"Make A Donation" button added
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:05 pm
I've had several requests over the last year: people want to send me money to help support this site's forums.
I have mixed feelings about this.
Background of this site: I discovered the Maxima LD28 in 1994, when I spotted one in the parking lot of the US Bank in Woodburn, Ore. At the time, I was driving a Chevrolet G30 (1T van) with a diesel engine, but I wanted something smaller and a Wagon and not a GM product and probably not a Four unless it had a Turbo (ie not a VW but possibly a Peugeot). I hung around and badgered the owner of the Maxima Diesel Wagon in the parking lot when he came out of the bank, and he told me he liked his fine.
For those youngin's reading this, in 1994 there wasn't a lot to the internet, in a web-page sense, and I was still using an analog modem and BBS software to get around. Over the next two years, I looked hard for a Maxima diesel Wagon, and when I finally bought my '82 Wagon (which, as of Aug08 I still own), I wrote about it on BBSs, Usenet, everywhere -- a lot.
Over the years, the internet grew, and first DejaNews and later Google archived all the Usenet postings back to antiquity and indexed them. Gradually, I began receiving email from folks who became interested in Nissan diesels in general and the LD28 in particular. When the volume of emails on Nissan diesels achieved a certain threshold, in self-defense I got some software to run a forums setup, installed it on a long weekend, and this site was "born". That was Nov-05. That's the short history of the origin of this site.
Some of you have been, ah, insistent, about making monetary contributions. Personally, I'd prefer technical writing contributions (esp. in the area of improving the LD28/Maxima FAQ, and starting a companion SD/720 FAQ), but some folks would rather throw money at me, so I'm giving in capitulating complying with your wishes in this matter. To this end, I have added a "Make a Donation" button at the very bottom of the pages. It takes you to PayPal (so they tell me) where you can pick your amount.
I am, however, going to go on running this site as though I have no obligation to anyone whatsoever. If I get pissed off and decide to kill it, I will, and I won't care how many houses your donations have bought. On that basis, please only donate for perceived value up to the present, not for the future, because the future is uncertain (so eat dessert first!).
I have given this a little bit of thought. I like recognition, I imagine others do too. I am going to list every person who donates in a sorted list below, in descending order of aggregate donation. Put another way, of all people who donate, the person who donates the most -- in aggregate (total) -- is listed first. Thus, the list order can change. Please do not "eBay" me with multiple $1 donations to see if you can nudge your name to the top, it will only annoy me and the pig will enjoy it, OK?
Making a donation is absolutely not required. I am keeping this site up because I think it's fun to get a lot of people together and form a community -- virtual or otherwise -- of excited folks around a single general topic. I've participated in other online communities since my first modem in 1992, so I've seen some ups and downs, and I have had remarkably little trouble running this one -- which is the way I want to keep it. If the work outweighs the fun factor, I stop -- and someone else can prop it up.
If you wish to opt-out of the donors listing, PM me before you donate.
If you landed here because you just donated via PayPal, your username will be added to this list -- just not immediately; it takes me some time to catch up.
========== CONTRIBUTING DONORS HALL OF FAME LIST BEGIN================
(In descending order of total cumulative donated)
goglio704
carimbo
philip
cseger1
plenzen
Pascal
fud2468
rlaggren
plenzen
Midnightz
Nissan_Ranger
STOPBATH777
after oil
TDI_Joe
cab
vicmason
gromit
ANGRYLANCE
Shagbark
AStevens
dieseldorf
Duaneclark
pctekky22
========== CONTRIBUTING DONORS HALL OF FAME LIST END ==================
Thanks for your support.
I have mixed feelings about this.
Background of this site: I discovered the Maxima LD28 in 1994, when I spotted one in the parking lot of the US Bank in Woodburn, Ore. At the time, I was driving a Chevrolet G30 (1T van) with a diesel engine, but I wanted something smaller and a Wagon and not a GM product and probably not a Four unless it had a Turbo (ie not a VW but possibly a Peugeot). I hung around and badgered the owner of the Maxima Diesel Wagon in the parking lot when he came out of the bank, and he told me he liked his fine.
For those youngin's reading this, in 1994 there wasn't a lot to the internet, in a web-page sense, and I was still using an analog modem and BBS software to get around. Over the next two years, I looked hard for a Maxima diesel Wagon, and when I finally bought my '82 Wagon (which, as of Aug08 I still own), I wrote about it on BBSs, Usenet, everywhere -- a lot.
Over the years, the internet grew, and first DejaNews and later Google archived all the Usenet postings back to antiquity and indexed them. Gradually, I began receiving email from folks who became interested in Nissan diesels in general and the LD28 in particular. When the volume of emails on Nissan diesels achieved a certain threshold, in self-defense I got some software to run a forums setup, installed it on a long weekend, and this site was "born". That was Nov-05. That's the short history of the origin of this site.
Some of you have been, ah, insistent, about making monetary contributions. Personally, I'd prefer technical writing contributions (esp. in the area of improving the LD28/Maxima FAQ, and starting a companion SD/720 FAQ), but some folks would rather throw money at me, so I'm giving in capitulating complying with your wishes in this matter. To this end, I have added a "Make a Donation" button at the very bottom of the pages. It takes you to PayPal (so they tell me) where you can pick your amount.
I am, however, going to go on running this site as though I have no obligation to anyone whatsoever. If I get pissed off and decide to kill it, I will, and I won't care how many houses your donations have bought. On that basis, please only donate for perceived value up to the present, not for the future, because the future is uncertain (so eat dessert first!).
I have given this a little bit of thought. I like recognition, I imagine others do too. I am going to list every person who donates in a sorted list below, in descending order of aggregate donation. Put another way, of all people who donate, the person who donates the most -- in aggregate (total) -- is listed first. Thus, the list order can change. Please do not "eBay" me with multiple $1 donations to see if you can nudge your name to the top, it will only annoy me and the pig will enjoy it, OK?
Making a donation is absolutely not required. I am keeping this site up because I think it's fun to get a lot of people together and form a community -- virtual or otherwise -- of excited folks around a single general topic. I've participated in other online communities since my first modem in 1992, so I've seen some ups and downs, and I have had remarkably little trouble running this one -- which is the way I want to keep it. If the work outweighs the fun factor, I stop -- and someone else can prop it up.
If you wish to opt-out of the donors listing, PM me before you donate.
If you landed here because you just donated via PayPal, your username will be added to this list -- just not immediately; it takes me some time to catch up.
========== CONTRIBUTING DONORS HALL OF FAME LIST BEGIN================
(In descending order of total cumulative donated)
goglio704
carimbo
philip
cseger1
plenzen
Pascal
fud2468
rlaggren
plenzen
Midnightz
Nissan_Ranger
STOPBATH777
after oil
TDI_Joe
cab
vicmason
gromit
ANGRYLANCE
Shagbark
AStevens
dieseldorf
Duaneclark
pctekky22
========== CONTRIBUTING DONORS HALL OF FAME LIST END ==================
Thanks for your support.