This edition of the URI! Domain was something of a placeholder. I released it in June rather than August, and besides the obvious graphical changes, I shuffled some content around and added emphasis to a simpler style and navigation. I had originally planned to open shop on a brand new server with neat tricks like a forum and News comments, but decided to wait until a suitable domain name was available. Plus, you can't argue with the free service offered by my old alma mater.

The Eighth Edition was only active for four months before being rechristened as the URI! Zone in November 2003.

In October 2003, I finally took the plunge and purchased a domain name and commercial web space. Because www.uridomain.com was associated with a porn site, I chose www.urizone.net after polling my readers. The result required me to rename the site as The URI! Zone. I don't label it as the ninth edition, since the eighth was only around for a few months before being engulfed wholesale.

This edition felt like a mature site to me. Content was well-ordered and easy to navigate, and much easier to maintain and update than earlier versions. I originally tried to make every page XHTML compatible, but abandoned that task as being impossible.

The Ninth Edition rolled out several months late. It should have been released in Fall of 2004, but crazy work schedules kept me away from any major updates. I finally got around to updating the graphical look when I took a week off in March 2005.

For this edition, the news updates took on a much bigger life than they used to, with updates to every section except the Photos page virtually nonexistant. I was trying to write more interesting posts than "this is what I did today", although some of those posts are inevitable. On August 3, 2001, I posted:

I wonder how long I can sustain interesting daily updates before I succumb to the "One-Line Link" syndrome of many blogs I read. For the uninitiated, blog is the abbreviation for weblog, and it's something of a personal online diary that uses special software to make updating a no-brainer. This news page is coded by hand, so technically it's just a faux-blog. Feel free to refer to it as an o-blog, since we live in an age when the word, weblog, is too long for our collective attention spans.

Almost four years later I was still going strong with regular updates, with no lack of attention in sight!

The Tenth Edition was my attempt to restore the Zone to some of its former glory by putting some effort into making the daily updates worth coming back for. The opening month, August 2005, was the most verbose, but updates slowly whittled down to manageable sizes after readers complained that they couldn't handle so many words in a single update. I tried to cover a smattering of topics that would appeal to everyone, from reviews to music to computer stuff, and managed to win several new readers who now make up the core of my daily readership!

There wasn't anything glaringly new about the Eleventh Edition, but I like to think that I'd found a consistent, enjoyable voice in my daily updates. Off the web, this period was characterized by too much Warcraft PvP, several months of intense overtime at work, and a new girlfriend.