First, I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Dr. Grohol for his implementation of this temporary BrainTalk2 site and to those who are “spreading the word” about it. I too, as all others, have been very perplexed regarding the long outage of the BrainTalk site and the lack of updates as to its return.

This post is just to list some “observations” regarding the apparent activities of Mr. Lester based on his posts on other web pages (URLs) that he owns/controls. I am not attempting to imply anything by this post, I will just let others draw their own conclusions.

Other URLs that Mr. Lester owns/posts to are as follows:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathfinderlinden/
http://slprofiles.com/slprofiles.asp?id=3166
http://zero.hastypastry.net/pathfinder/

JL appears to post lots of photographs of his activities on his flickr page, with photo updates on nearly a daily basis. Many of his photo sets appear to be from his recent travels, however it appears that at least some of the photo sets are also from around the Boston area (where he lives), such as the “Artbeat 2006” set, with the local events taking place within the time period that BrainTalk has been down.

Again, I am not attempting to imply anything here, just listing some observations. We are all greatly indebted to JL for the development and support of BrainTalk over these past several years. However if the responsibilities/interests of his new job are now such that there is a support void that will continue to impact the 50,000+ BrainTalk users, perhaps it would be in order to request that the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Information Technology (IT) department again accept responsibility for this site. (Note: I have no idea if JL would agree to this or if MGH would even want this responsibility again).

Sincerely,
A concerned user.