[Joe]

Well most of you know (or not...) that I sorta gave up on ProCooling nearly 2 years ago. Well not really gave up, just got busy with other stuff. In that time pH did a pretty damn nice job with stuff being posted, reader counts going up and up, it was nice.

Then WoW happened (for pH and like a billion other geeks), and the stupid software we used to manage the site just became too much of a burden and everything sorta stopped on the site. The brakes really got hit like 6 months ago or so. Since then reader counts have dropped to pretty much the lower levels we have seen ever, the site hasn’t been updated (last article is nearly 2 years old), and the forums were left to be the sole place the site was still maintained.

Well Shit...

My other ventures are over now, I have some spare time, and since I walked away from ProCooling I have learned quite a bit about business, web design, web programming, etc...

So instead of just talking I am pretty motivated to get ProCooling back rocking. With pH's testing prowess, My sarcastic self deprecating wit and attention to detail, I am all about moving ProCooling back into the way it was in the previous years (when we actually did work).

Heck even Unaclocker is going to write an article!

We need staff, we need sponsors, we need to find where the cooling scene really is now. I know its pretty much 95% mainstream to water cool now it seems, so the Niche shouldn’t be that small anymore. But on the flip side, now the NEED for this kind of cooling is also going down rapidly. Overclocking isn’t a primary need for many people because the current high end machines are very under worked most of the time.

But silent cooling is something that becomes more and more important when it comes to HTPC's (and powerful HTPC's at that), Home PC's in smaller cases that need to be cooled effectively yet silently, etc...

As far as the website goes, one of the key things that I am pushing for is making the website more about the community than the people who run the site. As with the forums pH, Brian, and myself are hardly the focal points of stuff in the forum, we are more just the care takers of the zoo.

Unlike before - I am pretty motivated to get this thing rocking again, get some new sponsors, get some new light on this old site (in tech site timelines, its pretty old now going on 6 years come December) . We are looking for people to come onboard to help out, we are looking for moderators for the forums (for the workBlogs and such when they come online), and overall just people to help spread the word.

I know we are seen as assholes by the less than smart in the world.. and since there are LOTS of stupid people, it sort of alienates us... but **** it theres more smart ones out there than stupid ones... I HOPE!.