A friend lamented about his high school alumni website

Good luck trying to get the Alumni Association to pony up for any software. They can't even get their mailing list in a database. Their website looks like hell, too. It never changes and there's little or no functionality or content that would bring anybody back.

That's probably typical of a lot of alumni organizations! For most high schools, it's just a link from the main page of the high school website to a couple of pages about alumni. If you are really lucky, there will be a few issues of an alumni newsletter online. And some information about the next reunion dinner.

Certainly a lot more is possible. Of course, as Mr. Wiki, I'd recommend it be a wiki so all the alumni could help contribute to the site.

Maybe the real way to make an alumni type website popular would be to include documentation about what is happening with the school sports teams. Sports generates a lot more interest than old geezers planning reunion dinners. Especially if one could get the kids from the teams involved in helping to update the site..... Maybe someone in the English department would grace the site with some regular writing or poetry or something.... "What are our teachers doing now?" features... Old science teachers talking about their favorite science lab accidents....

Yes, if there could be a salacious angle, that would help too.....

Wonder if the Illinois earthquake is anywhere near Metropolis, the home of Superman! I'd hate to think what the toy museums in that town would look like if all the super man toys you could ever imagine were dumped off the shelves.

A friend back there thought that I must feel earthquakes all the time in California.

I haven't felt but more than 1 or 2 slight tremors in the last couple of years at least..... But I was here for the big quake in '89 that happened in the middle of a televised baseball game in San Fran. That one was at least 100 times as strong as the Illinois quake. San Francisco is about 60 miles away, and was shook up pretty good. I was actually only 10 miles or less from the center, and the office building I was in had cracks in giant laminated wood cross beams. Santa Cruz had a lot of buckled roads afterwards. Everything on the shelves in my house was dumped on the floor.