How are the big three doing? Alive again yet?

[edcentric]

Prime, did you get any work space back yet, or is it still a disaster?

Shorty, did Trini dig you out from all of the trash and see that you ate a real meal?

MM, Are you getting any REAL work done?

You guys have done a great job. I know that you are still working and there will be many more tweeks.
Thanks a lot. I just wanted to yank your chains a bit.

[primesuspect]

lol! Office is somewhat cleaned up, although shorty, mm, and td_isles NEEDED a dev box set up yesterday. I hastily threw together some random parts, and came up with this:

Abit BP-6 (remember those?)
64MB of ram (1x32mb and 2x16mb !!)
DUAL celeron 500s (w00t!)
4gb ATA/33 HD

All this in a massive full-tower server case that used to house SCSI drive racks. It's a bit....overkill for what's in it, but it was all I had on short notice :)

So, it was clean after the server got racked at the datacenter, but now it's a mess again :(

[Shorty]

edcentric said
Shorty, did Trini dig you out from all of the trash and see that you ate a real meal?

Hey Ed :D

Yeah, she did kinda nudge me about getting some sleep and eating a little better than takeaway pizza & chinese ;) Thankfully, she is a fantastic cook and very supportive :D

There is still quite a bit of work to do (frontpage, final design adjustments and other bits) but I have been able to take my foot off the pedal a little.. to do some other stuff :)

[MediaMan]

The front page is like a child's room after a birthday party. There are bits and pieces of really fun stuff....ALL OVER THE DAMN PLACE! lol.

There was one night where my brain woke me up about 3:30-4AM with a "had to do" task. I could not get back to sleep until I got up, turned on the computer, logged in...to find that I couldn't do anything.

It was just one of those things I had to convince my brain about.

In real life I'm in production on two infomercials, planning stages of a third and working on 5 different commercials ranging from easy to "how the hell am I going to do that?"

The mood swings amongst the "big three" will be fun to look back on. We are in various stages of anxiety to get the front page on-line. We feel very responsible to provide you guys with a community. Some minutes...we are feeling like we are on the verge of success...the next...looking for a bridge or rooftop to jump from.

When we say that we are getting an overwhelming and incredible amount of effort from our staff and the coders behind the scenes...we are not lying.

I'm rather useless at the moment as the front page is in the hands of the coders. I can't do much except pace, worry, freak out, encourage, shove money at them, scream, plead, shout, go foetal, and, above all, thank them.

As a marketer there is a momentum I want to ride. The longer I feel I wait...the more nervous I get about missing that momentum. LOL.

In the big picture Icrontic was way down below 100,000 on Alexa...in three months I had it back up to 43,000 surpassing many sites. I did it before...I'll do it again and this time...I'm not alone. :) Prime and Shorty are going to be adding content to the front page as well. We'll zoom up in a matter of months. I have September as a target now to get to 30,000 on Alexa.

Why? Athlon 64 of course. I want to prove to my AMD contact that we are THE premier site. With you guys here...we will be.

[edcentric]

Glad to hear from you guys. I hope that you are finally getting to take a little time off. Thanks for the great work. And for the stuff yet to come.
ed

[Gargoyle]

MediaMan said

Why? Athlon 64 of course. I want to prove to my AMD contact that we are THE premier site. With you guys here...we will be.

Inspiring stuff! :cheers:

Just let us know if there's anything we can do to help!

And thanks again to everyone for all their hard work!

[Thrax]

<i>[: Thrax enables the pro-AMD propaganda engine, something he has not done since the hey-day of Icrontic :]</i>