This is the third writing site I have tried, haven't made much more than the others yet...but I love the community on this one. None of the others compare at all...the lively debates are the best, everybody is honest - they tell it like it is (from their point of view). I guess you could say the lack of pretention is a definite plus, along with the wide diversity of articles and knowledgable writers. I have pretty much put all my focus on writing here now. Keep up the great work guys! Xomba gets my vote. Get Paid $$$ to Write! Join Xomba! www.xomba.com/referral/7778f814 Tarot Truly Read. http://www.keen.com/TrueTarotbyTracy

Some of the originals are still here but in different forms. I remember the Good 'Ole Days when Antonia was posting about a bazillion poems a day, The greenness of the site, no purple monster/alien, before Les was born, The Orbs series, nasty fights on religion, Cara's posts on random halfway amusing stuff, and nobody making much money. Then somebody posted something I think about iron or recycling or something like that a got a bagillion hits and everything changed. For awhile it was a lot of Perez Hilton/TMZ stuff about Brit-Brit and the clan (mostly parodies). The site has changed a lot since then and for the better in my opinion. The best thing was when Nick added the 'blurbs. The quality of the the posts are much better now then in the past and the huge amount of info on this site is amazing. I remember one xombapharian who just posted random one or two sentence bytes that made no-sense. AH, the good 'ole days. Just call Nick "Virginia Slim" 'cause he's come a long way baby. Will we ever see pics of the reclusive Brett? I think he looks like this [img_assist|nid=148014|title=Brett|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=80|height=100] Shirt says "Don't call me a Cowgirl until you've seen me ride"

Have you written your xombyte next week?:-)

Yeah, I went broke in 6 months. Luckily, my girlfriend had finished college and got a nice job. She help support us while I worked part-time. It was hard work, but that makes it more worth it in the end. No one gave me 2 million dollars. All redesign efforts are funded by Xomba revenue. There are pros and cons to venture capital. We just didn't think we could get any at the time.

The alligator picture was taken in Tampa at their Aquarium. It was a playground. I like posting silly pictures and I'm not sure this current one is silly enough.