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Happy Birthday Donna!

Happy Birthday Donna!

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On behalf of everyone at Pixel2life.com, I would like to wish our dear Donna a VERY happy birthday and wish her all the best on this day and for the next 100 years!

It's hard to imagine that it has already been over 4 years since I met Donna and she became such an integral part of this community, and I think that it's important to take this special day to remind everyone just how important and appreciated Donna is as a member of this team and as a personal friend. It's easy to forget how large a part Donna is on this site because she is so efficient and autonomous that you barely hear from her… but when she's not around, you start to notice the egdes of the site begin to sag and the work pile almost immediately begins to grow.

Donna's dedication to this site in the last 4 years has been nothing short of… well… insane I suppose! She oversees the operations of the forums, she keeps the inbound submissions tidy, takes care of all the dead link reports and keeps the database clean, keeps an eye on the toplist queue for new submissions and basically keeps all of us other staff organized. It's hard to imagine how she's put up with me for so long to be perfectly honest about it.

Please join me and tip your hats and clink your glasses together and join my applause for Donna, and I look forward to working with her in v5 as we head towards new and exciting challenges and renewed vigor for the community. I think 2009 will be a blast for us and I can't imagine it being successful without Donna here to keep our heads screwed on straight and the site running smooth.

Thank you Donna so much for your dedication, patience and tolerance… I can't imagine getting P2L to succeed without you.

Dan

V5 is delayed, so we'll just give out prizes instead!

V5 is delayed, so we'll just give out prizes instead!

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Hey guys… well it's become apparent that any and all expected release dates have been blown to hell and we're still months away from release as far as I can tell. It sucks because the new stuff is just too cool for words, but people are busy with school and other projects so going has been very slow. Nick is doing what he can and it's looking great, but we definitely need more time.

So while we continue to work on v5, I thought maybe we could have some contests and give out some prizes I had planned to give out with the v5 release. I can worry about new v5 prizes later, for now I'd like to have some fun. So this week I'm going to come up with a little fun contest we can all participate in… I want you to post a picture in this thread of you wearing your halloween costume OR of your halloween pumpkin carving! It's that easy… After Halloween I will randomely select 1 winner and they get a cool little iPod Shuffle decked out in P2L green!

So post your photos and good luck everyone!

For those of you reading this on my Blog, you can find the contest thread HERE!

Dan

Happy Birthday Faken!

Happy Birthday Faken!

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Faken turns 32 today apparently !!!

Happy Birthday !!!

Someone get an announcement up and running plz, so we can post some funny pics r something !!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to YOU FAKEN !!

Make it a good one !

Scythar aka TheTeacher

Allergies, Back to School and other Stuff

Allergies, Back to School and other Stuff

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It’s been a long summer, filled with fairly crappy weather, Spongebob Squarepants and several hundred yards of Bounty paper towels. And if there’s anything I learned this summer, it’s that toilet training a puppy when it’s constantly raining is a HUGE pain in the ass! But it seems with back to school coming up next week, summer finally decided to start about a week ago. It’s honestly been the worst summer I have ever seen in this city weather-wise, I can not believe how much rain we’ve had. But now that August and September are here, so is ragweed, so now my sinus ass-kicking has begun.

My stay-at-home summer duties are almost up and Rosebud doesn’t need to pee every 35 minutes, so it finally means I can start catching up and stepping up the efforts on Pixel2life v5 and the community’s overall development. Not sure if anyone has noticed, but P2L was recently awarded a PR7 from Google on the last update. No idea how long that will last, but… GO US! Nick is back in school but still working hard on the site. At this point I would say we are 75% – 80% done, so it’s getting there.

In between work, I am also working with our NAID puppy on training and she has been doing VERY well. Here she is at 5 months old, taken today:

We started obedience training about 3 weeks ago and she has picked up basic commands EXTREMELY well, I am totally impressed. She seems to be able to grasp and accept commands immediately… As an example, she went from never hearing the lie down command to doing it on command anytime while walking (You can literally go Up, Down, Up, Down.. and she will keep standing and laying down) in 3 days. And she does this with minimal praise, I don’t even bother with food anymore. So I am extremely proud of her and I can’t wait for this winter to start Skijoring with her. We’ve been training with the harness too and she LOVES to pull! We haven’t had much training time though, I’ve been busy with P2L plus the crappy weather makes it hard to go out and pull in the muck.

So that’s about it from my end… all is well, just trying to hang in there until we get v5 out the door. I’m also happy to report we are back to the 5 – 7 day tutorial queue time on P2L, rather than the 2 weeks+ we had going all summer long.

That’s it for me guys and gals, take care and good luck to you students in your new school year!

Dan