So i finally had to help our web hoster solve the problem.  That being the 2 primary dns servers serving this domain name had conflicting records.  They have it resolved now, and it seems to be working so far.  But with the continued problems with the site and chronically poor help from our own users with our submissions, I’m just getting tired of it all.  Sorry.  But we make this stuff for all to see, and we occasionally ask for help and rarely get it.  We don’t ask for help because we need it, but because we just want to get you involved.  Wouldn’t you like to be in one of our videos?  You can help play a part in our next project, but no one wants to volunteer.  Well, thats ok.  Maybe i’ll just step away, leave it to Alan or somebody and see what they can do with it for a while.

Ok, i’m not sure what the hell’s going on.  The web host is moving some sites to new servers, and earlier today i posted some info about that problem.  Then later today, the post that i made disappeared, and the entire board went back to week old data.  i posted there on the forums that there was some posts lost, and now i come back and the data thats supposed to be here is here.  I just wish they’d make up their mind. I hope it stays like it is right now, although we would lose any posts made during the day today.

Not to mention all our other problems, this is beginning to really piss me off.  The data we had running on earlier today lost the C3 trip report pictures jonathan and alan posted, but i do believe they’re back now with the right data.

Sorry for the trouble this morning, but our latest trip pictures to Carowinds from Jonathan and from Alan helped to push our site over our bandwidth limit again. To compound the problem, our web hoster has changed servers and some people were seeing old website information. It caused the ip addresses of the website to switch and the DNS information had to be propogated out to the internet. For instance, a weeks worth of forum posts were missing because you were stuck seeing the old server while others were seeing the new sever. Should all be resolved now. Maybe we should look into a donation button, or sell some more t-shirts to help resolve the bandwidth problem.

In other news, we greatly appreciate the songs that were submitted at our last reader request post.  Many thanks to reader Ethan Rogers who submitted a song, and to Sue and Barbara also, although Sue and Barbara are already official whootah members, and we really  expected all our members to contribute.  However, as usual that was not the case.  Keep up the good work guys.

Apparently, Mr. Hawkins of CarowindsConnection.Com has fallen on good fortune thanks to a nice relative and will have some extra dough to pump up his awesome site!  Read about the new changes and the story!  CLICK HERE!

Based on the previous smashing success of our past submission request, I have decided yet again to ask our loyal viewers to send in something. This time, we want you to make up some lyrics to a song about whootah. It can be spoofing an already existing song, or it can be a brand new song. Our talented team of whootah.com judges we’ll pick the best one and we’ll perform it, and throw the resulting video up on the website! See some examples i’m going to make up right off the top of my head:

whootah whootah is the site

when Phil shows his ass in that putt putt video

I am blinded by the sight

Please send them in as quick as possible, we have several upcoming events, such as Carowinds Opening Day on March 25, and we want to get a head start on the season! Just make a new comment to this post with your lyrics! Thanks again! – Phil

The Whootah Crew is busy preparing a new batch of videos to be released on the site soon!  We have at least 5 or more that will be prepared and posted in the next few weeks.  Additionally, the Taking Care of John’s House II movie poster and expanded movie trailer will be out soon as well!

The annual Whootah.Com party is now scheduled to take place on February 18th!  We didn’t receive ANY response to our “submit a whootah comment video” post

You all made Phil cry and I’m the one who had to put up with his blubbering!  You should all be ashamed of yourselves.  With the new party date, we want to extend the deadline to 2/10/2006.  Please see the original linkto get the details and PLEASE, WE ARE BEGGING YOU SEND SOMETHING!!!!  Thanks!

Many exciting events are being announced for 2006 and the Whootah Crew wants to meet and greet everyone this year.  Please make yourself a friend and introduce yourself if you spot one of us in the parks or at an event this year!  Some of the events you can catch us at include:

Carowinds Opening Day
Volcanomania! at PKD
Holiwood Nights at HW
Rumblefest at Beech Bend
Spring Fling at SOG (tentative)
C3 at Carowinds
Night of Thunder at Dollywood
and others

ALSO….
If you haven’t joined our Forums, Do it!  Join in the conversation and planning!  Whootah does more than just Theme Parks.  We are all about hanging out and having a good time with friends at lots of places and events.  Join our mailing list!  We plan to start utilizing this feature to keep you informed of activities, Videos, site updates, etc.  The link to join is right below the search box on the main page.  Also, send us suggestions, comments, insults, whatever.

One other thing… please go HERE and let us know what you think about Whootah.Com having a PodCast?  Yea, we are looking to jump on the bandwaggon.  I assure you though, it certainly won’t be like Coasterradio or In The Loop!

I do like these shows though so be sure to check them out!

Finally, thanks to everyone who visits the site. We hope your having fun and come back often!

Oh yea….  WHOOTAH!

Whootah members will be attending the Volcanomania event at PKD on April 8th!
You can follow the discussion here.

This event is sponsored by CoasterZombies.Com

WHOOTAH!

Whootah members will be attending Holiday World’s
“Holiwood Nights” coaster event!  See the official flyer HERE and read about it on Whootah.Com HERE!

Yea, I said it. Not happy holidays or anything such generic. To get you in the whootah spirit, be sure to listen to some of our own version of Christmas classic tunes, Let it Snow and Winter Wonderland!

(parental discretion advised)

Whootah.com is nearing it’s 2nd anniversary in January 2006. Since the official launch of whootah.com January 24, 2004, we have over 30 videos under our name. In 2003, we started making videos, and horded them until our release party Jan 24 of the following year. We hosted a get together at Alans house, invited a bunch of people and watched all our videos up to date. We even made an introduction video for those unfamiliar with whootah.com. We performed various skits, read letters from our fans, and generally just made up stuff to waste time. In 2005 we also had a party, but didnt do much but watch all the existing videos. This year, we want to do another party where we’ll unveil a new anniversary video. We need You to help!

Based on the previous success of our last user submission request, we’ve decided to do it all over again. If you’ve visited whootah.com, we want to know what you think of it. Good, bad, funny, serious i don’t care. We want your praise, hatred, nonsense, just you being you. Or you with friends, or whatever you want to do. But about whootah.com. Tell us how it’s changed your life, made you loose your girlfriend(s), got you fired at work, enhanced your size… whatever!

Make a short video clip, 10 seconds to 1 minute long. Keep the file size small by using mpg format or something similar. By small, i mean dont use just avi. Thats too big. But dont compress it to a 1mb file with realplayer either. I’d expect a minimum 10 second clip to be around 30mb. (guessing) 1 minute would be substantially higher, like 200mb or more maybe. If you cant figure this out, you can just burn and mail a dvd or cd with your avi on it. (we’d appreciate that as it’s better quality, but we don’t expect it)

Say what you want about whootah.com, just keep it pg-13. Send it to us, and we’ll throw it into a segment of our video. At our anniversary party we’ll all watch the video. Dont worry, we’ll also post the anniversary video on the website for everyone else to see. How to send to us?? Contact me at radial@mindspring.com. I’ll give you a ftp site, username and password to use to upload your file. If you prefer to mail a disc in i’ll tell you the mailing address.

What do you get? To be in our video. Thats all we can afford. We’ll watch the video at our unveiling party and also post it on the website. You’ll be a part of whootah.com history! Besides, what else do you have to lose?

Deadline – Sunday, January 8, 2006!!!