Progress Report

First off, I would like to say thank you to everyone who has donated, sent encouraging words and made sure I had some tobacco to smoke. You are truly the salt of the Earth.
Freshly emboldened and having finished my other projects out in the real world, I have been working feverishly on the site these [...]

Fundraising Update

Just a quick note to thank everyone for supporting the site. I will not be mentioning any names, as most people have asked to remain anonymous.
Counting only that which has cleared my PayPal account, fifteen people have donated a total of $379 so far, which gets us a whole lot closer to our goal. I [...]

Moving Tobacco Reviews Forward

Over the years, Tobacco Reviews has grown from a tiny beginning to what it is now - the preeminent place on the internet to find out and share information on pipe tobacco. I think it is safe to say that it is The Internet Pipe Tobacco Database.
Most of you are also probably aware that Tobacco [...]

Brief Update

John Lennon said “life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans”, and he was oh so very right. Life has happened here folks, and all my plans have come to a screeching halt for a little bit.
As some of you know, I am living in south Georgia at the moment in order to [...]

Comments Are Now Threaded

Just a quick note to let everyone know that every comment on every article now has a “reply to this comment” link. If you click that link, the comment you leave will be nicely nested under the comment you are replying to. That should help us keep our discussions straight!

Classifying Blends

I get a good number of emails like this one:
I was just thinking that it would be rather handy if one could browse tobaccos by “Blend Type”, as well. For example, “Oriental,” “Scottish,” “English,” “aromatic,” “Virginia,” etc.
I have so far not broached the subject too directly, but perhaps now, with all the work being [...]

Status Report

Things are moving along here. I am doing quite a bit better job of keeping up with new account requests, additions and edits to the database, and answering/posting emailed questions. I know everyone appreciates that, as who wants to feel as if their email has disappeared into a black hole?
On the development front, I am [...]

Prepping The Database

The switchover to the new code is picking up steam around here, and I am just about ready to test the moving of the data in the database from the old system to the new one. That means that, once the bugs are ironed out of that process, all that will be left is finishing [...]

Back on Track

I’ve been a bad blogger and developer this last week. Due to lots of boring personal reasons, I have been unable to keep up with things around here like I’d like to.
This afternoon I am catching up on all of the emails and requests that have piled up over the last week or so, and [...]

Moving Forward

There has been quite a bit of wide-ranging discussion here about various things going on with Tobacco Reviews, and I thought I would quickly outline where we are with each of those items:

New Site Development:

Please see my comment here for a brief outline of where I am in the development process

Going Full Time:

After pondering all [...]

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