A few posts back I did a review of the new Social Micro-Blogging Phenom known as PLURK. I can honestly say that I have been completely consumed by this thing. My Karma is up; I have met some great people; discovered some great information and resources, all in my wonderful little time-line. It is as addictive as anything you might find on the web these days.

I also want to add that the development & engineering team for Plurk a.k.a. "A-Team" as they are know to the Plurk-verse, due to their Maintenance image that is displayed when they need to do work, are an awesome bunch. Why? Because they care about their users.

I'm not just talking about the occasional email or account you can subscribe to in order to get a glimpse of what is being cooked up. I'm referring to the fact that whenever there is a serious glitch and the Plurk-verse is affected, these guys/gals actually take the time to post a full blown explanation to the masses with a clear cut run down explaining what occurred and what they are going to do to try and not let it happen again. In a recent unexpected outage that took a maintenance window way past its original 1 hour ETA, each and every Plurker was escalated up one Karma point for pain and suffering.

Just when we were pleased with the amount Plurk-caine we were being fed, the A-team took it up another notch by opening up Plurk to allow customization of the profiles via Cascading Style Sheets. AWESOME!!! In one night, which began with me playing around a bit with colors, I found myself knee-deep in CSS fully customizing my profile. I had created the "Chocolate" theme.
Since sharing is caring I announced it to all of my Plurk friends & fans and they were pleased. I had even received one request for a custom theme based on the H.R. Giger art. I thought that since I had already created one CSS template, it wouldn't be that difficult to modify it for spits & giggles. 10 minutes later I had my second theme called "Giger."

When I thought that Plurk could not get any more addictive, the A-Team goes and throws this new functionality in my face. I have decided to set aside a small slice of this blog (new plurk tab) to the themes I create for the Plurk-verse.

If you want to get in on the action, head on over to Plurk and sign up for the fun!