Most people don’t celebrate a first birthday at the two and three quarters year mark, but I thought that since we’ve already missed two real birthdays, any excuse to eat cake is a good one. I would hope that we could celebrate this tremendous achievement of keeping a website alive and healthy for nearly three years. Come and introduce yourself, say hi, share a story, a joke, birthday wishes, whatever. The beer is cold and the tunes are good.

How It Started

MaxPower started from the idea that MaxPower was a great name, and that there were only so many great names out there. MaxPower was borne partly out of the idea of having such a great name, and partly out of learning about the web. You may be familiar with an episode of the Simpsons which featured Max Power, an alter ego of Homer Simpson.

Max Power was dynamic, decisive, uncompromising, and most importantly, stupid. See youtube.

Max Power: Kids, there’s three ways to do things. The right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way!
Bart: Isn’t that the wrong way?
Max Power: Yeah, but faster!

MaxPower the website was started with the same spirit of dynamic, decisive, and stupidity. One of the very first things published on MaxPower was pictures of the Worlds Biggest Special K, which I owned. It sure wasn’t dynamic, but it was a bold decisive claim about something stupid. I found it in my cereal one morning, it was about five square inches big. I kept it in its own special Pelican case but it broke when I moved across the continent. Sadly any pictures I had of it have disapeared into the web ether. And I learned a valuable lesson, backup your photos of over-sized breakfast particles.

Next up, MaxPower hosted the definitive list of the Top 10 Dirtiest ACDC Songs. Clearly, if ACDC doesn’t embody the ideals of dynamic, decisive, uncompromising, and stupid than nothing does. MaxPower continued to publish the absurdly stupid and inane. Consider the approach we have taken on the deep and complex issue of sphincter bleaching. To this day MaxPower ranks very highly for the term sphincter bleaching and sphincter bleaching pictures. I always take pleasure in seeing creeps arrive at MaxPower looking for pictures of bleached white bums. Fools.

Maturity: Like Fine Wine and Century Eggs

Perhaps with maturity comes a relinquishment of childish and stupid thoughts and posts. Sad really, but writing strange sendups about people who get their bums bleached (and the people who look for information on it) or simply posting the humorous nature of ACDC lyrics has been left behind as MaxPower turned 2.

Since then, MaxPower has published a series of WordPress Plugins that are more popular than ever could be hoped for. These plugins have been downloaded over 5000 times. Not bad for a guy with ZERO programming education.

MaxPower has also recently started to explore issues of SEO, Adsense, and splogging. As well, my post on Free Icons was such a success that it now covers all the costs associated with running a website — that is all I could have ever hoped for.

The Future

People like yourself keep me blogging on a regular basis. I wholeheartedly enjoy reaching out and making challenging someone to laugh, think, or helping them solve a problem. Perhaps this is why MaxPower has recently seen a big surge in the numbers of RSS subscribers, welcome RSSers!

I will always provide full feeds without ads. However, while having subscribers and visitors is nice, I would really like to see more interaction with people on a regular basis. I would encourage you to, every once and awhile, minimize your RSS aggregator and leave a comment, idea, suggestion or criticism. MaxPower does not believe in nofollow, so your comments at MaxPower actually do count for something.

Come and introduce yourself, say hi, share a story, a joke, birthday wishes, whatever. This is a birthday celebration, and all my birthdays have music. This is what I’ll be listening to. Thanks for a great 2.75 years, and here is to 2.75 more. Damn few like us, and they’re all dead.

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