Trying to get back to it...

Well, the ideal was to do a column each week, probably on Sunday. I was off for a few weeks, but am trying to get back in the habit of writing something each Sunday.

So, here we are. I am not greatly pleased about the progress my team has made to get the "members-only" section up. We seem to be stuck trying to figure out the authentication. I am close to just saying, "whatever" and letting people get in with me being the moderator and approving everything. It would actually make things kinda easy at the moment.

In the meantime, there has been some things happening on the Yahoo Groups. Cap'n Billy has kept them stirred up, and Eric D. actually went in and tried to defend him. I think it wasn't quite successful, but we'll see how the membership responds.

The NMRA Budget Meeting will be held Oct 20 in Cincinnati. All the Dept heads will come together and try to put together something which give us some revenue. This will be my first, and I am looking forward to it to see how things try to work internally. I have some ideas about what should happen...we'll see if they do.

I've posted the September Prescar and Bulletin, and will be posting the August AP report online soon. I'll let folks know via Twitter when that is done. We are also now using #NMRA on the Twitter feeds to see if we can get up the totem pole in usage. Doubt it, but at least we have our own thing.

There's been a new update to the EHB, updates to the National Train Show, and some others. We have updated the Train Show to be more compliant with the overall branding effort, as well as to rewrite the page to be XHMTL compliant. It now works in all browsers except, of course, for IE 8. But really, does anybody really use that?

I also took all the numbers off of the Pioneers section in the Honors section. We all agreed they weren't necessary.

Stay tuned....doing some good stuff behind the scenes. Hope to have something for you in next two weeks.

Thanks!