, I took over Lance Henriksen Magic a few years back after the original creator suddenly removed the site. The site has been in need of a major overhaul for quite some time, although some improvements have been made and news about Lance Henriksen continues to be posted. I'm very pleased to confirm that an overhaul of Lance Henriksen Magic is now currently under way, new financial investment will bring a brand-new modern and easy to use social website but better still, I
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Two new Elders join the TIWWA Staff Team

It is with great pleasure that I extend both congratulations and a warm welcome to two respected TIWWA members Richard and Laura, who as of today have made the transition from Candidate to the the Elder Staff Team. WaveCrest and SpooktalkGiGi, Richard and Laura will this weekend be recovering from their traditional blood letting riverside ceremonies (you should have seen the Health and Safety Risk Assessment forms we had to complete) that take place in a secret location near Bucksnort, f
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Christmas arrives early at This is who we are!

It's festive news for Millennium fans, as the first two of our planned Christmas themes are now available! Simply select from the skin/theme drop down menu at the bottom left of your screen... Christmas Noel (current default skin) Christmas Noel is a beautiful holiday skin presenting Mr. and Ms. Frosty in beautiful shades of red and green with silver and gold accents. This skin was enhanced even more this year with MANY new additions in hand made graphics and MANY new custom edits to m
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Security update information and general tips

Dear TIWWA members and visitors,  Nothing to be alarmed about, but I would like to extend apologies for any inconvenience you may have experienced with slow responses or speed with the website in the last few days.  Unfortunately we have intermittently been receiving a high amount of illegitimate web traffic, effectively hammering away at the server in what appears to be a crude attempt to knock our server or website offline.  As you may know such is the nature of DDoS or 'Distrib
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Updated Privacy and Community Guidelines

Unless you've been living under a rock, on Mars or have possibly been abducted by The Polaroid Stalker, you will have no doubt heard about changes to Privacy and Data Protection in Europe called General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR for short). The legislation in reality effects and improves the rights of everyone. As you would expect, we have always respected your privacy and the processing of your personal data/information, and we will continue to do so.  Our community software
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Recent Server Performance Issues - Seemingly Resolved

The Elder Staff Team including myself have been very concerned about a recent bout of server sluggishness that you may have also noticed. For example, messages taking a while to post or edit, new topics taking a while before they load into your browser etc. For this I apologise, it has been very frustrating especially when you have a lot to do on TIWWA. We have been working with our web host to try and track down the issue and today the root cause has apparently been identified and addressed.
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The all new Lance Henriksen Magic - now open!

Following a few months of hard work and some very late nights during which time I've been a bit of a recluse at TIWWA, and as previously mentioned in our staff blog, I'm pleased to announce that the newly overhauled Lance Henriksen Magic is now officially open, and which will make it all the more enjoyable and fun to take an interest in the career of the enigmatic Lance Henriksen. I'm thrilled to say that Lance Henriksen Magic will now be brought to you with the kind assistance of Mark Hayde
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Halloween 2010

We hope you enjoyed Halloween and our special seasonal theme will remain the default until 2nd November. Afterwards it will remain available to choose from the skin/theme drop-down list/changer at the bottom of the page. Thank you for your comments and feedback! [clear=left][/clear]
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Midnight of the Century

We're very pleased to announce that our Christmas themes are back at TIWWA for the rest of 2011! You can now find a range of seasonally themed skins that are all available from the Change Theme menu (at the bottom left of most pages). Merry Christmas to everyone at TIWWA, thank you all for continuing to make this the best Millennium community online for another year!
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Stability update applied 03.09.15

IPS Community Suite 4.0.13 Released 08/31/2015 Key Changes This release primarily focuses on stability with many bug fixes. In addition to dozens of fixes, important items include: When unflagging a member as a spammer, if any tasks are still queued to delete or hide the member's content the tasks will be cancelled.  This is useful if you flag a user as a spammer and then immediately change your mind and unflag the member. NO_STEP issue during upgrade should now be resolved Lists were not rebuil
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TIWWA Software Upgrade - Sunday Nov 15th

I've just upgraded the TIWWA software suite. As with any big update, if you are visiting soon after the upgrade, I strongly recommend that you do a hard refresh to make sure your browser loads the updated versions of the files and isn't using a mix of new and cached old ones which can cause odd things to happen to your experience of our site(!). To do this in Windows, simply hold down the CTRL key and then just press F5 then let go, and it will force your browser to reload all files on th
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The Leaderboard - Coming to TIWWA December 2016

In addition to many small bug fixes, this next release includes: For Admins - Accounts flagged as spammers are now more visibly different on the member list in AdminCP The Password form helper can now show a "strength" meter, and set a minimum strength required. Added quite a few new embed providers codepen.io coub.com deviantart.com docs.com funnyordie.com gettyimages.com iFixit.com
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Wish all of our members and visitors a Merry Christmas

As we approach the end of 2016, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our amazing members, old friends and guest visitors a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. To mark the Yuletide occasion, This Is Who We Are has once again been festively decorated with a choice of two themes, Christmas Noel and White Christmas, created by Sherri at IBTheme. For those who prefer the usual default TIWWA Theme, you can select this or any of the other themes from the Theme selector men
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Coming soon to TIWWA

Some information for those interested about our forthcoming software update, I've highlighted most relevant in bold... Key Changes In addition to many small bug fixes, this release includes: Performance improvements in: profile view, sitemap generator, posting replies, and Activity Streams More efficient license key checking to keep the keys from being checked too often which can slow the site down Admins - There is now a column in tasks view to show the last time
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In development - Millennium Vista Sidebar Gadget Pt.2

Good news, I had chance to work on the idea of a Millennium style countdown gadget for Windows Vista (see my previous post). I'm really excited about this, because a) I think the idea is really cool and b) I got it to work without too many problems along the way. Below is a screen shot of my desktop with the results so far: As you can see (ignoring my busy background wallpaper and other icons), the gadget is listed in the gadget box with a brief description, but more importantly over t
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Member Reputation

By now, our regular members will have gotten used to the majority of our new features on this latest release of our community software. This blog entry is the first in a series of such entries designed to identify, highlight and advise on some of the new features and changes at TIWWA in our forums, gallery and blogs, some of which you may not to be sure how to use or may have missed. If you have a suggestion on an aspect of TIWWA that you would like to see covered here, please let me know and
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Radio TIWWA

Radio TIWWA returns with a fantastic new audio player to help celebrate TIWWA's 7th anniversary! Radio TIWWA is loaded with Millennium's incidental music courtesy of Grooveshark.com, so why not keep this blog page open in one of your browser tabs or windows whilst you surf around and listen to your favourite Millennium tracks as you go! My special thanks to Mark (ethsnafu) for his wonderful apocalyptic Radio TIWWA artwork! [clear=left][/clear]
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Personalise your Profile and Twitter integration coming soon!

Besides the usual stats and figures, members at This is who we are can upload a personal photo and enable the option for friends to leave comments and list recent visitors on their profiles. This made your profile pages a little more personal and encouraged repeat visits. With the forthcoming enhanced status updates feature in the next revision of our board's software, the profile page is becoming increasingly like a little user portal. With that in mind, the designers have extended the perso
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