"Pledge week" is over. Thanks to the generosity of our members, we now have
an "embarassment of riches".

As of a few hours ago our web space allotment went from 20 Mb to 120 Mb.

After no one expressed any interest in registering a domain with Doteasy,
which would give us an extra 100 Mb ( see http://www.doteasy.com/buddy/ ),
I asked for donations. The idea was to get a 2nd domain for the club, for
$90, which would give us 240 MB. The response was quite generous, the 1st
2 donations were for $50 each, and the next 3 put us at $150.

Since the club has no fixed expenses other that the domain and web space,
we had no use for the extra $60. So I decided to pass the hat at last
night's meeting, to see if we could get another $30. This would allow us
to get the 2nd domain AND lock in the original mnhpva.org till
2011. Despite a sparse turnout, the hat came back with $50 in it. No one
would take any back, so the extra $20 will go to something like hot
chocolate at next year's Ice Races.

Only then did Carl mention that Edina Bike and Sport would be registering
edinabike.com with Doteasy today, giving us an extra 100 Mb. This will
work out nicely. mnhpva.org will need it's registration renewed in 20
months. At that time we will use the money collected for renewing
mnhpva.org, AND registering a 2nd domain. This will give us will give us
120 Mb till April 2006, then 240 Mb, locked in till 2011. And, the
renewal dates for both domains will be the same.

Given that the site currently has about 28 Mb of content, I'm sure that 120
will last us for the next 20 months. I keep file sizes small so that those
without Broadband aren't sitting there, while large pix slowly fill their
screens. Now that we have enough space, where a larger photo would give
useful detail, I can have a "Click Here for Larger Image" Link.

I'll be looking for content. Tech articles? Got pix of how you built your
bike? Send me the pix and a narrative and I'll HTML it into a "How
To". If you can do your own HTML, all the better. This would be a great
time to build a gallery of members bikes. If you've pix of your bike,
preferably with you in the shot, contact me about sending them in.

Over the next few weeks, I'll be moving everything that had been on Scott
Richards' oddwidget.com, Dave Krafft's bitstream.net, bikesmithdesign.com,
and my old (and soon to be lost) RoadRunner space, onto the newly enlarged
mnhpva.org. If I don't find all the links that will need to be changed,
you may not be able to access all the pages. Let me know it you run into
any problems.

Mark E. Stonich
Minneapolis MN USA (612) 824-2372
Minnesota Human Powered Vehicle Assn. http://mnhpva.org
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