Remember the Xangalympics devised to match the Winter Olympics of 2002?  Remember--when the xangocracy  divided all Xanga membership into 10 blogring "teams", purportedly as a game, but in actually what was a thinly-disguised membership contest to recruit new Xangans?

Well, someone please help me out here: Who won?  And did they ever get their "prize", i.e., lifetime membership?  And wasn't the winning team supposed to get some months of free membership, too?  Did they?

I don't remember any Xanga news about the prize rewards.  So I just tried to search Xanga on the term 'xangalympics' but the Search engine is broken again.  Does anyone have a clue?  Does anyone even care? hahaha.

And here's a funny thing: Although most of the Xangalympic blogrings will no longer load because they are too huge (SQL server timeout), a couple of smaller ones still do and show that 'new' blogring members were 'added' as late as 1/22/2003.  So why is Xanga still slotting peeps into "teams" of dysfunctional blogrings?  Also, I thought the new gargantuan server situation could handle 'SQL sever timeout' issues--but apparently not.  Why not?

Oh, yes, and why does Search keep breaking?  And is, in fact, the sea boiling hot?  And do pigs, indeed, have wings?