Flickr - pictures of coffee mugs, coffee cups and coffee

Happened across some interesting Flickr groups so I joined them and am putting links to them here. Many of these images wouldn't make it into Coffee Mug Heaven because some are mainly pictures of the coffee itself and, of course, my site is all about the mugs. I used to have pictures of some coffee cups on the old site but have eliminated them in the refurb for the new site.
Flickr group: Coffee Mugs
Flickr group: ♥MyMug

Don't Tread On Me

This week's mug is the Gadsden flag rattlesnake mug, available for purchase here...but with a personal agenda attached.

Even if you've never watched "Jericho" on CBS, you've probably heard that it was canceled and its' fans sent loads of peanuts to CBS to get them to bring it back and they did. Well it has been canceled again just as the show was really, really getting good. So, here we go again - this time I'm going to do what I can to help bring it back.

Throughout the series the Gadsden flag from the American Revolution has been used as a symbol of the spirit of the town of Jericho in its attempt to survive and recover from the "terrorist" attacks on the United States.

Some links here if you would like to read up on the show (if you're not familiar with it) because it is definitely worthwhile to watch, even if the 2 existing seasons is all we'll ever get.
-cbs.com
-imdb.com
-nutsonline.com

9th anniversary and only 58% toward today's goal

I had hoped, on this 9th anniversary of CMH, to have 1,000 mugs on the new site. I only have 583 ready today so I'll just have to settle and keep working on it.

I have a new mug out to commemorate the 9th anniversary. I hope you like it with the new logo one one side and the traditional blinking neon light logo on the other.

The NEW World of Coca-Cola

I've just returned from a trip to Georgia and visited the NEW World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta. Very fun cool place to visit...sadly few mugs available from their gift shop.

422 mugs

New logo for the site - slight mod to reflect the new era. Updated the database and the site this week....little by little making my way to 1,000 mugs by Apr 1, 2008.

The NEW Coffee Mug Heaven is up (kinda)

Coffee Mug Heaven was created in 1999 as a way for me to:
a) keep track of my mug collection
and
b) share my mugs with the world

The internet was a small cozy place back then and while the site had a few partnerships to make money off link/sales, making money was far from the primary purpose. For several years, Coffee Mug Heaven was the #1 "coffee mug" site on the web. I expanded the site to include other people's favorite mugs and unique mugs I found available for purchase on the web or on eBay. I maintained the site till late 2000 when the site was becoming so large that it was hard to add new mugs (due to the static design of the web pages). I set my mind to redesign the site using a database to serve up the mugs, thus making it easy to add mugs and keep the site humming. Life, being what it is, had different plans. Many things changed over the next 7 years and I tried to make time to do the redesign but made little progress. In my defense I didn't have the tools or know-how until the past few years.

This year, determined to make the redesign dream a reality, I worked hard to update the database I'd started, wrote the code for the pages and just today have (an ugly) working model of the NEW Coffee Mug Heaven up and running. There will be many updates and improvements over the next few weeks and my first goal is to have 1,000 mugs up on the site by April 1, 2008. That day will mark the 9th anniversary of the site's launch and will be the official grand re-opening of the site. But wait, there's more...

Once I've got the site all fixed up and running smoothly, I have another goal. By April 1, 2009, the site's 10th anniversary, I plan to have 1,000,000 mugs on Coffee Mug Heaven.

Summer Olympics 2008: Beijing, China

There is a wonderful selection of mugs available directly from the official Beijing 2008 Olympic Games web site.