No. You are unlikely ever to be this famous.

Local guy Ryan Roberts and iWindsurf.com are looking for hi-rez pics for a print ad. Ryan thought this might be a good opportunity for Atlanta to show off its better side. See this forum post for details.

What an Olympic event should look like - athletes from all nations.

Petitionto Keep Windsurfing in the Olympics

For those of you who missed Chris Voith's forum post last week, the ISAF has voted to eliminate windsurfing as an Olympic sport in 2016. While kiting has been added, this should not be seen as an us vs. them issue as both board sports are among the most (if not THE most) technically advanced, athletic, popular and economically accessible sailing sports in the world. Ideally, both sports should represent sailing as an Olympic event as they both embody the ideal characteristics of Olympic competition.

Apparently, the ISAF annual meeting can overturn this ill-advised decision. Read more »

Umm.. wrong one percent. Gosh, this is awkward.


Now you are going to tell me this isn't Jacob Marley?

I am part of the one percent. Well, most of the time I'm not but right now I am. Without me you have nothing! Nothing!

Wait, you know to which one percent I'm referring, right? No, this has nothing to do with Occupy Hatteras. This is quite different. It's the One percent principle which

.. states that the number of people who create content on the Internet represents approximately 1% (or less) of the people actually viewing that content (for example, for every person who posts on a forum, generally about 99 other people are viewing that forum but not posting).

The "90–9–1" version of this rule states that 1% of people create content, 9% edit or modify that content, and 90% view the content without contributing.

While I'm the one percent here, I am the 90-99% in most of my internet travels. For some web sites, I prefer to lurk and enjoy the contributions of others, many of whom are quite clever, literate and put forth interesting ideas. For others, say, news sites or Youtube, the audience participation seems to be more centered around those who SHOUT THE LOUDEST yet almost invariably have the most ill-informed and inflexible opinions. If I even read those comments, I feel like I've been wallowing in mud or worse and just want to wash it all off me.

At this point, you are probably expecting the "we need you so step forward" speech. Wait for it, wait....wait for it... Read more »

At least we didn't have to get our feet wet. Douglas MacArthur returns to the Phillipines in 1944.

I've finally completed the transition away from our old web hosting service. The site was flaky today as I sorted a myriad of DNS issues. Don't know what DNS is? Apparently, I don't know much more than you but enough to be dangerous to the safety of the intertubes. Of course, that it took way too long for a significant issue to be sorted out was a major factor in the move but the site seems to load much faster now, as well. Read more »

You try to barefoot and someone throws a windsurfer at you.

If you've been unable to make it out the past few days, watching the trees bend is probably driving you a little insane. You can see the wind. You can feel the wind. You can imagine skipping over the waves. You can imagine driving throught that jibe (well, maybe you can't do that yet...). But you can't get there, to the beach, to the parking lot, to the grassy area where you rig. You are stuck. You have an appointment, a client, a responsibility. Read more »