Message from John, finally...
 

From the BRAINTALK website:

UPDATE 08.24.06 It has taken me much longer than expected to at least get the front page here and chatrooms running. I ran into the need to update the operating system, which caused more problems (the OS is broken to the point where I cannot run incremental updates). I'm waiting for the latest full version of OSX Server on CDs so I can do a full wipe of the drives and reinstall everything from scratch. Disks should arrive in the mail on Sept 5th the latest. Once that's here, I'll install the newest version of vBulletin and recover as much of the data from backups as I possibly can. I'm so sorry the system has been down for as long as it has. Every step forward I've taken to try and restore things seems to knock me 2 steps back, plus I have been travelling for work a great deal the past month. But I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks for hanging in there. To get to the BrainTalk chatrooms, please visit: http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/chat/flashchat.php

bump....for those that might not have read this yet.

I am posting to share this link for people:

http://www.cyber-soup.com/pamster/fl...ttutorial.html

It's a tutorial for the Flash Chat that they have running on Brain Talk. I composed it with screenshots and info on the cool features this chat software has. I hope that it helps some people feel brave enough to join us in the chat rooms. :)