I'm suprised...

I know I've essentially disappeared for the last month or so, sorry about that, but I'm still working hard for exams....turns out I'm better at running UFO websites than I am at my degree so I have to work my ass off to do well.

Anyway, since I've said to everyone that I'm at University, I'm surprised that nobody has tracked me down via Facebook (MySpace for college people, basically). Since those who aren't in college can't get on Facebook, shall I post some pictures of me from my profile and such?

Hope everyone's doing okay here and having fun, I've just been checking out the stats and there's been a recent surge in posts per day and a big increase of new users registering ! It's looking good.

Need someone who's good with Google

A friend of mine needs to know who sculpted/designed the Yuri Gagarin statue in Moscow, and if possible the date it was erected. Here's a picture of it so you know that you are looking at the right one:

http://www.ffagency.com/gagarin/bild/12.jpg

I've tried to find something about it but failed, I don't know if anyone else will be able to do better.

Thanks.

Mlb 2006

AS...got to be pleased with how the Reds are doing, right? Better than the Yanks. :|

Bermuda Triangle-esque...

http://www.hertsessexnews.co.uk/news/mercu...%20triangle.lpf

The Future of AU - Please Read

Setting aside all modesty for a moment, this is quite an important post for the forum. Please excuse the fact that I consider it important, even though it's just about me. You're going to get to learn a bit about me in the process though, which I hope you will find interesting.

I'm at University in England, studying Computer Science, and my degree is getting tough (I say getting...it's always been tough, but it's now getting important). As such, I'm no longer in a position where I have the time to make a good job of running a website as large as AU. Before I go any further, this isn't a post saying the site is going to close, quite the opposite in fact. I've basically just kept the site ticking over for the last couple of years, because I haven't had the time to do much else. Just doing the day to day stuff is now a major chunk of my life (usually 1-2 hours minimum on quiet days, up to 10 hours on busy days, plenty of late nights when things aren't working, etc.). Unfortunately, I'm not at a University where we just sit around all day like students should, so I'm doing 50-60 hours work a week as well, looking for jobs and I have other hobbies (I claim, anyway) and responsibilities.

For me right now, my exams are my main priority, and towards the end of Summer, my dissertation. It turns out that I'm not that great at Computer Science, so I have to work hard (bah..). As such, I need as much time as possible and I'm starting to find that when this website needs my attention, it's distracting me from my work and making it harder for me to relax.

Starting near the end of June I'm going to be interning in London for 9 weeks, and that'll be nine weeks where I won't have any free time and quite possibly not have an Internet connection. That happens right after my exams this year meaning I've got to decide what I'm going to do about AU in those 9 weeks right now.

So, after lots of deliberating, I've decided that I need to find someone new to run AU.com and give it the attention it deserves. I was hoping that one of the webmasters of one of the other major UFO websites would want to take over, so it'd be someone would could just slide into my shoes without any trouble, but that didn't turn out to be the case.

I'm currently talking to some people who've got a good interest in UFOs/aliens/paranormal and have plenty of experience running big forums so that I can train one of them up to be my replacement. They'll be at least as good at the job as I am, but will also have the time to drive the site forwards to be the real créme of paranormal sites on the Net.

This hasn't been an easy decision for me to make, but my life has made it so that it's a case of find a replacement or close the site, and I'm pretty sure that finding a replacement is the best option out of those two. I shall still be around (maybe forever !) and be an admin for quite a while to make any transition as smooth as possible and the site will continue to head in the same direction - it'll still be Alien-UFOs.com and it'll still be the place you enjoy coming to. There'll just be less of me, which I'm sure will be acceptable.

Sorry for how sudden this is, things have rather all caught up to me quite quickly. I'm not running off next week or anything though, so it's not really as sudden as it might sound.