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10-11-2007

Well folks, this is my last week as a member of the staff on theBubbler. Friday is my last day at theBubbler's parent company, OnYourMark, LLC.

Any support requests that you would normally send to me should go to the Contact Us form (currently here: Contact Us) as I will no longer be able to help you. Any other contact should be directed through my personal website: Crystal Odenkirk's Website, as I will probably not be back here very often.

Bye!

-Crys

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09-27-2006

Here's what's in the works on the site right now:

* <b>The Great Scammer Purge</b> - I'm in the middle of weeding out fraudulent users who have been banned under a different user name, and reviewing the actions and posting locations for questionable users. It's a delicate operation because I don't want to accidentally ban, say, a soldier who's stationed in Germany and uses the site to keep in touch with family, or any of GE's employees in India who are coming to Wisconsin for training and would like to use the site as a resource while they're planning their move here, or people in the Ivory Coast or in England who might want to peruse our geneology resources. That said, most of our scammers and spammers have IPs in India, Cote d'Ivoire, England and Germany. If you're an active user in one of those locations and you're not trying to solicit information from our other users, you're not in danger of being added to that list (unless you're on a shared computer and someone else is using it for scamming). Inactive users from those locations (who haven't even logged in for months or more), will probably be deleted and banned. The ban will be lifted on a case by case basis at my and/or Keith's discretion.

*<b>Forum software</b> - Our forums software is old and has nearly reached its maximum capacity for useage. This upgrade was much lower on the list, but since we're reaching the upper limit on the software, I'm moving it up.

*<b>Admins</b> - There are some improvements in the works for the Administration of the site. You may not see the admin improvements, but it will probably mean that you will see more of the admins because it won't take as long to do the regular maintenance that keeps the site running.

*<b>Front Page Summary</b> - Keep an eye on the front page of the site. We're planning on changing the information that shows up on the front page to include a summary of all the most recent activity across the entire site.

*<b>Fall theme</b> - Wasn't it just spring? Where did the summer go? The leaves are falling -- time for some color and photo changes in the theme!

*<b>Farther Goals</b> - Among other long term improvements are an overhaul of the journals to make them more usable and user-friendly, changes to the navigation, some bug fixes that were caused when we changed something else (like the notification of new messages at the top of your Account page) and a user feedback system for the classifieds.

08-29-2006

I love listening to Joy Cardin in the morning. She had Robert Gerald Lorge, a Republican candidate for Senate, on the show this morning. He went on at some length about how much he believes in equal rights and treating people fairly and she asked the obvious question the caller had been leading to: Do you support the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and non-married legally-sanctioned relationships? He hemmed and hawed and eventually got around to yes, he does support it. I love the way she asks pointed questions to force people to expose their own hypocrisy.

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08-24-2006

I thought a number of you might be interested in this story:

<i>"In an effort to crack down on under-reporting by individuals and businesses that sell goods online, an IRS official said the tax agency is discussing creating new tax reporting requirements. The review of tax policy was first reported on Tuesday by the tax-law trade publication Tax Notes.

While no details were given, the new reporting requirements could mean big changes for stand-alone Web retailers as well as individuals selling family heirlooms through popular online auction sites such as eBay Inc."</i>

http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/23/pf/taxes/online_taxes/index.htm

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08-16-2006

<i>PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Our solar system would have 12 planets instead of nine under a proposed "Big Bang" expansion by leading astronomers, changing what billions of schoolchildren are taught about their corner of the cosmos.</i>

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/16/new.planets.ap/index.html

I thought this was pretty cool. I have pretty much given up hope that we'll see interplanetary travel in my lifetime, but hey, defining what is a planet is a good start!

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