Can I say again how cool Zaadz is? Because of the support they give us coders down in the belly of this ship I'm able to do lots of things with my modest monthly budget that I never though I would do. This weekend I took a challenge from Whole Foods Market and signed up for the electricity I use each month to be made from wind power.

Now, electricity is all mixed into the grid so no one can buy power directly from a wind farm, but by purchasing renewable energy credits through a program like Whole Foods, you're paying the premium for wind power to be competative on the power market. That means I'm making it possible for my power to have been from wind and that the demand for wind is that much higher. Whole Foods has purchased enough of these credits so that effectively ALL the power used by their stores is from wind. Likewise many other companies I support, such as White Wave, makers of Silk soymilk. 

I looked at a few electric bills and figured what my average usage is and then signed up. For me that's just $15/mo. I can't put solar panels on my condo but this is just about as good :-) 

Renewable Choice Energy - American Wind 

Where were you when the 10,000th person became a member of the Zaadz community? I was, surprise, at my computer working on the site :-) The little z is growing into a big, strong Z faster every day. 

(sorry about the downtime earlier in the evening... my bad)

I'd like to take a minute to thank Brian, Aaron, Jake, Ryan, Rob, Francois, Obi, Dave, Amanda, Matthew, Rommel, Brian David, Jim, David O, Christiana, and Jeff. This team is amazing, fun, dedicated and just oozing with fluffy love. It's a pleasure building this little oasis with you all.

And the biggest THANK YOU to users 1...10_000 (and on) for your support, enthusiasm and patience. Serving you is what we're here for. *BIG HUG*

Now go invite some friends so we can get to Z100K!

Change of course for me this week. I've been redirected in my coding. I'm now focusing on the new zPages section of the site! Aaron did a great, GREAT job pushing that out, and he's still working on it. My role is to offload as much as I can from his back, and to provide as amazing responsiveness as possible to our users. If you have any problems or suggestions related to the zPages, feel free to let me know. 

I'm very excited to be working on this new code. I think it will give me a good chance to explore some areas of our site's internal mojo that I haven't played with before. And it gives me a very nice focus, and that's always nice.