You've missed a lot. In the past few weeks (never mind the past few months), CEG was dying and everybody was teary-eyed and saying 'bye-bye'. Then a few days later a Donations post came up and they made over $4000 in two days' time. So CEG won't die after all. Things have gotten back to semi-normal. CEG will be temporarily down for a few weeks (supposedly was supposed to start Aug. 1, but
) while they switch from the free but now almost gone line and set up a (donation-funded) new line. Please post your e-mail address in the "ALL NE-CEGers POST HERE!" topic if you want to know what's going on while the site is down.
I know I missed a lot of what happened while you were gone, but this is the most important stuff. Oh yeah, and while you were gone I finally reached 1000 posts.