First I wish to apologise for the lack of a yearly christmas message from me and the Council of Elders, but I was away from keyboard for the holidays, and I have stopped celebrating the christian holiday anyway. So instead, I am writing this right now. I know I am a bit early. There's still a few minutes left of 2009, but I just finished this year's christmas present (further on named New Year's Present ).
When looking back at 2009 for this community, I see a lot of great deeds and a lot of fun happenings. ArchMagosAlchemys has become a worthy admin of the boards after intense training by yours truly. The P&M challenges have gotten off the ground and even more articles have been submitted to the LEAF. But there's also been less great things. I will always remember the big crash we had now in December. However, nothing bad which doesn't bring anything good with it! It gave me a chance to freshen up the whole file system and coding of the site, and I am now more in control of what I'm doing.
What is your best memory of 2009?
Member of the Year Award 2009
There is, as always, a Member of the Year Award to be handed out to the one member whom the community thinks has done the most for the site and its members over the past year. There was a week of nominations in which we got 17 very good candidates. We then had almost two weeks of voting, and the winner was:
- BEITHIR SEUN
You will probably get a new title shortly
New Year's Present
As stated before, I have just finished coding this year's present. It may be boring and not really a present, but it is done and I had no other better ideas. Since the big crash in December, we have been without a chatroom and the precious LEAF. However, after many hours of coding, the LEAF is finally back!
There are still some small things to add, due to me losing a few articles in the crash. And I'm waiting for a few lines of text to add here and there. But the new and fully functional LEAF can be found at:
http://www.asrai.org/leaf
Now it is time for me to get off the computer for a while and look at the fireworks which has just begun outside. Enjoy your evening, and let 2010 be an even better year for all of you!
Nagathi
Asrai.org Owner & Admin