By florky on Friday, June 23, 2006 10:54 AM

Let me start my fist blog on this website by saying how good this site is!  This latest release has really shown the dedication and skills of the webmaster ( Hey Bill :) )  There is alot of very useful information available here, and alot more to come.  I can't wait to see what comes next!  I would like to see some advertising and support from the users to help defray the costs associated with this site.  Although the hosting is currently being donated, there are other costs associated with running this site.  Different modules like the blogs, forums, classified, jobs, and others are not free.  They cost money, and must be maintained, upgraded and modified.  This website is not going to make anyone rich, but with some help from the community and businesses we can all help to make it bigger and better! 

Bill --  setup a paypal account for GC, and add a DONATE button to the website. This site is easily worth $25 per year for the info on it --  you'll have mine as soon as its ready.  I'm not saying to charge...

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By Administrator Account on 6/19/2006

Hiya All,

I appreciate the feedback recieved over the last few weeks and I was excited about the results of the recent Press Release - Gulf Coast Web Portal Hopes to Aid in Post-Hurricane Community Information Sharing.   From what I'm told the Press Release was picked up around 50,000 times by media outlets and online news readers.  Unfortunately, the resulting membership increase was less than stellar but we will continue to push forward nontheless.  

This week & last, we've added a few more features from the old site including:

Community Sound Off Community Gas Locator NOAA Hurricane Tracking Feed Real-time Chat Next week we are working to add enhancements to forums and blogging so that topics from the forums and blogs can appear on other parts of the side (read: homepage) as well as information about becoming a local sponsor.

Also last week, we began to advertise via Google Adwords and are now showing Google Adsense advertising on select pages in hope to raise money that...

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By Mad Scientist on 6/8/2006

Next in my series concerning people that I hate, I decided it would be good to blog about the idiots with whom I work.   I noticed on the forums someone bellyaching about the office in which they work so I decided it was time to share my experiences in the matter.

As previously mentioned, I work in a factory and I manage people.   Working in a factory puts me in a position to manage the best and brightest souls that our local slums and trailer parks can muster.   If they've been to jail or are prone to eventually go there, they usually work in my factory.  Those are my employees.   Sure, I have the occassional goon that is clean but just dumb through heredity but for the most part I get to enjoy the company of crackheads, dopefiends, rednecks and the product of our great Alabama judicial  and correctional system.

As much comedic material that the dopefiends and other trailer dwellers provide me through the day, the real winners are the mental heavyweights that make up our office staff. I'll never...

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By Mad Scientist on 6/2/2006

I thought to myself, "Self," (that's what I call myself) - "what better way to start off my debut in blogging than to talk about how much I hate people."It all started when I was born.   Here I was, completely happy - hanging out in the womb and next thing you know - some asshole is cutting on me, putting me on a cold metal table and eventually into the arms of some schmuck that later came to be known as "mom".

Don't get me wrong -  I'm sure she was a good mom sometime between hits on the crackpipe and trips to the liquor store when she was forced to sober up because she used up my college savings to fund her chemical endeavors.  I did learn alot from dad. Hey, I turned out okay.  Except for a small chip on my shoulders and an appreciation for stupidity - I'm a pretty normal guy.

I work in a factory. I work on cars and I manage people.   If God ever decided to kill off the least educated rednecks in the world - he wouldn't flood the earth.  He would flood factories and hunting stores in Southern Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.  No need to use more water than necessary, ya know.

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