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The launch has been and uneventful affair. The day after was one of a little stress, when we noticed that site was down. Unfortunately our hosting provider in the US decided to upgrade their systems. And guess what… Yupp, Murphy was there (The Murphy who said “If anything can go wrong, it will; at the worst possible moment”) Anyway we’re up and running and growing — a steady trickle and hoping it continues that way, i,e, a steady trickle rather than a huge rush and absolute silence. Am hoping the SHAANDAAR SHOW will draw some more attention to the site…

The launch is tomorrow and the second milestone of a journey that started early 2006 (the first milestone being the approval by the managing committee on July 10). Gerry has since worked tirelessly as Chief Technology Officer, Photographer, Host, Liaison Officer and much much more. Put simply “a doer”!! The pilot has given feedback and generated enough interest for us and we can launch knowing we have more or less all the bits in place and the functionality is fine. NOW, we can focus on securing more content… and generating DISCUSSION and DEBATE. The latter was the goal for this project…

Exactly 14 days left for launch. Loads to do by way of technical, editorial and political work. Need to run the pilot starting tommorow.