[Update: I’m worried that there will be a little confusion about the new site, so here’s the really concise explanation of what’s going on – Neopoleon will continue to be the place where I write about my life and stuff. The new site is entirely fictional. It’s based around a company a friend of mine and I invented, and we’re going to be telling the story of this company in what we think is a new and interesting way. So, yeah – it’s about entertainment. Not teaching you, or helping you get your homework done or anything. Just a fictional company with fictional workings. And over the next two weeks, it’s going to get more and more intricate. I honestly think you’ll enjoy how it unfolds. In many ways it will seem like a traditional blogging site, but it’s going to be fiction, fiction, fiction. And it’s going to be fun. Just fun. There. Explanation over.]

It’s up. And my little coding fingers are covered in blog.

Over the past couple months, I have become something of an expert with Community Server. After our initial Lithuanian CS design team bailed on us for no better reason than having been killed, I had to take the design/customization over myself. Considering that I have this “day job” thing, it was no easy task.

I’m not kidding about our Lithuanian design team, by the way. The last email we got from them was a zip file containing all their intellectual property, like an attempt to send their work out so that it might live on through someone else, accompanied by a note:

teh ukranian s are coming they are at door no time no time you must h

And the message ended there. Our poor friend just had time to hit “Send” before he was beaten over the head with an attack-borscht.

But, deaths associated with the creation of the new site aside, like I said, the bastard’s up.

And before I send you along your pretty little way, I have a message for you. Co-author Dave wanted to say a little something, too.

From Rory:

Hi. I wanted to explain a few things about the new site so you’d have some idea of what’s going on over there. It’s a little weird, so, like, I figured I’d hold your hand and stuff:

1. The site is fiction. It’s sort of like an online book/sitcom/movie/testament to my genius/throne to myself/running commentary on my greatness.

2. It’s starting out small, but it’s going to grow over the next couple weeks, and not according to some random whim. Co-author Dave and I have been planning this for a while. We know what’s going to be posted on the site six weeks from now, for example. It’s the crap we’re going to write between now and then that has us puzzled.

3. There will be text. There will be video. There will be a podcast. There will be sister sites. It will be big.

4. It’s ad-supported. Given the cost of running the site, I’m finally breaking down and taking money for content. But, given the amount of work we’ve put into the content, I don’t really mind.

5. Features will gradually be added over the next two weeks. Just trust the Rodawgg on that. Like the Cylons in the new Battlestar Galactica, we “have a plan.”

That’s all.

From Dave:

Hi.

1. Please click on the ads so that I can eat.

From Team Panda:

Go there now. You might not understand it yet, but the story will unfold quickly over the next several days, and then you will.

Oh, yes, my little army of ad-clicking drones. You will.

Without further ado: Welcome to Panda Control.

One Last Note:

The title of this post mentions that we’re giving away a Volkswagen.

We’re not, actually.