IRB is ten years old in March. Can you believe it? Most of you can't because you haven't been here that long. It's amazing how much the website has changed in so many years. There have been so many people that have been a part of this place. I just wanted to thank you all.

Check out some old school IRB here: http://www.screensho...eallybored.com/

It's pretty crazy how much it's changed, right?

stupid image limits...there's supposed to be 9 of these

Watch oil gush from pipe in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. And hopefully watch them plug it, as well.

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Dearest Members of IRB,

As imreallybored.com approaches its 9th year, I wanted to step in and give a few updates on where things are in the world of Lougan. I've been really, really swamped. In the last few weeks, I've been informed that my current job as it stands will no longer exist and that I will be promoted/laterallymoved/orgchartrestructured to a new division of the university. I will officially be leading the university in its social media initiatives. In other words, I'll have responsibility. Which I think its pretty awesome deal, especially considering all the crap I've gone through last couple of years. Plus, my workload feels like its actually going to decrease some.

Either way, I've missed the hell out of this place. As many of you know, I have been doing a good bit of behind the scenes work when I can. I've significantly upgraded the power of the server, updated the backend software that runs the website, and various other things. Hopefully everything has been going well. No one has emailed me or messaged me to complain... so I guess its going well. My hope is that I'll actually be able to spend more time on here once my job transition is completed.

So I just wanted to say thanks for sticking around all of these years!

Your benevolent web/host/admin,

Lougan

WHERE IS ANNE I HEAR YOU ASK!? (well i ask)
i'll tell you where she is! SHE'S NOT BLOODY HERE!


this is a formal demand/plea that she is rightfully returned to IRB.

LONG LIVE ANNE.

An interesting discussion:

Ahhhhhhhh

Although i'm not sure if it was considered today, yesterday, or tomorrow due to your time zone crazyness!

so whether this is early, on time, or late i wish you a day of awesomenss ya stud!!

Hurricane Irene is heading straight for the datacenter that houses the IRB server in NJ. So that means its a remote possibility that IRB might go down should the power get knocked out and the backup diesel generators get knocked out.

It's not like backups generators fail and cause catastrophe. Right?

So I just wanted to make you aware of that possibility. If it goes down, you'll be ok. Just go outside and play. It'll be back up eventually.

That is all.

I just spent the last 6 hours upgrading IRB. I hope you are all happy. I was trying to upgrade a new member and before I knew it was doing the whole kit and kaboodle. There are a crap load of new features, I'm sure they'll confuse you and you'll complain. Ashe already has.

Here are some new features:

• Customizable Profiles
  
• Customizable Site Colors (Change your Theme at the bottom to Nacht)
  
• Tags for Topics
  
• New Text Editor
  
• New Gallery Interface

And the Arcade is dead. Why? I have no clue. Those games were crappy anyway.