The Girl Geek Dinner site is down!

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I've been in and fixed things, should be back up by the morning - problems with the DNS thang!
In the meantime it can be accessed directly here: www.freewebs.com/girlgeekdinners

What a thing to happen a week before an event. I need a secretary, or another 8 hours in a day.

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