Patrick

I just thought that I would mention that we have passed the 5,000 topic (thread) mark.

I am moving the website from the http://www.karateforums.com/forums URL to http://www.karateforums.com. This has a handful of benefits and needs to be done. There may be dead links... and dead images around, but we will get them all fixed. If you see anything that isn't obvious, or isn't fixed in a few days, please use this thread to report it. Thank you.

(Yeah, I am posting this a day early, because I am not sure if I will have the chance tomorrow. ) November 21, 2002 marks two important events. KarateForums.com is exactly 18 months old - 1 1/2 years ago exactly, I launched this website. Patrick O'Keefe (me ) is exactly 18 years old - 18 years ago exactly, my parents launched me. So, there you have it. 18 months online. 18 years on Earth.

If you would like to talk sports in a more sports enviroment (you can talk about it here, too of course), you may want to check out http://www.sportsforums.net - which is a "sister" site of KarateForums.com.

For the record, no one has to start writing until we actually get 5 people and I tell you to go. You can write whenever you want though.

Great. Sunday, Tuesday and Friday gone. 2 more needed.

Yeah, that's great. For a moment, I thought you had gotten a perm. As in a hair treatment. Then I read the whole thing. Saturday and Tuesday taken. So... need 3 more people to step up. Thanks.

Also, if anyone is so inclined, we'd be willing to publish Martial Art walkthroughs here, in our articles section, which is hopefully soon to launch. Thanks.

Hey, We'd like to get at least 5 days covered. Today I spent a few hours and got a new frontpage all setup and ready to accomodate articles. So, basically, I'm ready. As soon as we can get at least 5 days covered, we'll launch. Karatekid, as I said, that'd be great. We'd love to have you write as much as you want, for the sake of the organization, please pick a day (just not Saturday ) when you get a chance. Thanks guys.

Welcome.

lol, thats fine.

First of all - thank you to all of the people that nominated and voted, the process doesn't succeed without you. Also, a big thanks to LeaF for helping to inspire and process some of this. Everyone that was nominated should be proud. Being nominated is a great accomplishment. Congratulations to you. Now, for our winners: http://www.karateforums.com/forums/awards.php Member of the Year: Kensai Staff Member of the Year: KickChick Funniest Member of the Year: monkeygirl Thread of the Year: Respecting Younger Instructors - Started by monkeygirl Funniest Thread of the Year: MA Goofs & Blunders - Started by KickChick Congratulations to our winners.

That'd be great. As I said, if we could get one person on each day of the week that would allow for someone to maybe miss their turn once or twice a week, so this is a commitment, but it isn't life and death, if we can get 7 concrete people... it'll work nicely. Pick a day.

I am going to make it visible myself instead of letting it do it on its own. Lets say a few hours. Gonna get a few things ready on my end. Thanks.

Hey, that is a good idea, Kicker. If we had one person take on a day (or maybe 2 per day, depending on the popularity of it), that would work great. If we had one person assigned to each day, it would guarentee a bunch of articles, because then there will be the editorials and other articles that are submitted as well. So, we'll have more than 7 pieces a week. I'd have no problem launching the articles section now, if we could get a person each day. Good idea, Kicker.

Basically, you would find news, for instance: http://news.google.com/news?q=Martial+Arts&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d Tons of stuff. New stuff every day. You would then make your own write up about the news, as we cannot copy other news sources (of course). This would have to be at least 400 words (short). I plan to launch the articles section soon and if we had one person submit one news article every day (once its launched), we'd be doing great. It doesn't take that long to write a news article, as you probably know. At least 400 words (more if you can), use Google news to find the latest MA news, choose something, write and submit. I just wanted to get this idea out there, because if people are willing to do this, we can launch the Articles section sooner (and not wait for the 10-12 articles I had initally called for).

I need to figure out what I want for my 18th birthday, first. (11/21) I don't even have any ideas.

Yeah, I am not even sure of the time that the results will come out. I need to get setup. Thanks.

Just a couple more days left. Get those votes in.

I don't have a cell phone either or a phone actually (besides the one family one). And I have a computer that doesn't work very well so I am on the laptop, which works a lot better. My parents are going to buy a new computer soon though. Maybe one day though.

Hey! Lets keep getting those articles in. Even if we end up using this feature in some other way, we'll still use the articles and this contest is official!

Ok, guys... we are over half way through. If you haven't voted, better get them in. By the way: Congratulations to all of our nominees. Being a nominee is an honor in itself and one worthy of commendation.

Can't afford it.

Welcome back.

I just wanted to make it clear to those people that nominated, that it doesn't count as a vote and that you now must go vote. The nomination process was to decide who would be on the ballot, and now it is time to vote. I also hope that all of you US based citizens are out there and taking advantage of your right to vote on election day. Thanks.