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If you are a subscriber you have no doubt become aware of the lack of posts of late. The main reason for this was a trial period that I undertook with Gizmodo. I chose to nip that in the bud as there are simply too many external pressures to contend with. What that means is that I will be able to write much more regularly both here and at Uberreview. Look forward to lots of regular posts.

To cope with the ever present SPAM that most blogs are inundated with, one must be a registered member in order to make unapproved comments. When this site is extended to include a forum (which will be after we get a few members) then you will be able to post in the forum with the same membership.  Initially, I had disabled anonymous commenting, but I feel that I am now getting on top of the back end of the site and able to screen anonymous comments.  They will take a while to get up, as I do not check all that often.  If you want your comments to go up without approval, sign up.

It takes a few seconds to sign up. You do need to give a valid email address as your address will be validated. Don't worry, we are not going to flood your inboxes with SPAM. You won't hear from Geekinetic unless there is some super-important site news, you subscribe to a thread or someone comments on the article that you have commented on. If you use GMail, it is very easy to set up a filter that includes our site, which will make it very easy to keep your inbox clean and tidy. I will post a How To document for those that don't know sometime in the future.

All I ask is that the comments stay relatively clean and leave the SPAM at the door. A little bit of flaming is acceptable, but don't let it get personal and don't talk about anybody's mother. Offensive language does not bother me in the slightest and I am assuming that most of our readers are not going to be worried about it, but there is no need to test out people's tolerance level for filth. Keep it reasonably clean and everyone will be happy. Disagreement is invited and even encouraged.

It has been a crazy few days in the Magor household.  My two-year-old became quite sick and required almost constant attention.  Other than that, I have also been finishing up some school work for the upcoming year.  To cut a long story short, I have not had time to post.  But don't worry there is plenty that will be going on in the next few days.  On my TO DO list is a pile of stuff that will involve me getting down and dirty with some of the site code.  I really hate doing it, but I want to make the posting process as easy as possible.  This is because, somewhere down the line, I plan to hire someone on a part time basis, but before that can happen I need to get the page views up and take care of the commercial end of the site.

Most of the changes that I make will not require a site shutdown.  You will still be able to get on here, but it might load a little funny from time to time.  Hit F5 and hold your breath, it should work.

Changes that are coming soon...

• A new typeface, I have a couple of ideas for this.  The goal is ease of reading, but I also want a font that is a little more compact.
• Better path names, you may have noticed that the post URLs look like this http://geekinetic.com/node/73.  I will be dealing with that little issue shortly.
• Gallery 2.0 support.  This one is tricky and might take some time.  I really need to sit down for about two or three hours and figure my way around the back end of this.  Drupal integration is not the strong point.  If it does necessitate a complete G2 reinstall, it might be better left for Golden Week.
• An Amazon shop for me to whore my filthy wares and hopefully get this site in the black.
  

There are tons of other things that are being done that I see but you won't.  All the changes are likely to hold up posting a little further, but there will be some stuff coming.  Rather than my usual three or four posts per day, you can expect to see two.