Welcome to Jolt Finder, would you like to Log In? Jolt Finder is a community built database project. Calling on the communtiy of Jolt Drinkers throughout world to become Jolt Finders and help fellow Jolt drinkers and potential Jolt Drinkers find Jolt Cola in thier area by entering Jolt-selling locations into the Jolt Finder Database. You might like the joltfinder LiveJournal community.

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Jolt Finder FAQ*

There are a few reasons for this. The first one being that I hand-code everything using only simple text editors, mostly pico, and sometimes EditPlus 2, when all the code is making my eyes go crosseyed (like finding a missing quote or semi-colon). The HTML is hand-coded, as is the php. I don't use any authoring tools other than text editors. When I learned HTML in 1995, all I had was a printed specification to go by. There was no such thing as an HTML editor, so I did it with whatever native text editor was handy. Old habits die hard.

Second, I want it to look good and be usuable on the Lynx browser. So a big, complicated style is out, which is lucky for me since I coded this whole thing in text-editors.

Another "benefit" is that it is easily viewable by my wife who is legaly blind and easily gets "lost" in busy web-pages.

The last reason is that I hope to get slashdotted, and smaller pages with few graphics means less bandwidth spent, and hopefully keep it from becoming too terribly slow. (This is ofcourse assuming the server will survive the slashdotting, but I have faith that it will.)

Why does the Find Jolt form default to California?

Well its my program, and I lived in California, so I did that to be conveniant for ME. I justified it by thinking that California is the most populous state, so its likely that a majority of Jolt Finders would be in California. Now having moved to the least populous state, Wyoming, I don't have the heart to change the default to Wyoming.

Why do I have to register and log in to add a location?

Its to try to keep you honest. This way you cannot enter bogus data and confirm it without logging in, adding a location, logging in as someone else, then confirming it. I mean you COULD do that, but I am hoping that it is too much of a hassle that it won't be done (often).

I also plan to add user statistics and a karma system and knowing who did what will become important to that.

I do have links to on-line sources at the top of everypage.

But there are many reasons for finding a local source:

1) You can buy one at a time if you are low on funds, instead of $18.99 for a case, and another $19.06 (Airborne @ Home) to $97.00 (!!!)(UPS NEXT DAY) shipping (in my case to zip code 82609 (It would be even more if I still lived in California, and in Powder Springs GA the range is $11.10-$85.75))

2) You can get a Jolt when the craving hits, instead of waiting for it to be shipped.

3) You can get away from the computer, and visit the big blue room, and hey, the clerk might even be a GIRL that you could talk to, or even a CUTE girl, or maybe even a cute girl WHO LIKES GEEKS. A trip to a store could change your life.

4) The prestige of being a good Jolt Finder, and eventually being able to flash your official Jolt Finder ID card, and be the envy of all those around you.

5) When you drive across country to meet that girl you been chatting with over IRC, you will know what stations to stop at for the good gas .. I mean Jolt Cola. (Too bad that thing with the cute clerk who likes geeks didn't work out, but at least the sex was good while it lasted...)

Do I need to go on?

*: And by "F" I mean "at least once"

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JoltFinder was created by L. Christopher Bird. [e-mail] He has no relationship to Jolt Cola or Wet Planet Bevrages other than that of a fan and customer. The Jolt Logo, and Jolt Product names are copyrighted and trademarked by Wet Planet Beverages. Used without permission, but please don't sue me Privacy Policy such as it is...