hey all…

i’m the new kid in klusterville (check the alliteration). and by new kid i mean, like, the lo-tech version. por ejemplo, the video games i rock in my house (read: apartment) are atari. atari 2600. but obviously this will all change super-soon as my newfound klusterness will make me hi-tech any minute now. can you feel it? yeah, it’s all happening.

it’s cool though because no one hired me to code or anything - in fact, i’m starting to suspect i was hired mainly to provide a running laugh track. i do what i can. i mean, “that’s what she said” really can only just get funnier with each passing day - and i’m not even being [that] facetious. i may be regressing to the 8th grade boy i never was. that’s the other thing, clearly they needed a chick around the office. again, i do what i can.

so, yeah, we’ll see how mouthy i feel on this thing…have never been an at-work blogger before…more the type that blogged at work when she maybe shouldn’t have. but that’s just between us. shhhh…

i’m-so-not-signing-off-with-anything-about-unicorns,

stef

First of all, our apologies to the community.  Ish.

Secondly, we had an atrociously bad day here at the Kluster nerve center and all sites were down for about 15 hours.  We believe we have restored full functionality at this point and we’ll be monitoring the site closely to ensure it stays in that condition (huge ups to Mr. Mike Lacy! Y’all send ‘im props, ya here).

Thirdly, in light of the site being down, we’ve given each namethis project an additional 72 hours to collect great names.  Everyone get in there and make sure to do an extra special excellent naming job for us, k?

Thanks so much for your patience and sticking with us.  We hope you guys had a better day then us today, and you have a great weekend.

We’ve been hearing feedback from the community and noticed in the logs that there are sometimes issues with new user registration.  This has been fixed on our testing servers and we’ll be moving it live in the near future.  If anyone’s had these problems, please check back to see when you’ll be good to go.  Sometimes this error manifests itself by not allowing a new user to login and giving no error message (a double-whammy).

As always, thanks for being cool.

1000 watts for the best purchase with a Kluster debit card.  Picture or it didn’t happen.

In honor of the 43rd birthday of Dermontti Dawson, soon-to-be hall of fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers, we’re celebrating by giving 2000 watts to each community member.

Like Dawson, who made 7 straight Pro Bowls, the Kluster community is filled with all-stars. Since launching NameThis (and as of this blog post), you have proposed 9,030 names and invested 870,000 watts.

Thanks.

We’d also like to thank you for all of your feedback as we build out more exciting features for NameThis, Knewsroom, and the rest of the Kluster portfolio. We have some great things planned and can’t wait to roll them out. Stay tuned.

And one last thing, everyone rush out and grab the latest and greatest browser, Firefox 3. Today is download day and not only can you participate in setting a Guinness Book record by downloading it, it’s also the nicest thing you can for every friendly web developer in your life.

UPDATE: I didn’t realize but I’ve now been made aware that today is also Barry Manilow’s birthday. We here at Kluster, especially Ben, couldn’t let the opportunity pass by. Everyone has received an additional 195 watt bump for Barry Manilow’s 65th birthday. 195 watts because he’s 3 times the man of any of you.