AN ALL NEW MAN OVER BOARD WILL BE HERE WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. UNTIL THEN WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE.

Parts of the blog are still working and we are hoping in the next 24 hours everything will back up and working correctly.

This is a very meaningful post for us here at Man Over Board. We are hoping that no one takes it the wrong way and understands what our belief here in writing this little blog.

Picture credit: newmoonbirth.wordpress.com

We have been blessed with a great following and one we hope never to disappoint or annoy. OK maybe annoy a little. We try are hardest to lighten your day, each and every day. By posting a funny or wacky post, helpful tips on fashion, finance and of course the opposite sex. Our main objective is to get across to you, our readers,  how much we enjoy to blog and the passion we have,  to try and help the men out there to look and feel better about themselves.

This isn’t a blog about rocket science nor is it a blog that is retreaded material. However we do acknowledge when we do use others peoples words we always give credit to them when we reprint them.

This is the part of the post that we hope no one takes offense to. We have been acknowledged by other great blogs and readers for being one of their favorite blogs, honest blogs, funniest blogs, or (insert your adjective here) blogs and in so doing we are HIGHLY honored and want to extend our sincerest thanks. But we do not write this each day with the hopes of achieving such awards and while they are a very nice benefit for doing something we enjoy so much, but there is no need for such recognition.

The past two weeks trying to get a post up each day and just running the behind the scene mechanics of this blog, it leaves us very little time to do much else. Unless we are willing to sacrifice time that we have set aside to devote to family and other personal activities. To acknowledge every award and to then also post about them, along with having to pass them on to other worthy blogs is one thing we must say thank you so much, but we cannot accept them any longer.

We hope this doesn’t offend anyone, as it not meant to. All we ask for is an occasional comment from you as the best award we could ever ask for. If however you do feel as thou we are worthy of any awards, we have placed a banner on the right side bar, called Hottest Daddy Blogger and can leave a vote for us there. Whenever we see this banner on any other blog we go to, we will do the same. We also ask that if anyone deserves acknowledgment, it is our veterans of war and on the top left of our blog you can give your thanks to them there.

Thanks for your continued support, great and funny comments and just stopping by and reading what we have on our minds for that day. God Bless you all and to all a good night.

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Update to our update.

I am sorry to say the new security measure using the sentence “What is color is the color orange” decided to stop working and lock up all comments. It seems it stated after entering your comment  it would state “that comments were closed”. I am hoping after deleting this measure the comments will be working again. If not please use the contact me button on the left and let me know. I hate to have to lose anybodies comments because of these DAMN Spam Bots.

For now I will have little to no security measures  until I can figure this out. I have tried every comment system out there and many will not work with this Word Press theme. I would love to use Commentluv or Disqus but unfortunately they are not configurable with this theme.

Again my apologies, Glenn

We are aware that sometimes the word  CAPTCHA that was being used for comments and member sign ups would sometimes either not work,  acted strangely or required posting three or four times in order to make a comment or to become a member.

We eliminated the CAPTCHA today for 30 minutes and unfortunately during that brief time period we got hammered by over 30 spam bots or approximately one every minute.

KILL THE SPAM BOT!!!!

So we are trying something new for all comments that will hopefully eliminate the CAPTCHA and avoid the pesky Spam Bots. There is now a security question that should do the trick. (By the way the answer to the question is Orange. The question is: What color is the color orange.) Pretty tough huh? But I guess it is enough of a deterrent to eliminate the bots.

Thank you as always for all your great comments and feedback. We enjoy and cherish each and everyone. If you are encountering any problems with the new security measure, please drop us an email by using the red contact tab located on the left side bar.

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I have been building websites for well over 4 years now and sold them all off. Either for a lack of time and real commitment, even thou they had built a good steady following. The way I saw it, if I could not maintain them and make them constantly better what was the sense.

I have always wanted to build a blog but thought they were really for people who liked to mainly talk about themselves and keep it between friends and family.

I decided to start this blog with the intent to grow it like a website, yet also keep it personal and as true to myself as I could. I started with a simple word-press theme and while it looked boring it was very easy to control and update. My personality never lets me due anything simple nor easy. I love a challenge. I love to build something and watch it grow larger in size and complexity.

The last week has been anything but fun. In my quest to build bigger I have come up against many obstacles that led this site to become sluggish and at times unload-able.

As I have posted earlier I moved the entire site to a larger host that was supposedly faster and could handle much more traffic. What I failed to realize is that because I built so much into this blog, moving it and the database what not an easy task. I decided to revert back to my server I have been dealing with for the last 5 years.

What all this means for you, my kind visitor , is hopefullya  faster, informative and not so complex blog. The theme I have for this site is a great one, but it does have a main flaw. It requires lots of articles to be kept current and updated on a daily basis. I still want to fulfill that need.

I have been contacted by a large corporation who wants to underwrite this blog and add new and fresh content of theirs along with mine. I feel it is a good marriage and even thou some of this blog will be part of a large corporation, the intent and soul will remain mine and hopefully yours, by your comments and input.

Lastly I have been fortunate enough to have joined some great blogging communities. One in particular is called “blogcatalog” and for those who are not familiar with this site, to me, has the best writers, bloggers and group of friends I have had to ever meet here on the net. I get the chance to read many of their blogs and while I do not profess to be any kind of writer. I goal is to try at least to be one tenth as well versed as those I truly admire.

The truth is I built this site mainly for men. As men we like visuals and lots of not so serious posts.I will continue to find and distribute them regularly. But the one thing that has surprised me the most. Is over half of the readers on this blog are women and to that I thank you.

Oh and for the men here is your visual component:

Of course I didn’t want to dissappoint the women either