It's been quite a year here at WinCustomize.com.  The year started with a completely new system with new backend.  Like most rewrites, this one wasn't without bumps.  It took us until the end of Summer to get most of the major kinks out and we still run occasionally into the "server too busy" error.  If any of us meet in person, I'm sure the guys would love to talk about how unintuitive the coding techniques are for a site that gets over 20 million visitors per month.

But at the end of the day, a fancy site or neat features are beside the point.  It's about the community we've all built together.  It's about you guys. 

What you have created here is something special.  People from all around the world get together and share their creations with one another.  Whether it be a desktop wallpaper, a package of icons, a skin for your favorite application or your entire operating system, people have created some pretty wonderful things this past year.

So no matter whether you celebrate Christmas or some other holiday, on behalf of the WinCustomize staff, Merry Christmas and thank you for sharing your lives with us.  It has been a real honor for me to serve you in my limited capacity as admin/owner/whatever of the site. 

It's really a joy to be part of this community.  Cheers!