Happy New Year!

While Lee and many other Asian Sirens readers already celebrate new year, people in Europe and America are still in 2006 waiting until they can use their fireworks. I'm ready for it and wish you all a Happy New Year!

Here's a lovely gift: I don't know what the deal is, but finestmodels.com appears to be WIDE OPEN. As in no membership required. A glitch, or a serendipity? Get it while you can.

http://www.finestmodels.com/members/finestallstars/models/

I think they forgot to close the backdoor!

haha Happy new years eve all

Good to see a shot of Sydney at AS - nice one Marco!

As for Finest Models, I'm always scared that one day I might accidentally delete or corrupt the .htaccess file in Sachiko's members' section - if just that one file isn't working, it's a free for all!

Happy 2007!
Can't stay long, Curtis has given me a reason to leave fast. :)

also...hope the guys in thailand are safe and have a good new year....

thanks lawboy. everything is okay here. what happened last night was bad, but it wasn't very big. happy new year to all of you!

news...keep them in line until i get there in february:))...take care...sounds pretty hairy over there..hope adam is ok too...

adam is fine; i spoke with him last night right after the bombs went off. no worries...

/runs for the video vault

hope things calm down more before my trip:))

Good to hear that you and Adam are okay newworks. I just read the news about the Bangkok bombings. It really sucks...

It is very fortunate that these bombings didn't kill or seriously injur more people than they did.

On a lighter note, I don't think the webmaster of Finest Models is going to have a very happy new year - not only is their members' section wide open, it's download accelarator friendly too! I think he might wake up new year's day with a hangover, a massive bandwidth bill, and possibly no job. ;-)

happy new year, everybody!

2007 is already shaping up to be a happy happy new year. Anyone out there know of a good download accelerator?

yes, it is fortunate that they were small. but it was still terrible. i see now that the current "government" is talking the opportunity to blame the bombings on the ousted PM thaksin's supporters. don't believe it! there is only one group in thailand who would profit by sowing seeds of fear in this way, and it is insurgents in the south.

lawboy: things are okay here. i wouldn't worry too much. but i think that this year we are going to see more stuff like this here.

Looks like Finest Models has finally restored their .htaccess file. I have to say though, after downloading half a gig of their stuff and throwing most of it away, there's no way I'd join even at normal prices - $39.95 per month is outrageous!

They charge $39.95 a month? I gotta check that out. Maybe only in OZ. That site does suck though. Even free I had no interest.

Nope, that's US dollars (for a 'Platinum pass'). They nonsensically split the content over a few different sites, so they can charge you $39.95 to get access to all of them. But the style of the content - and many of the models - is the same across all the sites. So basically, they're giving their content more 'perceived value' (double the usual price for access to half a dozen sites with basically the same thing), so they can rip you off. Once again, they're preying on the internet consumer's appetite for quantity over quality - vote with your wallets people!