Every time I read thru this post my

mind starts to drift back to the very beginning of it all; the many turns in the road; the major crossroads; the odd

treachery here and there. I'm wondering if I could even put a date on the very beginning of the first forum

anymore. It was a wild idea back when I had a lot of free time on my hands. I can still remember the format; a

very crude forum application, hosted off-domain somewhere. I was a Mac man as always back then and can even

remember the popular browser application for the Mac platform. Anyone remember "Netscape"? The internet had just

arrived in Japan back then and it rapidly consumed my entire life.

OK, more later............