Tomorrow, March 3, 2017, is a very significant day for all of us Nintendo fans. That's right - one of Nintendo's most hotly-anticipated consoles, formerly known as NX, will finally be here: Nintendo Switch. Seeing this, I decided that it's finally time for The E Club to have a piece of the action for the first time really since the early Wii years: Here on E's Blog, it's the Season of Switch. What is Season of Switch? Well, back in June when The E Club 3.0 was first released to the public, I outlined a new feature on the site called Games of Note, where I would cover a variety of Nintendo games, Mario among others. Now, this idea has evolved in order to celebrate and more effectively cover the release of Nintendo Switch - (almost) every week, a Nintendo game will be featured right here on E's Blog, as well as news and release dates about the Switch itself and new games! And the games I…
Back in 2010 when The E Club had just moved from Moogo to WebStarts, I touted a new security feature that I called The E Club Secure: right-clicks were disabled, so no one could copy information from the site. But due to the lack of necessity for the feature, The E Club Secure was quietly phased out upon The E Club 3.0's rollout. Today, The E Club Secure takes on a new form: The E Club now serves its visitors with cutting-edge TLS 1.2 encryption. In other words, The E Club 3.0 is now HTTPS by default on all modern browsers. Though some older browsers (such as IE8 and below on Windows XP and dated Android browsers) don't support this new feature, visitors from those browsers will fall back to the original HTTP version of the site and can easily view the secure version from a modern browser. So now, visitors can enjoy The E Club more safely and securely than ever before. (Though we're…
Today, August 11, 2016, is not an ordinary day in the life of The E Club. While it may seem so on the surface, an incredibly important torch was just passed: The E Club 2.0, hosted by WebStarts, has closed down, leaving The E Club 3.0 (what you're on right now) as the one true flagship of The E Club Family. The E Club 2.0 was created with WebStarts on September 17, 2010 to replace its own predecessor, The E Club 1.0, hosted on Moogo. WebStarts caught my eye because of its unique drag-and-drop editor; at the time, I had little knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, so I had to rely on such a website builder to maintain the site. For quite some time, WebStarts was a great opportunity for The E Club to grow - with its flexible editor, a domain name, more disk space, and a variety of built-in features, I was able to expand The E Club and begin to unify The E Club Family, starting with the…
After years of speculation, the sixth Star Trek TV series has finally been announced: Star Trek: Discovery! The new series features a starship with the same name (NCC-1031) which looks like a cross between a TOS-era Federation starship (round saucer) and a Klingon K't'inga battle cruiser (triangular body). While we don't know much more than that, we can infer that the U.S.S. Discovery will not feature the crew of the rebooted U.S.S. Enterprise as previously speculated; instead, it may feature multiple crews. Plus, each episode of the series may contribute to a season-long story arc rather than having isolated plotlines as the five other TV series do. The show is set to air in January 2017, but there's a problem: While the pilot episode will be on CBS, the rest of the episodes will be on CBS' online subscription streaming service, All Access, as well as Netflix. Star Trek has an…
I am E, founder and CEO of The E Club Family, and this is my personal blog on The E Club! For information pertaining to The E Club Family as a whole as well as more Mario, Star Trek, and science information, check out The E Club World. You are here at a very special time in The E Club's history; the site you are now on is the result of seven years of devotion to bringing the best Mario, Star Trek, and science information to the web in addition to incredible technological advancements. But before I get to that, here's how we got to today.
The E Club was originally founded on June 8, 2009 with a now-defunct website creator called Moogo; though it looked far different than it does today, that version of The E Club and today's version share the same purpose: being my personal site about Mario, Star Trek, and science. Over the next year or so, I continued to expand The E Club's content, even…
I am incredibly proud to introduce The E Club's brand new logo to the world! It can be seen in place of the old one on the top bar banner, at the bottom of the homepage, and as the new favicon. I designed it to be the modernization of the old logo from The E Club's inception in 2009 - circular instead of rectangular, with one thin, multicolored "E" instead of "The E Club" in blocky, shape-based lettering. Creating a beautiful contrast to the black background, the vivid colors from the original logo as well as a deep but bright blue create an abstraction that makes the new logo so simple yet so much more at the same time.
The new logo will continue to roll out over the next few weeks, but for now, make sure to look for it across The E Club Family!