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Monday, September 13, 2010

This Week at ADB, Inc., 5-11 September 2010

Steve Cole reports:

The weather this week remained cool, and we got some much needed rain on Wednesday. The Spam Storm kicked up a little, with about 400 per day hitting SVC's computer.

It's a "normal" week at ADB as work continues on several projects, but there is no imminent deadline (the release of Y3 being two weeks away). The BBS started acting up on Monday, but Jean figured out that the problem was an expired cookie and was able to get it running normally again. The staff meetings on Tuesday and Friday discussed delaying Marines to next year because of the expensive color printing that is needed for the maps.

Steve Cole was busy this week, doing a wide variety of things. He got the press release for Y3 and Alien Armada done (Mike sent it out on Monday), and Communique and Hailing Frequencies done (Joel sent those on Friday). He continued the process of updating the Wall of Honor, completing the audit of records from CL#10-CL#19. Steve performed in three videos that Mike shot, and Mike got two older videos and one of the new ones uploaded. Steve Cole read more of Y3, wrote a Hydran history article for that product, and worked on Star Fleet Marines: Assault. Steve Cole and Mike West selected the contents for an FC Early Years ship pack for e23.

Steven Petrick pressed onward with Y3, completing the ship descriptions through the WYN cluster by Saturday afternoon.

Leanna got caught up on orders and accounting, uploaded some stuff to e23, and got the first Kindle book read to upload.

Mike Sparks completed the restocks and minis check-in. He and Joel reorganized the Café Press store so that you can actually see what's there, and began a process to make the images we have already uploaded available on more products.

Jean Sexton is getting really into the swing of her new duty as Marketing Director, and has declared that all news must be reported on all venues (the website, BBS, Forum, Star Fleet Alert, Facebook, Communique, Captain's Log, and Hailing Frequencies) plus on any non-ADB websites she can find.

The entire staff took a moment to reflect on the events of 9/11, some nine years ago, when everything changed for the USA and for the world.