Well those 9 months went very fast and here we are its all over now.  :)  I have a beautrful baby girl and I couldn't be prouder!  She was born on Tuesday and now that its over you will see a few changes coming to MudDomain!  More to come...

Wow what should have been a few hours of downtime turned into over a week.  Guess thats what happens when you plane major site updates in the middle of flu season. We are now running the newest version of elgg (the software powerin this site) which gives us added stability, features,and alot of bug fxes.  With the upgrade i'm sure some of my custom additions have been broken.  I've not found any errors yet if you do let me know.  I will be turning on some of the new features such as bookmarks over the next few days.

 

Thanks Again!

Wow... been awhile since I posted here.  Who would have known that buying a house and the needed to learn how to fix things around the house would take up so much time :) and put on top of that it being Christmas which is happens to coincide with the busy season where I work (thank God its not retail though :) ) and there you go no time to update this site or other similar sites I run.  But, there is good news! Elgg, the open source project that this site is based on has just released another package and this being the package I was waiting on before I rolled the updates to the site.  I'm hoping to update the site on Tuesday at that time I will take the site out of beta mode and all users to sign up with out the need for an invite.  Unless you guys prefer it this way and like the more closed community?  If that is the case I will rework the invite system, but we will see.

Finally,  I'm done moving and am begining to get settled in my new house.  After a few days of no Internet I'm back online and ready to push out some site updates.  Expect to see them with in the week.  I'm sure you'll be happy with some of the changes, bugfixes, new features, and cosmetic changes to come in this release.

 

Sorry for the recent lack of updates to the site.  I had to freeze the site as a new version of the software was being released and I didn't want to continue to make changes that would make an upgrade more difficult.  I will be updating the site very soon to a new stable release once I have all of our enhancements added back in so be watching for that.  Other than that not much going on our site stats continue to grow with more people visting the site each day.  Continue to invite you friends and remember you have unlimited invites under you "myFriends" link on the toolbar.

 

Thanks

My wife, Danielle, and I went to the Doctors the other day and heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time so I guess its offical now.  The due date is May 6th which is 2 days before Danielle's.  Needless to say we are excited and of course i've begun that freaking out stage which starts with the fact that our 1 bedroom apartment is suddenly way to small

I just thought I'd post somthing since I've sat here for aproximently 12 hours, watching people show up and leave, has soon has they figure out nothing's new.

Well, you there! read this, its new! You showed up at the right time.... Finaly. 

Yup, kind of another spam blog post..... 

Well my employer finally convinced me that I need to take some certificaion exams so I went today and took(and passed) the CompTIA A+ IT Tech. exam.  CompTIA recently released their new exams and this one was very easy so anyone worrying about taking it ... don't.

 

I like numbers and statistics which is why I like to post these results.  Sorry if they bore anyone.  For the month of September, our very first month as a Social Network, we had a total of 130,000 hits from 628 unique visitors

Browsers Grabber Hits Percent   Firefox No 61840 49.6 %   Opera No 28202 22.6 %   MS Internet Explorer No 27104 21.7 %   Mozilla No 4242 3.4 %   Unknown ? 2087 1.6 %   Links No 629 0.5 %   Safari No 240 0.1 %   Netscape No 72 0 %   Epiphany No 56 0 %   BonEcho (Firefox 2.0 development) No 47 0 %   Others   70 0 %

I'm pretty young, young enough to still be in school, and at school I'm pretty antisocial because no one shares any similar interest. The only time I really get to talk to people is when I'm online, and lately in the past couple of years I've been having some troubles with depression and other things that at least  'might' be caused by me not social at school. And the affect of not feeling well mentaly is me not doing too well at school, thus causing me to be grounded from my computer, and feeding into my problems of not socializing enough.

The whole concept of it really makes my stomach turn, the vicious cycle of feeling like crap because I feel like crap. Its got to be one of the worst things thats happened to me.

Anyone else ever been hurt from one of the self feeding vicious cycles found in the modern world? Besides that of people 'sharing' software and music, causing them to raise prices, and thus creating a higher need of people 'sharing' the endless supply of software/music....That of course I'm sure has affected just about everyone with a computer and or internet connection; thats got to be one of the worst public problems.

 This is more of a random rant to at least give me one blog post.