You know, that's a great idea, Bleet. And perhaps a suggestion that parents send the kiddies off to granny's so said wee ones don't get snarked at for interrupting, or come to believe that mummy and daddy have gone completely looney as they randomly bust out into minutes long laugh attacks.

So as a gesture of civil disobedience we should all use them as much as possible or put them in our sigs or something.

Um... fun idea, already been scrapped by one of the mods (Mickey, I think) when one of the teens decided to taunt Big Brother on a thread. You're a day late and a dollar short, darling.

Can we at least continue to manipulate events from the shadows if we promise to let you think you're still in control??

Please?

Ok, so I will let the Black Council know...

Fred lives... we'll keep him in the basement near the gerbil wheel to keep the site running.

Priscellie lives... we need a face on the puppet regime, and her's is pretty.

Mickey and Ashton - speak now or your lives are forfeit... what can you offer the Black Council that will make it worth our while to let you live?? hmmmm??? *eyebrow*

ok, keep me posted. Christmas is coming you know...

There's definitely been an increase in clicks (and thus cash) over the last few days -- significantly so.  Thanks guys, and keep it up--more cash on the way in means that our options down the road continue to improve (and, frankly, makes it more worth my time to do such things).

Inspired by this, I've gotten a little more into the meat of how things are running on the server, and I've got some on-server monitoring of the database's "stats" so I can see if that's the culprit, as well as trying my hand at a little mysql server tuning.  We'll see how that fares!

Yay!  Keep up the good work, Fred, and like Helen said, if there's anything else we can do to support you guys and the site, just let us know!

You've got a great voice. Not nearly so scary sounding as your picture makes you look, Fred! 

I really like this guy... especially what he said about persistence and taking the "NO" Flipping it, and turning it ON!

- Though it break my heart, telling Murphy that my source of information is WZRD Radio is now a no-go.


If Jim doesn't swipe that one and actually use it, he's missing out! That's freaking hilarious!