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I recall the original concept for GulfCommunity.com was born in late 2003 after a rough trip to a local restaurant.   Food poising coupled with bad service from a local establishment led me to want to create a non-biased, uncommercialized place on the internet where locals could scold poor performing businesses and more importantly share stories of positive service experiences.   I fired up my work notebook one evening, worked through the night and had a rudimentary site published within a few days.

Along the way, it was always my intention to keep from "Selling Out", as it were.    The web space was cheap or free and my cost of ownership for the site was limited to annual domain fees and occasional expenses related to adding features or changing the page layout. Some friends and I posted on local forums, announcing the new site and quickly a group of fun locals began to populate the forums and an online community was born.

I recognized the need to provide content aside from the various user-driven...

Recently, I was reading on John's dated series on how he hates the world and thought it would be good to post something a little more positive.   You caught me, I'm generally pretty optimistic.  I'm outwardly cynical but generally have a positive outlook on things - I just don't take the world or people in it too seriously. 

With that said, my friends would be happy to back up that I am the world's worst consumer.  When I walk into a business, people should run the other way.   Not that I'm going to cuss them out, yell, scream or throw things but I do have some basic expectations with regard to customer service, experience and the representation versus reality of products and services I subscribe to.

I am the guy that once called Dateline on my local Wal-mart and made the store manager personally deliver a new lawnmower to my house.I am the guy that had the owner of Daphne Honda personally sell me a car and negotiate the price because of snide tones about my age.I am the guy that, when working with...