Today I decided I had to post somethings on my sites, it’d been a few days and if I waited any longer it would just be to long! Most of you may or may not know that Chris and I have been having some issues with our host and now our home network. Last week our sites were hacked into on three seperate occusions. We noticed that the last time that all the sites that were on the same server as us at our hosting company had also been hacked. Over 500 sites on one server completely taken over by these people. We corrected the problem and we were back up before anyone really noticed. Within the next few days the server went down completely, and according to our home router never have came back up.

Strange? Yes. We haven’t been able to pin point the problem. Currently I’m connected directly to our modem and I can access everything fine. However when I go through our Router (Netgear RangeMax) we can’t on any four of our computers access our websites. We’ve had two of our friends who are ITs look into it and they can’t figure it out. My next step will be to return our router and get a new one to see if that fixes the problem. We’ve really not had this modem for that long so it shouldn’t have problems like this. So returning it and getting another one only seems like the logical thing to do. If it’s still blocked then there’s something that’s more wrong than we thought.

In better news my buddy Bob is having one heck of a contest over on his site, BobBuskirk.com. He just launched a new layout for his site and he’s giving away some really nice prizes. Here’s a list of the prizes.

Prize #1: JohnChow.com 1 month Stripe Ad – $250 Value. This is the ad that you see on the top of JohnChow.com – Provided By John Chow.

Prize #2: Griffin iPhone Prize Pack – $185 Value. This prize pack includes 1 iTrip Auto Pilot, 1 Power Dock (2-dock), and 1 Wave Case 2 Pack. – Provided By ThinkComputers.

Prize #3: OptIn Comments WordPress Plugin – $97 Value. OptIn Comments will directly capture a reader’s name and email address from his comment on your blog and then directly send it to an email form of your choice. Then you can use your own email marketing campaign to build relationship and earn potential income. – Provided By Ian Fernando.

Prize #4: 50 Answers from BuyAnswerLinks.com – $19.99 Value. BuyAnswerLinks.com is the first of our kind, finally you can buy Yahoo! Answers or Answers.com posts at a reasonable price. Let us do the work for you in posting answers to gain leads, backlinks, and traffic. Posting Answers to questions has been a very lucrative way to market your product or website for years now. – Provided By Jon Waraas.

To Enter all you have to do is go to his blog and comment on his post (1 entry), Subscribe to his site via e-mail (1 entry), and/or you can write a blog post talking about his contest and linking back to him (5 entrys). So what are you waiting for? Go do one (or all) of the three and get entered in this contest it ends very soon!

Hopefully our router situation is resolved fairly soon and I can post without having to rearrange our office area. If you have any ideas as to what might cause this too please leave me a comment and let me know. Thanks!!

For the second year in a row Drift411 made the trek to Spartanburg, South Carolina to have this event along with the Elite Summer Nationals. If you aren’t familiar with the event it is more like a low scale Nopi event minus the bikini contest and the foam or whatever that stuff is. It consists of a car show that is inside and a sound competition outside along with a Dyno thrown in there somewhere. All the action of course is outside where we are with the Drift Action.

This years event I have to say was much much better than last years. Not only was the temperature lower which made it much more bearable but the skill of the drivers was up from last years event as well. The event went very smooth and almost painless at times. Thankfully we had more volunteers this year, I guess when you have people who actually want to help and do help it feels like that. We are so used to it being just Chris, Chad, and myself and having to do everything between the three of us that when we have help it’s like “OMG I need to do something!” LOL (Big thanks to Marty, Howard, Anthoy and Dan for helping us out it was such a tremendous help!) The event started at 10am have a short drivers meeting. The event started off with Practice runs until about 5:30pm when we started qualifing drivers for the competition. I have to say the judges had their hands full with this one. Due to time constraints (and the sun going down) we had to do a Top 8 instead of a usual Top 16. The judges had to tabulate scores for a while before coming up with the Final 8 (see pictures below). After that it was an awesome competition, fantastic driving by all the drivers really had the crowd into it. It was a great show we definitely need something to showcase the winning drivers better if we do this next year. It was dark and a little hard to see but it was something to be seen. I think someone called the Fire Department due to the amount of smoke!   It was a fantastic event check out the pictures below!

-Drivers Meeting

Top 8 Justin Lowery (i think), Andy Sapp, Doug Van Den Brink, Sammy from Tiger Racing, Chris Orsini, Justin Shaw, Adam Seaman, and Jonathan “Marty” Martin

Chris Orsini

Marty

Chris Orsini and Doug Van Den Brink talk after the show.

You can see more pictures of the event here.

Well this past weekend we made yet another trip to Atlanta for the final of the Triple Threat events. It’s always fun to see the Atlanta Drift Peeps and enjoy some tire smoke. As some of you may or may not know I am not fond of our current drift car, I’m having a hard time sliding it. I’ve begged for another car and Chris persistently tells me no learn this one. So after Chris made me really upset at the event Tracy came down to help me out. Chris was just throwing me in the car and saying drive the course when that wasn’t what I needed to learn this car. Tracy and I went down to do some donuts, funny I know but it really did help me feel the car out alot more than just trying to drift the course. For anyone out there who either is new to drifting or is just trying to learn a new setup or a new platform all together. You are having trouble with it go back to the basics it will definitely help you understand the car better.

We only were able to do that for a little bit (maybe 20-30 minutes) before some very ominous clouds accompanied by some lightening were able to be seen on the horizon. Since I had tons of stuff sitting out up at our tent and was hoping Allie wasn’t freaking out on Chad’s girlfriend Kathy who was watching her while I drove a little bit. We decided to call it a day and for me to save my money for a 240. I really want to learn the Corolla since there’s not many girls who drive them and get good with it. It is going to take some time, lots of tires and a lot of patience which I tend to run short on a lot of the time. I was getting decent (for my first time driving it on a course) with my stock 240 in just a day so I assumed that the Corolla would be equally as easy. Boy was I wrong! There’s a lot of girls starting to get into drifting and it really sucks that I’ve been involved with it for so long and am still a cruddy driver. Things happen (like babies) and plans change I won’t go into details.

I hope to have the ProjectGirlDrifter(.net) site back up soon so those ladies that are trying to start driving can have a place to come to do find other girl drivers. I had big plans for PGD and those have all been put on the back burner too, I really need to put more effort into my sites this one included, there’s still greeking everywhere and empty ad space. Don’t fear though I plan to have all my sites, this one, ProjectGirlDrifter, and FemaleRacingNews all up and going very very soon. It’s a lot of work for me but it’s all worth it in the end.

Oh and this post is brought to you today by Chris’ new iMac computer