For most of you who don’t know I was apart of Circle K, no not the convenient store , the collegiate service organization.  While in this organization there was drama because some friends and I started a website that was much better than the organization’s main website.

Now when we launched UnofficialCKI.org we had more features, better content and our site layout/organization was far superior to the main official site, circlek.org. After the first week we didn’t know how the Kiwanis International Staff would react. Amy, Pete and I were hoping that they would be encouraging but alas they weren’t.

Their first action was to send us a cease and desist letter. There was also a long exchange of emails berating us and our website. They even deemed our actions “Conduct Unbecoming of a Circle K Member.”  It’s like we committed a crime against humanity the way they were treating us. My favorite exchange of communication with them was with the Kiwanis International, Steve Warner.

We might have bragged that the three of us created this fully featured site in one week. Mind you we were doing this during finals. So Steve responded by calling our website amateur and called PHP an entry level programming language. Now, I will cut him some slack. Seven years ago PHP was still building a community and starting out. It isn’t the monster what it is now. The funny thing is that now PHP is used by companies such as Facebook, Technorati and WordPress. I want to take this opportunity now to tell Steve, Casey Keller and Gloria Bidgood to go suck on a lemon and DIATF. I guess it would need to be a landfill fire rather than a trash fire.

So it has been seven years and where is circlek.org at now? It’s still the same, no progression. Information barely gets updated the only thing that is different is that they are using ASP.NET which is impressive but a bit overboard for such a small scale site.  You would think by raising dues that members would get more for their money. Instead members get to log onto a very poorly designed website with shitty content.