Ah and Sam’s day continues: We collected $93 today, enough for my dad to advance me 32 more to hit that $125 I needed, and plus my own $115 means a $240 slice from slicehost ($20 * 12 = $240). I’m looking forward to having fast hosting for the new rendition of Holmdel Forums…Oh and bad news: we lost the attachment folder. Meaning, everything we’ve ever attached…is now gone. This…stinks, and thats an understatement. Oh well, at least we have the content of our posts…

Speaking of Holmdel Forums, I’ve been throwing around some ideas lately. Since we’re graduating next year, I wonder what everyone would think if I cleaned it up a good bit (take out anything and everything offensive to anyone, all pointless arguments and drama, and perhaps our “Word Association Game”) — and then donated it to the school. I’m sure the school techs are competent enough to install SMF at school and if we load the database, not only will we turn the site completely transparent (therefore quelling the ridiculous rumor that this site was ever for cheating) but we will be giving a huge resource to kids who eventually come to Holmdel High. We’ll have all of Gettis’s studyguides that I wrote, I think we have clayton guides, tons of gym midterm/final study sheets, business fund, drama, ceramics, AP US History outlines/discussions/essay samples…(hmm but that one we’ll have to talk to the teachers about), math studyguides by yours truly and sometimes niti, chem studyguides from Ms. Hoheb’s class last year, language guides for spanish/latin/italian…yeah. Essentially, we leave a ginormous database for them. And perhaps, being the creator of this monster, I’ll get to slap my name on it and leave a legacy in Holmdel before I graduate. How sick is that?

That would be so l33t. Speaking of transparency, I’m really glad our vice principal (who doesn’t want to be named on anything I write so I will refrain from stating it), understands that HolmdelForums is no cheating site. I think thats a direct result of Lisa Yan and Kris Lee’s chat with him earlier in the year when there were uncouth rumors going around. Thats really encouraging.

Oh and my thank you list so far for donations:

1) Seth
2) Autumn
3) Greg Cheng
4) Elissa S.
5) Alex Roik
6) Karl Reyes
7) Justin Chang (2)
8) Julie Kim
9) Chris Ma
10) Johnson Wu
11) Kevin Tracy
12) Izzy Li
13) Kate B.
14) Paula
15) Eleana
16) Ann Chou
17) Aaron Sun
18) Frank Liu
19) Sharon Tam
20) Gregg Badicheck
21) Peter A.
22) Kelvin Chen
23) Mark Wuu
24) Kun He Lee
25) Erik Lew
26) Anne Chen
27) Lisa Chen (5) (THANKS)
28) Nisha D.
29) Horace (2)
30) Mike Lee
31) Sean Lu

You’re all wonderful people. Thanks so much everyone!

Luckily for me, Andrew Staniforth is smart. He saved a backup on 4.10.08, which is far more recent than my 3.10.07 backup.

So HolmdelForums will be back as soon as I get enough money to purchase a new server. Which hopefully is tomorrow. If not tomorrow, tuesday. I gotta get enough money by tuesday… finals are friday.

So essentially, if Josiah’s servers don’t go back up, I lose 3 years worth of my life. 3 years of logging my progress through high school, all because I failed to make a stupid backup. Oh and like 2 years of Holmdel Forums stuff. Yet I don’t care that much somehow…I want to start fresh. Junior Year is over… so yup. I’m starting here, on my laptop, where my files don’t die mysteriously. Haha.

I think…hmm. I think after 3rd mp this year, someone ripped my brain off its hinges. Thus, I currently lack the capacity to feel angry about my loss. I’m just thinking ahead, toward making a new blog that will record the next phase of my journey through life.