A few housekeeping items associated with the Goodboys Nation weblog I’ve been meaning to get to:

The Great White Shank finally discards dial-up and enters the world of high-speed internet! All I can say is w.o.w. – now I know why we got this rockin’ Dell XPS 400 back in May. I can safely say its performance lives up to its reputation. BTW, my e-mail contact will stay the same (through AT&T) as they offer a very nice $6-a-month service for customers who don’t have access to their own DSL service but want to retain their AT&T e-mail and personal web pages (which I use for the Goodboys-only section). A good deal.

Given this weblog’s association with Blogs About Hosting, Goodboys Nation is proud to be included in their new “Blogs About Buddies” blogroll provided to all their customers. Blogs About is a very fine web-hosting company whose design and support services I can’t say enough about – and you’ll see by the number of “buddies” that I’m not alone in that assessment. The “Buddies” group is quite a diverse and eclectic collection of weblogs, and I invite you to check them out.

Of course, one of the benefits of being included in “Blogs About Buddies” is the increased exposure this site is getting. To that end, I’d like to welcome those who have found Goodboys Nation via Just My Garden (a gardening blog), Uptown Girls (a fashion blog), Domesticated Diva (kinda like a blogging Home & Garden Show!), Blogs for Rudi (supporting a Rudi Giuliani Presidential run), Elections Blog (anticipating the 2008 Presidential sweepstakes), and American Bride (a wedding resource blog). Thanks for coming, everyone. I hope you enjoy what we do here at the Nation; feel free to leave a comment (positive or negative) about what you see here.

My friend AZ rapper Dollar Bill’s website was down and got snapped up by the Go Daddy thieves, but he assures me he’ll be up again soon as soon as he can get his files transferred and rebuilt under his new internet provider.

There’s still time to join my blog-friend Rob in guest-blogging here at the Nation while I’m on vacation from Sept. 24 through Oct. 2. It’s a perfect way to try this blogging thing out on your own, bring more exposure to your own site, or simply write about your interests. And don’t worry – the WordPress software is VERY easy to use. If you’re interested, please leave a comment below or drop me a line at darichard@att.net.