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March 5, 2002: WELCOME to the all new Passions in Poetry web site!

Yea, I know. It doesn't look all that new. Our design hasn't changed a great deal, I'll admit, but just about everything under the hood is brand spanking new.

For example, every program that we started with three years ago has been tossed in the trash can and rewritten from scratch. There wasn't really a whole of choice. We never expected to get this big, and all that old software had Band-Aids on top of Band-Aids. The new software is more efficient, easier to maintain, and as you might have already noticed, it has a LOT of new features we didn't have before.

	Sending poems to a friend is easier, with the new cookies and netpoets Address Book, and you have a TON more options. Including formatting it in HTML.
	You can now create custom Greeting Cards for every single poem on the site (in addition to our special Graphical Poems, of course).
	Our Free poetry magazine, Digital Passions, can now be customized to include your favorite poetry categories. You can get it in HTML, too.
	We now have a Print Poem feature, making it easier than ever to add those favorite poems to your off-line scrap book.
	The Classical Poetry section has nearly doubled in size, and now has all the features people keep requesting - like being able to send a Classical poem to a friend, too.

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Maybe the biggest "new" thing about Passions, though, is that we have a brand new home to go with all of our new software. In fact, I'd like to take this opportunity to formally introduce our new web server, Aphrodite.

Our old server, Ceres, ran out of disk space quite a while ago (which is the main reason you haven't seen us adding new poetry), and it turned out to be more cost effective to get a new machine than to replace her hard disk with something bigger. Aphrodite has twice the MHz, three times the memory, and comes with a whopping 18 Gigabytes of hard disk, instead of the 2G we've been struggling with the last year. Lots of room for lots of new poetry!

And that bring us to the next "new" thing you can expect to see.

Our new software has been in effect since March 1, the same day we moved to Aphrodite, and the past several days have been spent putting out forest fires. In some cases, RAGING forest fires. It was not a smooth move, not with so many things changing all at once. But I think the worst is now over, and the flames have dwindled to brush fire size. Time to move forward again!

I still have a ton of submitted poetry sitting in my off-line database, and over the course of the next few weeks I'll be adding it to our on-line pages. For me, this is perhaps the most exciting thing about our move, 'cause we have some really great poetic surprises in store for you. When the backlog of poetry is posted, we will again be turning on submissions for new poetry.

And that's when I get to unveil the OTHER new surprise we have waiting in the wings.