After making a post on the IslandEdition.com message board suggesting that ExaComm’s websites PEISearch.com and IslandAuction.pe.ca where horrible Yahoo and eBay rip-offs, respectively, I was surprised to find out that I was unable to convince the mob that some form of theft has taken place. Before descending into inanity, including a post which read, in entirety, “stephen = idiotic comments” which was posted by an anonymous coward. Read the thread yourself and you decide, but please don’t email me if you disagree because you are an idiot.

On a remotely related note, I would like to acknowledge inspiration from Peter Rukavina’s Reinvented.net, and 37signals‘ Signal vs. Noise. Both sites are absolutely brilliant, and while I did appropriate the general concept of the sites, I was careful not to borrow any features of the design and layout beyond what is common to the popular but unfortunately titled “blog” phenomenon.

The stress and pressure involved in making the first post on acts of volition is, as you can surely imagine, enormous. The very thought of millions upon millions of Internet users’ greedily drinking in every word is nearly paralysing. Nonetheless, it must be done.

I would like to thank Steven and Rob, as well as the legions of nameless others who participated in the creation of this site. I realize the excitement of having ones own website is not one which extends very far beyond the proprietors of the website, but if everyone will just pretend to be as thrilled with the concept as we are that’ll be just fine. No matter the level of outside enthusiasm, I know we’ll have fun.

Cheers.

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