January 25, 2000 -- Anybody want to buy a
computer? Mine is locking up every half hour! It's a little hard to work
that way, but we are making it. We lost our entire D: drive this week,
too. All our Drag Racing Lists and Internet stuff is on C:, so no problem
there. We did potentially lose HUNDREDS of drag racing photos we had
downloaded and were planning to use on the site eventually (to provide a
visual for each list entry). We haven't given up on it yet -- there is
supposed to be a company in Virginia that can salvage broken disk drives
and copy them to new ones for you. That's our next step. We finished the
tally for all our free Tee Shirt winners for July, August, and
September 1999! They join our previously-selected winners from May and
June 1999. Meet our big winners on the FREE
STUFF page. We sent emails to all winners tonight. Winners, send
us your address and shirt size and you will have your shirts within a
week! Thanks for playing! OK -- it's 2:48 AM, so time to go! We'll do more
tomorrow night. Ciao! bp/drl
January 24, 2000 -- We are still plugging away on
catching up on our old stuff and getting new stuff done on time! Today's
tasks were to go through 900 emails that we had received that hadn't been
answered! I got them all done! Many of you received an email from me
today, and we forwarded lots of stuff to Danny White for inclusion
in the lists. There are a few emails I still have to work through, but we
are rolling! Another LONG time holdup has been our distribution of free
Tee Shirts to those folks to won our "Tee Shirts for Info" contests
in 1999. With Y2K behind us,
we've had time to dig in and get the names of the people who supplied the
most contributions. We've almost finished sorting the names. More info is
available at out FREE STUFF page. Check
that in a few days. This next one is so late that it's laughable, but the
info was so good that I couldn't pass it up. When Danny White wrote his
Top Ten Funny Cars story two years ago, he invited readers to submit their
alternate lists. Contributor David Hapgood answered the challenge,
but his email languished in my overloaded inbox for YEARS. I have saved it
for your reading pleasure. Gee, by now, it will be new to David, too!
Check out David's lists at Danny's Corner,
then send us YOUR favorite Funny Car lists! I'll try not to wait 30
months before posting them! Well, somehow it is 3:00 AM again and I can't
get them to change the starting time at work, so I'd better wrap this up
and load it to the server. See ya soon! bp/drl
January 23, 2000 -- We are busily trying to catch
up now that Y2K is a thing of the past. We added about 200 new links to
our links
page. We also redid our advertising page
to explain it more clearly. Today we updated our 2000
heads up racing calendar! Check it out for great drag racing action.
We still need to add a lot more match races (and maybe we'll even do
national events this year). Track owners and promoters -- get those
schedules to us at bilden@draglist.com!
Denise has created about 60 Team Draglist
pages! I will review them tomorrow and try to get most of them up online.
The Drag Census we are running on the first page has totally amazed me. An
honest 65 PERCENT of our readers are drag racers themselves!
Unreal! Drag racing fans make up about 18 percent, and the rest trail
off... It's great to know we all practice what we love (and the rest of us
enjoy watching you do it!) Well, it's 4:10 AM, so let me go grab a few
hours' sleep, then I will be back at it. I want to check each page on the
site by tomorrow night. See ya then! bp/drl
January 5, 2000 -- HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
The shackles of Y2K are gone -- we came through with flying
colors -- so I am hoping to be able to devote more time to my family AND
my racing family! Look for big updates this year. We have new info coming
in a few days. We are going to conduct a series of polls of Draglist readers
this year, just to see who we are and what we like! The first poll in the
Drag Racing List Year 2000 Drag Census is located on the Home
Page. Fill it out and let's see who we are! We are also building
the TEAM Draglist pages right now! Look for
them soon! See ya! bp/drl
