I really should hey. I have the plot all worked out for the final chapters.....after the move though im not sure where i placed em all.

I'll look.

It's a great AAR - hope you find your chapter and post it soon.

On an offhand note, all of these fantastic AAR's have inspired me to write up one of my own. I just started, but I hope to have the first chapter or two done by the start of next week...

... emphasis on "I hope."

You may have noticed this already, but I have released the first chapter of my new AAR (ahead of time, too)...

The Unsung Beginning

Hope you guys like it. Please feel free to comment on it - it's my first AAR, and I'd like some feedback on what I did well on and what I have some room to improve on. Thanks and Best Regards.

Eh, fixed.  I blame SD's link system.

I enjoy randomness as well.  Here's my contributions:

um... good find?

How about...Your hearing becomes less sharp after eating too much.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The ony place in the world where alligators and crocodiles exist in the wild is Florida.

Gawd I love the two "Books of Useless Information" I got for xmas.  Put me on Jeopordy and I'm golden!!!

No, there's Crocodiles in the wild in Africa and Austraila. I know this stuff cause I'm a reptile expert.

Seth, i think he meant the only place where both gators and crocs live.

Random facts...

The sun reverses its magnetic field every 11 years.

The officials blew the final call at the Superbowl.

You shouldn't call an official an A-hole in the middle of a basketball game - you will get a technical.

... can you guess which one is a personal experience?

DA hasn't been able to connect to the ToE website all day... any other admins got any ideas why? or anyone for that matter. he's tried different browsers, proxies, and even OS's. i checked the ban list and permissions and nothing looks messed up. any suggestions i'm sure DA would appreciate.

Thx Dys, I shoulda remembered I could communicate here some even though the site seems to have been turned over to WCers and crazed republicans . but yea, What Dys said . It's like the site doesn't exist and my browser(all of them) time out looking for it. Thought it might have been some overprotective thing on Win7 doing it but even after booting to Xp I still have the same thing. btw: I can connect to the FTP part of the server fine, which probably only adds to the confusion cause if I was IP blocked somehow(from my ISPs end or some such) I doubt I would have access to that. A cry for help it is

While it's strange that you can connect to the FTP portion, if it's happening with more than one OS it would seem likely to be an ISP-level DNS problem.  It's also possible if your DNS resolving is done locally (say via a router) that something has caused it to screw itself up, in which case a power down and power back up may be in order.

What are you using to connect via FTP, if you don't mind my asking?

And who's your ISP? 

Filezilla is the ftp client and my ISP is Embarq. I don't have router just using Xytel 660 DSL modem, which I did cycle with no luck. I hope I don't have to contact them over this, but I'm running out of things I can try on my end. It's just strange that ToE is the only site I can't go to.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.  Me too. 

I can access the ToE, though, which is even more odd.  The ToE isn't necessarily the only site you can't access-it's just the only one you go to.

I'm not seeing any congestion between Sprint and Level3 at present, however, so the problem would seem to be confined to the local portion of your ISP.

I've found that in some instances the Xytel 660 can require power pulled from it (as opposed to a simple cycle) for a period of 10-15 minutes to "reset", but this is generally only the case when the internet connection is nonfunctional.