Looks like we're shipping the Manta hardware right on schedule, but unfortunately we didn't start taking orders on it three weeks ago as planned. Instead we only took down addresses for a mass-mail announcement.

And that's because back in September I thought we'd just use a pre-existing shopping cart until i discovered they all pretty much stink and are a nightmare to configure/modify to what any individual site might need. So the past couple of weeks I've written most of a cart myself with some help from a friend on the back-end sql stuff and some borrowed bits and pieces here and there for session management and some other stuff.

Now comes the drudgery of packing up all these little bits to mail out.... Fun.