Hmmm... I had new news for this month but then the server died and I continued to update on the progress to fix it but apparently, I never saved so the May news is a little behind. Earlier this month, the server died because of Kernel Panic. I tried a few things but no luck. Looked like a hardware failure. Ordered a new machine and it took around two weeks to arrive. Spent the last three or 4 days trying to set it up but apparently using vim instead of the classic editor doesn't copy/paste like it use to and after upgrading all slack packages, networking fails to load.
And I remember why I don't use mySQL more on the site. Setting it up is a pain in the neck. It took me almost an entire day to get a basic single table database for Johnny Dressup working.
One good thing to come from the upgrade that I was made aware a new version of Slackware was released earlier this year so the DOH! Network is running on the latest build.