Patrick

Welcome.

karatekid, please check your private messages. About the award, it was not just for one article, although that it how it turned out. If someone would have written two articles, that would have boded well for them. Thanks.

Congrats to karatekid1975! She is the winner of the KarateForums.com Writing Contest. Once again, thank you to everyone who took the time to enter.

The contest has come to a close. I will be reviewing the entries and I will announce the winner when I have decided. Thank you to those who entered.

This really isn't the type of thing that we want to have around here. Thank you.

Happy belated Thanksgiving everyone.

As far as the site goes, we were fine up until when I left on the morning of the 27th and we are fine now, on the evening of the 30th. So, between that, I wasn't around.

I appreciate that, Laurie. This isn't saying you can't write more, it is just to have one (somewhat) concrete day and then you can pop in another article when you want. Looking forward to getting started. I have just one more thing that I need, but I set up a bunch of things last night, so I am basically ready (except for the one thing) on my end. So, maybe we'll just go with 3, if no one else steps forward.

So, no one else then? Really, it isn't a hard thing to do. And I'd love to have a couple more. Thanks.

I just wanted to bring this up again, as we need two more to get this rolling. Thanks.

Indeed.

This is one of the low quality topics. Oh well. As far as who started the most topics: http://www.karateforums.com/statistics.php 1 Patrick 335 2 KickChick 150 3 SaiFightsMS 124 4 MuayTB1 119 5 Eye of the Tiger 99 6 koreantiger81 92 7 Jack 87 8 moobrack 76 9 TKD_McGee 73 10 Angus 71

I appreciate the thought.

I've used a digital camera a couple of times, but the batteries were rechargable.

Thanks.

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.