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Day 2. What the deuce is going on? I hear a lot of complaining coming out of the tech “dungeon” about no sleep, eating junk food day and night and persistent finger cramp syndrome? I hate to bring this up, but What Would Steven Seagal Do? But jokng aside the launch went as smooth as we could have hoped for. We had a few minor complaints (mostly internet explorer based) but we are working on them for now and checking the stats to see how organically the site grows…by the way did anyone pick up the newspaper today?  I think we have some classified ads in it!

Seriously, who has time for these blog things? We’ve just been up for like the last three days straight. Hair ridiculously nappy eyes are pretty much beyond bloodshot and baggy. A collection of snack containers piling up around the desks.

The saddest thing about this all? I seem to be loving it. Pretty sad, huh. I guess this is true geekdom.

Anyway, in less than 24 hours the real fun begins.

The website has come a long way since it’s inception on the 1st of October, 2007. Almost two solid months of hardwork and limited sleep so that we are somewhat prepared for the tidal wave of users that are fast approaching. We’re a few days away from launch, the emails are pouring in, the wait list is growing, and people are already blogging about this. It’s hard to believe that after 8 weeks of pretty much zero life, and staring at the computer every waking minute that we’re actually about to open this all up to the public. But getting this out there has been what it’s all about, and we seriously can’t wait to show you what we got behind the curtain. It’s still in beta while we work out the kinks, but we think you’ll like what you see so far.

Thanks to everyone who’s been part of our closed beta phase and to our amazing testers. And huge thanks to all those bloggers and other crazy fans who have encouraged us before we even launched.
What you’ll be seeing next week on the 21st is something we’re really proud of. It’s also really just the start of what’s to come. We seriously have a bazillion things in mind and we’re dying to get to them.

But enough about this I still have some work to do before the launch.

It is coming…

~ by Ken Shipley