From
everyone here at the Internet Office...HAPPY NEW YEAR, EMPEROR'S
HAMMER!!!
And with the new year, the IO ushers in a slew of new things in
time for New Year's AND the EH's upcoming 10th Anniversary!
First and foremost, I would like to welcome CM Rokin to the IO
staff as our newest IOA. Rokin will be joining us primarily as a
PHP coder and helping with development of all sorts of fun stuff!
Now onto the big news! This week I would like to officially announce
the release of the much-anticipated IO project I've been coding
the past few weeks. Ladies and gentlemen, EHNet's eXtensible
Polling System (XPS) is now completed and available to the general
public. XPS primarily serves as a means of "data collection"
with lots of nifty features! The main page at http://www.ehnet.org/xps/
has some helpful information. We also HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you
read the XPS Help Manual since it's full of helpful information
and is sure to answer 95% of any questions you can think of. Keep
in mind - XPS isn't just for polls (that's why it's eXtensible!)
- we encourage you to come up with your own uses for it! I hope
you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it!
For his hard work and dedication on the XPS project, IOA Xander
Drax has been promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel (LC)!
More big news! ELS Display Names! That's right! Did your
former MB handle get truncated? Not to worry! ELS now supports the
display name feature - you can change yours at http://els.minos.net.
A few rules though: Your display name must be unique and no longer
than 30 characters (either alphanumeric, spaces or underscores).
You may only change your display name ONCE PER WEEK! Once you change
your display name, the Message Boards will show that as your name.
However, if you request message boards you must still supply your
ELS username!
PLUS, even more news! The old message board data is now online
in the Archived Message Board Data repository which you can
view at http://www.minos.net/oldmb/!
Please note that all the forums are LOCKED. You cannot post to them;
the primary message board remains at http://www.ehnet.org/mb/.
However, for those of you who wish to view the old data, you can
at the Archive. If you wish to continue a thread on the new MB,
simply just paste a link that refers to the old topic you wish to
continue in your post on the new MB.
This week was the last week for the SOTW Bonanza! competition.
However, since this week's SOTW is the IO's newly released XPS project,
I will be forgoing the IS-SR. Look for more SOTW Bonanza! competitions
in the future!
