Hello whtsup!

First of all, Neatorama owes a lot to its readers, such as yourself, so thank you for coming to the blog (especially those who have been coming since August 2005 when Neatorama started).

I'm sorry to read that you won't be coming around anymore, and even sorrier to hear that the reason was not because of the content but because of the presence of advertising on the blog.

As you and other readers may have noticed, Neatorama recently went down twice for a prolonged period of time (and actually only twice since we began).

The first was when Neatorama was forced off a shared server because of its growing traffic and hence load on the server. I was forced to spend more money to move it to a VPS hosting plan.

The second time Neatorama went down was a few weeks afterwards, when it was forced off yet again from the VPS for overloading that server! I tried to cut down on the number of entries displayed, but that didn't work well as a solution.

The next step was a dedicated server, which is actually much, much more expensive. I didn't want to charge readers (who would pay anyways?) or beg for donations, so the solution was to add advertising to the blog to help defray the cost of hosting and bandwidth.

Finding the appropriate advertisers was actually also a challenge: I wanted no adult, alcohol, pop-under, pop-up, floating types of ads (and of course, those are the types of ads that pay the most!)

I hope I was able to find a happy balance between the needs of having advertisements and keeping the blog interesting to its readers.

I'm not complaining - actually, I was quite proud and happy of this little blog that could. I hope that you will change your mind and visit again.

Yeah, not as easy as it looks!

oooh, the lamborghini's nice! Thanks for the links, pld!

Thanks Josiah!

Link fixed - thanks Chad Cloman and Ant!

Thanks Ant - It was late at night when I did this entry, I knew the difference between a rooster and a chicken! Really!

You're welcome, Rita. And thank you drc and Guse!

The cartoon is a little out of date in terms of prices, but it's dead on in terms of sentiment.

I think gas price will play a big role in the upcoming election in the US.

I agree with Amy: the lack of viable public transportation in places like Southern California plus the long drive to work more than made up for the lower gas prices in the US as compared to Europe.

Thanks Eli, it's fixed now.

You're welcome, J. Tithonus Pednaud!

It's called geophagy, and it may be good for you, although most people believe it's a disorder.

Chicagoist? Someone fill me in here ...

Thanks for the translation, Diana!

Works fine on my Firefox, but not on IE... weird.

I think it's very similar to ninja shoes...