It has come to my attention that some users may not be able to use the site header.  I haven’t been able to reproduce yet but I will get it sorted ASAP.  Sorry for any inconvenience!
Update: I believe these issues are now resolved. Please let me know if you are still having any trouble!

I have been getting a huge deluge of SPAM on the discussion board.  Today I spent probably over an hour deleting SPAM accounts.  Sometimes it isn’t always obvious what is a SPAM account since they have managed to get into Gmail/Hotmail/etc.  I went through and looked up each accounts IP address and if the country of origin was non-USA I deleted the account.  If by some chance someone here registered whilst out of the country please do accept my apologies and re-register.
To combat new SPAM accounts I have altered the …

Greetings neighbors.  Just wanted to let you all know I have finally sorted out the upgrades to both the blog and discussion forums.  Please let me know if you have any trouble with either.

I tried to upgrade the site to WordPress 2.7 this morning but was greeted with a blank screen of doom.  I suspect we have a plugin that was incompatible with the new version of the software.  So until I can sort out what was going wrong I am going to keep us on 2.6 for now.  Sorry for the downtime if you were checking out the site, everything should be back in order now.  If you are having any trouble though please feel free to email me at info@dekalbcrimewatch.org.

Please note that the email address for contacting me has changed because of the server move.  For any watch-related emails please direct them to info@dekalbcrimewatch.org (note .org not .com).

Today a number of changes were rolled out for the website. This includes a move to a faster, dedicated server and some enhancements.

Greetings all.  I have been having issues with our current hosting provider and will be moving all of my websites to a new dedicated hosting environment.  This should address the performance issues and unreliability of this server.  I have a number of sites that must be moved so I may not get to this site for a week or so yet.  Because of the influx or additional work this creates for me it also means the remaining enhancements I had planned for this site (calendar and skinning of the forums) …

Today we covered (more or less) the following:
Flamingo Fridays! – Get to know your neighbors at a random (volunteered) location every (hopefully) Friday. Enjoy a beer and enjoy the nice weather basking in the glory of the mighty flamingo! Okay so we may not find a flamingo but hopefully we can get this going.
Meeting protocol – Who needs yet another long meeting? Relax, grab a beverage and know it won’t be going on all night. Going forward we will always try to have a set (okay …

Thanks to everyone for coming out this morning. If you weren’t able to attend here is a brief recap…
Incidents
The only incidents seem to have been related to noise late in the evening and possibly an occurrence of mail theft. So, overall things have been going great with no break-ins or rampant mail theft.
The Big News is…
Both Don and Mark will be moving so they will not be able lead the Neighborhood Watch any longer. Don will be available for neighborhood cleanups and such …

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