As many of you know, I lost my job earlier this month but it officially takes place a week from today.

As I've been on my free vacation for the past 2+ weeks, I have had time to process the shock of being laid off, and to try and get past the emotions that still want to rear their ugly heads every now and then.

If anything positive has come out of this (so far), it's the way God has used this as a witness. I talked to so many strangers the weekend it happened and somehow...

With about two months before we relaunch TNv4, I have *most* of the forum stuff complete. In fact, it gets hard for me to look at this site and how narrow it is.

I've started to work on the main part of the site, particularly the news. This is the highlight of the changes, because this will totally change how we think about and do news.

We'll be going to a blog-style format, allowing for more original posts as well as our traditional news. Best of all, comments can...

It's officially Spring.

Time to start sweating (not that I already am... because I already am.)

Well, this weekend was supposed to be dedicated to work on the new site. But, of course, technology has its way of throwing a monkey wrench into things.

We use a special piece of software called vBSEO, which allows for search-engine friendly URLs to be used on the forums, as well as provide other functions related to search engine optimization.

Well, about 6 hours after the upgrade was complete, somehow it broke. Many of you were met with a PHP error as soon as you tried...

Yeah, it's short notice, but to begin the prep work for TNv4, we need to upgrade our forums. We will be down starting at 9:00pm EDT, and hopefully we will be down no less than an hour.

We will be upgrading all vBulletin components... that is, vBulletin, our blog software, and some related software.

There will be some new features available (to both the Blog and the Forums). More will be available later.