State of the Fora address: 7/15/05

We're almost to the place where we were before the ezBoard attacks as far as daily posts go. You're doing good, guys. We've also got a bunch of old posters back, and this is also very happy. We have a few new regulars, which is good.

Basically we just need to keep on keepin' on and we'll be back where we were in no time. At the height of the Fora, we got about 200 posts a day. Right before the ezBoard attacks, we got about 100 a day. We're averaging about 50 right now, which isn't bad at all considering all that we've been through.

There was some downtime for the Fora yesterday... it was beyond my control but true to their reputation, Invision kept everything running smoothly. I've been led to believe that even those few hours of downtime is extremely rare for them; let's hope this continues to be the case.

Also, I'm looking for some additional blog authors. You have to register an account with blogger.com, and I have to add you here. Leave a comment here if you're interested. Basically, I'll take anyone with good grammar, has interesting things to say about a variety of issues, and who can blog at least four times a week. Bonus points if you comment on other blogs and leave foraaugusta.com as your personal URL.

That's all, guys.

Pax Ex,
-Stu

Even conservative Republicans support medical marijuana.

Stephen Gordon, one of the higher-ups in the Libertarian Party, posts here on the Liberty For Sale blog about how he filled in as a talk radio commentator in one of the most conservative states in the Union. One of the many topics that he and his co-host came up with was medical marijuana-and their callers kept ringing in about that issue, even after they had moved on.

I was surprised to see so much support for this issue... is it just me, or have the Libertarians been right all along about the popularity of their stance on the War on Drugs?

Too many cooks in the kitchen.

My girlfriend and I aren't engaged yet, but we're already planning our wedding. Only problem with this is that everyone seems to think we need advice. We even CHANGED THE DATE OF THE WEDDING so that nobody'd be able to make it but our immediate nuclear families and one or two friends.

Well, some slightly more distant relations have basically just invited themselves to this shindig. Not only that, but they're trying to tell us about how we need to invite a whole bunch of people "or else their feelings will get hurt". I couldn't care less-it's not their wedding, and they're not even supposed to BE there. I'd tell them off right now if it was just me making the decisions.

I know this is supposed to be a semi-professional blog, but eh. I suppose this is a vaguely libertarian dispute... in the sense that I want outside interference to depart from my life, and I want to be able to decide my own fate (or in this case, we want to be able to decide our own fate).

Two weeks.

It's July 12... on July 26 LaRissa comes home from Arizona.

I can't wait. :D