Well I had a nice surprise the other day. Was on my new game I had started because I could not find any diamond or the dungeon in the main game I was playing and accidentally hit the F5(I think?) button and it made all the fog on my screen go away. I had not been able to see very far because of this fog that I thought was just something that would happen and go away on its on. None the less I realized you could change it by hitting that key and thought I would go back to my main game and check it out there and boy was I surprised..
These worlds are HUGE! I thought I had tapped out my location and was aggrivated because I had found lava and nothing special other then that. I found another 4 massive islands. Still no luck finding diamond but the hunt is on again.
Still looking for a server. I went the minecraft forum but do not really trust random people. Will wait for 1 of you peps to set one up I guess.