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Heard from old pals TMan and Pix.. they’re getting married in Sept ’05! I’m very happy for them..been together through quite a lot, and persevered very well. Krypto must be a full-grown pooch by now (as fully grown as a Jack Russell can be, anyhow.)

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Quote Of The Day

“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.”
— Confucius

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There is closing up shop… not going dark yet, but not advancing any more.

Important Changes at There, Inc.
Today I would like to announce that There is changing its strategic direction to focus on our technology platform.

We will continue to run the consumer service, but will need to make changes so that we can better align our costs and run this service profitably. As we go forward we will continue to evaluate the consumer service and our ability to meet our financial goals on an ongoing basis.

All of us at There have poured our heart, soul, and in many cases, significant financial investment into There these last few years. We have been inspired watching you, the community, also pour yourselves into making There great and unique and so incredibly fun. We believe that virtual worlds like There will continue to evolve, and want There to continue to play a key role in this evolution. By focusing on There as a platform, we believe it can play a role in any number of virtual worlds, including the one you’ve helped to build.

Effective today, these are the changes we are making to the consumer service:

1. We’ll be open the same hours we are now, and we’ll continue to offer customer service through Live Help and email. (We haven’t determined if customer service hours will change, but will let you know if they do.)

2.We’ll also continue to have in-world moderation to help control griefers.

3. We’ll still be accepting developer submissions, although the approval time may take a bit longer.

4. We will still accept new members (monthly subscriptions only), and you’ll still be able to purchase Therebucks.

5. We will no longer be making regular updates to the software, and we will not be fixing bugs.

6. We’re not sure yet how we’ll handle There Central, but will get back to you when we do know.

7. We’ll likely have some kind of newsletter, but it may be sent out less often than the twice a week it goes out now.

8. We’ll be updating the Terms of Service soon to offer a 30-day money-back guarantee on membership fees.

9. We will no longer be sponsoring the Mentor or Event Host Credit (EHC) programs, nor will we be paying Refer a Friend bonuses.

We will be posting a Q&A which will hopefully address some of your questions shortly.

Michael Wilson
VP, Community

Ah well. At least I got a couple of nice pals out of it. There goes my free Mentor money.

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It’s been a while since I’ve done this –

scottobear’s Word Usage

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Username: Word Count by Hutta.

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one year and a day ago – memes, top ten popular There-writers, best family guy quote ever, puffball collective, Newt extreme closeup

two years ago – more LJ reflecting (I averaged 3 posts a day back then), “Vanity Deleters” and keeping LJ for the future, broken pic links to repair, awesome cd from sholanda

three years ago – Life improved for me, LJ has gained more features, egress, rubber track conversion, ramen noodles, kumbaya, answer tot he woodchuck question.

four years ago – Fritz gave Newt a parasite, my first actual entry.