Busy, Busy, Busy...
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I may not look like I post often, but I'm on the site often during the day, and I'm always working on something. The latest thing is pulling together this BZPower DVD-ROM, which is taking lots of time lately. I'm currently working on getting some "extra" stuff that is either hard to find or just not available anywhere else, to help entice my loyal readers to plunk down their cash. I'll definitely make it worth the money.
As it stands, right now we're looking at getting the master DVD-ROM completed by the end of January, then taking orders for it during the first half of February. Depending on how many orders we get (I'm hoping it's at least 50, but could easily see it going above 200), we'll get the production discs burned and shipped out in the second half of February. In order to get them produced in the volume we need, we'll need to get payment before we can fulfill the orders. And yes, there will be a discount for premier members, although not a huge one.
In other news, there's a new version of the forum software available that needs to get installed. The reason I don't jump right up and get that done immediately is twofold: first, it takes the site offline for at least half a day, so it's not something we do lightly. Second, and more importantly, major updates mean I have to go through the code and add our custom hacks back in... stuff like premier images, spinnies, spoiler tags, and so on. That takes time, and is prone to errors while I'm working. So it's a bit stressful. However, there are lots of new features in the update that make it worth updating.
Of course, BZPower isn't my only responsibility, so all this takes time. I'm in charge of LEGOFan.org, which unfortunately has been offline for the last week or so due to fatal disk errors. That's a whoooooole other blog entry in itself, but it doesn't really affect BZP.
And let us not forget BrickFest PDX '07, which I'm co-organizing. Lots of behind-the-scenes work on that, and some in-front-of-the-scenes stuff on the web site. As of yesterday, it's been announced that BrickFest PDX '07 will be the BrickFest for 2007, there won't be one on the east coast this year. So if you want to attend BF, you'll need to come to Portland this March. I've been trying my best to entice as many staff members to come as possible, and I know of at least one that's coming from Louisiana. If enough BZP staff and members show up, maybe we can schedule something on-site, like a BZP get-together.
In between all that, I still need to find time to actually build something one of these days. I picked up lots o' brick during the holidays, and I'm not done with that. My oldest son wants to have a large spaceship done to show at BF, so we're working on a Stargate "Prometheus" ship, about the size of an ISD. Well, when I say "working" I mean "planning on working" if you know what I mean.
That's good for now.
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