Frankie Lee is a former Austin rower who raced at the 1998 Amsterdam Gay Games.

His 'thing' is sending out birthday emails to a long list of folks, naming somebody's birthday and inviting everyone to wish them a happy b-day.

After today, Frankie Lee is now retired. We just spent 8 hours adding countless hooks, plugins, and modifications to the All Oars forum that we hope will enrich the user experience by showing lots of dashboards, bells, and whistles... maybe too much.

New stuff:

A happy birthday banner will appear for steveo25 if he logs on next week. By the way, when is steveo25's birthday? He's still marked as Dec 31 in the GLRF database ... Well, if he did have a birthday next week, he would get an email from the GLRF Team and the GLRF Worldwide Community, wishing him a great day! Sorry Frankie Lee but it is time for you to take up lawn bowling or move to LA and ... serve your master :rolleyes:

Other great new stuff includes:

 

• a 'who has a birthday' sidebar list with, of course, the little profile boxes so you can take a look at each of those folks are behind their onlineid's
  
• a calendar event sidebar list with a hover-to-see-what-it's-all-about feature
  
• a 'recent blog entries' sidebar list so you can read this with your first cup of java every morning
  
• an announcement pane in the sidebar
  
• we just added gravatars so if you're registered, you will see your pic on the forum
  
• a 'who has read' and a 'who is reading a topic right now' sidebar list
  
• a 'who has been online' summary for the past 24 hours
  
• a 'recently added topics' sidebar list
  
• a 'top viewed topics in the forum' sidebar list
  
• a bookmark/email this topic feature
  

So much stuff that we hope it will bring members back more often.

So what are you waiting for? Start your blog today and we can all suggest ideas on how Frankie Lee should spend his time, now that GLRF is sending out birthday wishes to all rowers, coaches, coxies, and race officials...