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I see some re-decorating going… I haven’t been paying as much attention as I usually do, but The SecretBrain has a nice makeover.  Let alone the cartoon that’s posted there today!  Funny.  Miss Tragic has move to a new url, I don’t know what’s happened to the old one one but the new one has some great Halloween spirit.  Check it out.  Its entitled End of Never   .  Adjust your links accordingly.

 Speaking of Halloween spirit, AlexSuze were early in the game.  The last couple HNT’s were very much in the spirit, not to mention the banner.  Madame X’s blog is in the spirit too with a string of Pumpkins at the top and also a fun HNT.  Check these out! 

By the way, stand alone servers can have down time too.  Not only Blogger comes with a bag of down time.  As well, you need  the knowledge to block undesired visitors and bots.   A good FTP program etc…  Anyway, for the past 2 weeks, our host has made changes, plus the bots all decided to party on our servers.  So I blocked a few more.  (Inktomi Slurp)  slurps too much and slows activity to a crawl.  Not to mention the acquired knowledge of the software you decide to go with.

What on earth is Blogger Beta?  Maybe users can enlighten me!  I have a Blogger account, which conveniently allos me to post comments on my friends’ blogs.  However, the new one "Beta" picks up on my Gmail registration and sends me to create a new one.

So tell me what is Beta about it.   Also, what is Blogger 2 API, code to design skins?  Don’t be afraid to shed some light on this for me. 

Enough of that, I mentionned this week, Mr. Gently, who hosts a blog entitled  Gently, Gently .  Active since January, this gentleman is a busy body, hosting SBC as well as contributing to Scenes, which I also previously noted.  Mr. Gently’s blog goes without saying, is good stuff!  Hosted on Blogger, nice theme, the mission statement goes :  Sexy and erotic fiction and ideas.  If you’re looking for the Sugasm round up, Mr. Gently posts these too.  Altogether, a good adult blog, with a fresh perspective on things.

I’ve also explored some the ideas, coming off SBC, Mr. Gently’s spin off.  The information there is handy and valid, hence I may go back and read further on Blogger, as ther’s seems to be a fair amount of info there.  

As for ideas and discussion there, regarding "this" community, which I will briefly describe as the adult writing community;  I have spent the better part of the last year and a half, promoting writers and somehow, I do feel it has brought together a lot of people.  Not so much of late, as I find, there are now better tools to do what I was doing at first.  It’s called evolution!  Still I have fun doing what I do, and intend on going. 

BlogStormz and  ABH are probably the best 2 tools out there to get exposure.  SBC is not so much about exposure, it’s more of a Forum, Blog style.  Which is a good idea, because I don’t think  a PhPbb2 type board would have worked.  These serve a different community altogether.

As I look at the list of participants,  there’s no doubt in my mind, SBC is a success.  As for PhPbb2 or chat rooms, many of us have the capacity of setting these up, and have come forward.  Why bother, if SBC is working out?  Forums PhPbb2 styles have become a bit of a headache vis a vis unwanted users and spam bots etc.  Ask Me, I Know!  (BTW)  There is still a chatroom setup on DHSpicy and I’ll be glad to grant new passwords and access(or we kcan keep it open for a Naughty bit one night!).  Again, with Google Chat, MSN, or Yahoo, is there really a need for this?