DreamingAnt.com Update

It's a very exciting time for Dreaming Ant. In addition to the very real prospect of physical expansion, our website (dreamingant.com) has been developing at a remarkable pace lately. This, of course, is thanks to two of Dreaming Ant's most valuable human friends, the dynamic duo of computer programming: Will Simmons (a 'Perl' amongst bits) and the original 'Wizard' himself Eric Kaun (aka 'Erk') who is back in d'game after a bit of a hiatus.

Erk's first coup (happy Charlotte? ;-)) upon returning to the underground of Bloomfield's most visible ant farm was his effortless implementation of Dreaming Ant's new staff blog (powered by WordPress) -  Virtual Pheromone. This ant communique is already home to a couple insightful examinations of French director Jacques Tati and his film oeuvre by Dreaming Ant's incomparable wordsmith Andrew. I suspect the best is yet to come, so I'd definitely recommend everyone check it out. And please, if you have a few minutes, it would be totally tubular if you were to offer Andrew your feedback...even the effervescent ant needs love too, ya know?

Most of you, at this point, are probably familiar with Dreaming Ant's MyAccount member area that Will developed, enabling you to access your Rental History and to maintain a WishList of movies that you want to check out. And I'll bet at least a few of you have monitored the semi real-time Top Rentals Lists that he created. If you haven't, you can now see what was 'popular' at D'Ant...the past coupla weeks, annually or since we opened! We plan to add even more functionality in the future - such as member-contributed movie reviews & ratings, staff recommendations, improved community film/video related news & links, and more extensive browsing options - features that we hope will compliment the living community we've nurtured at the store. But first, we need to focus on backend improvements to enable dreamingant.com to accommodate a second store, among other things. After a recent Vulcan mind-meld with Will 'n Erk, development is underway. We'll keep you posted as it progresses...

As always, thanks for supporting Dreaming Ant, and for visiting dreamingant.com!

dB