I’m having a deflated day with this project. Not that I’m doing anything terribly active with it… but I did submit a story to Slashdot about the re-launch of the website and the search for more volunteers (yadd yadda) and my submission got rejected. Frankly I am not surprised, and I know they would, I only submitted it on the off chance that it would be accepted and drive a little traffic to the site. No, what it did do was make me think about all of the missed oppotunities and, well, failures of this site and project
I’ve had 10 years to make this thing a success, and I haven’t. I don’t believe in luck with these sorts of things, you either do it, or you don’t. So far, I’ve been in the latter group. Because of this I get on the “why bother” jag. What’s the point. The hit count for the site has fallen off a cliff (used to average about 100k views a month, now, its about a hundreth of that). I only have myself to blame. I should have acted quicker. But alas that wasn’t really in the cards because my personal life went into a tail spin and there was no time or energy to deal with this.
So, this really is like starting from scratch. The only thing I’ve got to prove this thing is as old as it is, is a bunch of usenet posts from when I was first starting this project, and a whole bunch of ancient data in the database. No, this isn’t an “oh poor me” post, this is me wanting to document each and every facet of this project, and that always won’t be something interesting, new or good. There will be times when I post a thing like this.
Heh, its not like anyone is reading anyway. But, this doesn’t change anything. I will keep on truckin, keep on doing this thing, no matter what. I don’t need you 
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