Brain Fart Update

I just got the note from Brandon. He deleted the old forum so withing one hour (6 a.m EST) I'll have the new forum up, thought probably no topics. Feel free to have a look, though, and DO come back.

Brain Fart; Re- Start

Holy cow! Much has not happened since I last posted. Our router had a brain fart and died; my notebook's ethernet connection crapped so I couldn't connect it to the cable modem; I suffered a serious case of literary constipation due to the crampy location of the desktop machine.

You had to have been there to understand it, but the bottom line is I'm back on the sofa in my spudwear to pen an update.

I discovered during this time that my Invision board installation on my web server - that I have had up since '05 and never used - has been contaminated with P.O.R.N.. that is, in the only available forum, the TEST forum. I also found out that the server no longer offers this application, and to my dismay I couldn't find it to remover it; nor could I log in to remove the offending forum. So possibly everyone I have invited has been mis-introduced to my subject preferences.

Hopefully my support guru, Brandon, will have this rectified by the end of today, and I can Install the PHPBB forum and finally post the questions I indicated in my post of the 6th.

So please, if you wander across this post anytime after today, say tomorrow for example, you should find the forum salted with some engaging subjects for discussion and debate.


In other business, I'm working on a store. I may only have PayPal as an option at first; a merchant account is a lot to worry about if I don't even have customers. Later I'll offer credit card pass through. The point is, my shop will support the website, and hopefully me as well, at least as another source of income. I want to report that I'm happy to keep my books open to establish that I'm not raping the Public. I'm not going to present every detail, but as far as what my income versus outgo is, there will be no secrets. We'll see how effective honesty is in keeping visitors returning (and buying stuff from me that they can otherwise buy elsewhere).

Finally, I am planning to produce the NEWSLETTER that the HBPA does not produce. We'll see how far that gets, but I wouldn't be surprised if, once I start to do it unsolicited, I'll be getting lots of hits on the website.

That's it.

Nuttin much happenin' yet

Something's wrong with my laptop. This is really cramping my style, but anyway I'm on the desktop to make contact. What I'm going to do today is place some of the questions in the Forum that I asked friends to submit, and I'll be waiting for replies in the next couple of months. These questions are wide ranging, but for example, a couple of them have to do with what happens to racehorses when their carreers end. This is one of the biggest issues for debate, and it's not all about debate.

I'm also going to first post this question in my BLOG and answer it briefly there, mainly because I am pushing exposure, but also to permit some anonymous comments. Some people will simply not post unless they don't even have to create a fake identity.

You have to not theat right now, nobody is congregating here. I haven't advertised, haven't promoted, not a thing. What I have to do next is start placing the www.hoofstep.com label everywhere and hope somebody goes there. Then, I have to hope people head for the Forum and actually register so they can offer their own insights and comments.

So if you haven't seen this accouncement enough already, go to the FORUM!