Hobo has been on the server as long as anyone, but his old pc finally crapped out and he's been offline FOREVER. I talked to him last night and he's beginning to collect parts for a new machine. Here's his skin:

We have some good ppl that make and use some epic skins, so why not show them? In case any of you didn't know, you can always look at someone's skin by typing this in your address bar: http://www.minecraft.net/skin/[username].png. To start the series off, take a look at the skin I've been using forever:

You would be able to access that at http://www.minecraft.net/skin/surfrock66.png. While we're at it, here's my wife's (MrsPinkin) skin:

The problem with an epic castle is that it takes epic time. For example...this is like 2 weeks of work just on excavation...and it has like 40 more to dig downwards!

1.4 is out! Read about it here. What does this mean for us? ALL COMMANDS AND PLUGINS ARE BROKEN. Here's the order of events:

1. Bukkit will need to be updated. Timeframe unknown, ask them, they assume hours or days
2. Updated bukkit will have to be installed...that's at the mercy of our server.
3. Each plugin will be tested and will likely be somewhat broken. As they're fixed, we'll activate them
4. Once plugins are active, we need to make sure our configs aren't broke.

So that's the deal, no need to keep asking, clearly most of the wait is on the end of the coders and we're at their mercy. As soon as something is available we'll get it goin.