The Shrine

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Okay, we're back. I got r00t on this b0x3n, so if you need an e-mail box or something neat like that, let me know.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>good job. I had plenty of things to post earlier, and now I've forgotten them all :P</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Feels good to be back. While I was gone I discovered some new websites which I would have never have found if the Shrine had never gone down though =P</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Like what?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.ffonline.com">Final Fantasy Online</a>

FFonline.com, it's an awesome looking site with tons of stuff on it.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Chrono Cross wasn't even the top 5? Blah!</div>

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Do you have a way to mass email everyone that is registered? ie, email everyone and let them know we're back?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Yes, I could, but I already spammed everybody's ICQ/AIM/MSN.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>So what happened?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Email is better. Everyone uses an email address, not everyone uses ICQ, IM or MSN. Plus, with IM, you can only message someone if they're currently online.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Only if you use CrapOL's IM. ICQ is far superior.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Nobody I know uses ICQ. Everybody I know uses IM.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I agree with Sine, ICQ is the best, besides how often do people check E-mail nowadays? It's not exactly 1995 or 96 anymore.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I check my e-mail everyday. It was just a matter of whether I should spam people or not. I guess I'll do something tonight.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I check my email everyday... like most people.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Then again, you're talking about most people you know, I'm talking about normal people.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That was meant as an insult, but the funny thing is, yeah, CS and physics people aren't normal. Then again, plenty of my friends who aren't technicaly savy who check their mail daily.</div>

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Exactly. I prefer ICQ but no one uses it anymore, it seems.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>there was a time when I only used ICQ and refused to use AIM...but then I found it was damaging socially so I decided to give in</div>

<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>Message Board scripts take up a lot of cpu power(well compared to a boring static site) We switched hosts, who suspended service twice, then found another host but realized too late they dont allow certain message boards because of the resources. So then we got a virtual private server.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Well, they don't really take up that much CPU power. It's just that these $5/mo hosts don't want to spend the money to get a decent dual-processor box, so they pile a hundred hosts on one box, and hope that nobody like me actually comes along to get my money's worth for my account.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>That's why I use Trillian.</div>