A Ron Paul Milestone

I thought I'd write something about this here.  First, the back-story...

Ron Paul's campaign posed a challenge to his supporters on Monday September 24th.  The challenge was to raise $500,000 for his campaign's 3rd quarter postings.  Within 2-3 days, they had raised the $500,000.  As a result, the challenge was changed, and we (the supporters) were told to try raising $1,000,000 by the 30th on midnight (the end of the 3rd quarter).

Needless to say, the group of people who keep 'spamming' the debate polls, have done their part in showing just how cunning they are.  Through almost 12,000 donations, by 10:31pm on Saturday September 29th, 2007, we had raised $1,000,000.  As of the writing of this post, there is still some more time left before the deadline arrives, and the total count for the fundraising is well over $1,025,000 and never stops rising.  To 'capture' history, I decided to take a screen shot right when my screen showed me we'd gone over the million mark:

 

- Andy

A Small Vacation

Well, I've been working quite a bit recently, and had somewhat taken a half-break the past 2 weeks or so.  To conclude this break, I will be leaving on a 4 day weekend trip up to see my father and my grandparents.  I'm looking forward to it (even though I'm leaving -after- work tonight at midnight) and hope it will give me a chance to both relax and sweat out some stress.  Keep thinking of those names and sending them to me!

 

- Andy

ZibNetBot: 2nd Generation

As we're working (slowly) on rebuilding ZibNetBot into it's second generation version, I thought it'd be fun to give everyone a chance to come up with a new name for the bot.  The quick and dirty is this:

The person who comes up with the name that we use for ZNB will receive $25 from me personally.

That's about it now that I think about it, so start emailing me those names or message me on IRC (irc.zibings.net #Zibings.com) at z|Andrew or z|Andy.  I'll do my best to keep track of things and announce a winner in 2-3 weeks.

Also, at this point, the best names currently are 'Bot', 'z|Bings' and 'Ace', but I think most of you can do better than that.  :p

 

- Andy

Car Work

It's been a while since I've posted anything about my baby doll, but this weekend I did a bit of work on it with Zac and Big Hoffman.  A lucky trip to a junkyard rendered some pristine condition parts for the Bimmer and a lot of happy moments ensued.  My sunroof is now fully functionaly (and better than it was when I received the car), the front bumper has been replaced/repaired from its stint with an unknown car, and the distributor cap/coil and spark plug wires have been replaced.

Needless to say, she's a happy Bimmer at the moment, and I'm a happy owner.  ;)

 

- Andy