As part of our "New Stuff" bill, [wizard] and I have been hard at work these past couple weeks of January to create some new things.
Currently, I've sparked in him the idea to work on some internet tunneling setup for filesharing through a proxy-routed network interface, and he's done an awesome job of creating the proxy and such for his first breakthrough with the idea. When we get it released, it'll be a breakthrough in internet technology, started right here on tsn. More about that though on thepizzy.net/blog - look for Project: Tormachi in the coming days.
Another project we're working on (soon to be me moreso than him) is a web-based chat client for the-spot.net, that interfaces with our IRC chat room, and possibly with Firefox. We'll announce something soon (for those that haven't heard of it yet) for use with Firefox, and chatting...which would be one more reason to get the FireFox browser from the MySpot page, if you have not gotten it yet.
There was also an announcement about
http://www.tsnlocal.net on thepizzy.net/blog over the downtime. I'll be putting up some new links on the MySpot page for reference to these new sites and stuff, so people can stay up-to-date with the tsn Development.
Also, there is a new MySpot page in the works, as this one is starting to look a bit crowded (to me at least), and things need to be smoothed out a bit.
The re-structure of some of the site's mini-sites (i.e. beta.tsnV and wzup) will be taking place over the next couple months as well.
This is a busy year for the-spot.net, as most of our ideas are finally entering development and we have the tools, knowledge, and money to make some things happen.
The FreeformFrog.com is back up on its new server - there are still some issues with getting the SSL to work on it, mainly because I don't think I'm allowed to have SSL unless I have a business account and dedicated server IP for the site. I'll look into it more. But most of the important money information takes place on Paypal, and they have an SSL encryption.
For more behind-the-scenes info, check out
http://www.thepizzy.net/blog ...as most of our tsn talks happen at the pizzy (my apartment). For final updates, keep checking back here. (And for those that are worried about my tsn Journal, don't be worried, it'll be the repository for my "personal life"....there's not been any drama in it, just busy with work/school and the occassional chat with BK.