Well its been a while since I have posted anything on here. I know I have a lot of people watching me now, and a lot asking for certain files for my deviations that DA somehow lost. I have been trying to find those files people, but I have rather large hard drives to look through. Not only that, but my wonderful system decided to die. So I built a new one in no time, and i'm using a nice dual core cpu now. So now I have a work/gaming system, something of which I didn't have before. Everything was going good and then last week my hard drive died (just my luck). I got two Seagate 320gb SATAII drives on order to put into raid when I get them. Now i'll be able to ditch the old IDE drives, and use drives that are a lot faster and quieter. Windows wouldn't show the drive in the OS, but I knew it was hooked up. I thought I lost all my web/graphic design work from 4+ years ago to now. Everything I have ever done was on that drive, even the very first one. I have no idea why I keep everything like that, but I just do. What I needed was a NAS system to sit on my network that I could put all of my work on without having to worry about drive failure. I know that the NAS drives will fail sometime, but not as soon as drives used in a system like mine thats almost in use, and turned on 24/7. So D-Link sent me a new NAS system to review and put on my Hardware Review site. Now how lucky is that? So now I have everything offloaded to the NAS system while i'm waiting for my new drives to get here from Seagate. Right now i'm using a very old IDE drive around 10GB. It sucks, but its only for a week or so. The only thing I hate is having to reinstall every damn program I had on here. I had way too many programs since I do a little of everything.

Well my site Altgamer.org is doing very well now. We started to make some money off of the ads on the site finally. Its not much right now, but it is something, better than nothing, and it does pay for the server bills as of right now. Altgamer is coming up on its 1st birthday in the next couple of months. I know a lot of people have told me that the site design looks great already and I shouldn't mess with it, but i'm going to. So for the 1st birthday i'm going to rollout a very new design, but it will still look somewhat like the current design on the site. I'm just going to change things up a bit, make it wider, make somethings more simple, and add a lot more features for the site and the forum. We are trying to get a lot of manufacturers join in for the birthday bash and donate some gear that we can give away to our readers. Everyone likes free computer gear, don't they? Well we do already have some on board at this moment, but i'm not saying who just yet. We did get a new forum system for the site and now it looks like the stock skin that comes with it. It sucks and I want to change it, but I don't really want to mess with vBulletin at this time. If someone out there would like to help me develop a skin for the Altgamer Forum, please send me a message and we can work something out. I'm asking this cause I have never messed with this forum system before, and I have a lot on my plate right now to do.