Yesterday morning, Steve Irwin whom many know as “The Crocodile Hunter” was killed while filming a documentary off of the Great Barrier Reef.

Like most other people, I was saddened to hear about his death, as I enjoyed watching his shows. Though, I always expected something like this to happen eventually (though I would have bet on a snake or a crock). His silly antics made his shows fun to watch, but also helped make learning about animals extremely fun.

Animal Planet will air a special tribute to Steve tonight at 6:00 PM EST.

Hope everyone had a great Labor Day holiday weekend. I spent mine in Nashville visiting family, and laboring. No really… I helped my grandfather, and my mother’s boyfriend work on his shed for two days.

We replaced the siding on one side of the shed, a small part of the flooring, and rebuilt the door. It looked pretty good by the time we were done, now it’s ready to be painted…. a project that I’ll have no part in. :p

We drove back from Nashville yesterday afternoon, which put us back in time for the wife and I to watch Knoxville’s annual Boomsday fireworks show.

Wow… things are starting to move pretty fast now. It was just a few short weeks ago when I posted that the TechRelated.com Forums had hit 3,000 posts. Well, yesterday afternoon the forums hit the 5,000 posts mark. Considering how small TechRelated.com currently is, I think that’s a pretty major accomplishment.

Thanks to all of the members that support TechRelated.com and are helping shape it into an excellent community. This wouldn’t be possible without any of you!

Just wanted to post an update seeing as I haven’t done so in quite some time. The TechRelated.com Forums are moving along. I’m pretty satisfied with where they are so far… if you take a look at them, you’ll probably notice that they look quite different than most other forums that are powered by Invision Power Boards.

I’ve taken a lot of time to modify the forums, so that they are fast, easy to use, and yet still provide me with the flexibility that will be needed to expand in the future. How will he current theme port to the next version of IPB? Well, we’ll find out when ever it is released.

A big thanks right now to TechRelated.com member “lego” who created a number of images that are being used in the current TechRelated.com Forum theme. With his help, the forums took a big leap forward.

If you haven’t registered yet, I’d highly encourage you to. It’s free, and there are a lot of interesting things going on… and if that wasn’t enough of a reason, we also running a referral contest where you can earn prizes just for getting other people to register and post (see official contest information).