Posted on May 8, 2007

• I need to clear the air about something. Back in March I was alerted to the fact that a website called “Siteadvisor”, run by McAfee, had “redlisted” my site. Specifically they claimed to have received spam emails after “signing up”. What really happened is that their robot entered an email address in my guestbook. At the time I allowed people to enter their email address along with their guestbook post (it wasn’t mandatory). The email address was then displayed next to the post.

  Shortly thereafter their email address was harvested by a program which surfs the web and collects email addresses from web pages. The spam they received was not sent by me.

  When I found out about this I immediately contacted the Siteadvisor people. I removed the email field from the guestbook and asked them to recheck my site. They came back to me shortly thereafter saying that my site would be given the “green” rating, but that the change would take 4 weeks to propagate through the database.

  I don’t know what sort of slow database they are running, but the change still hasn’t been made. Repeated emails from me requesting the change be made have been ignored. Now folks using this plugin are afraid to visit my site.

  At this point I’m not sure what else to do. I am still working to get the rating changed, but I wanted you all to know what was going on. DB has never, and will never send spams. I have prided myself on treating my site visitors, both members and non-members, as I would like to be treated and will continue to do so.

Posted on May 5, 2007

• I’m glad to see that most of you enjoyed “Cosmos”. I’ve added dual and triple-screen versions to the gallery this morning.

Posted on April 30, 2007

• It doesn’t seem to matter how fast my machine is: I always find a way to max it out an create scenes which take days to render. My latest wallpaper, “Cosmos”, is now up on the new images page for your review. I was attempting to recreate some of the same “dust and light” play that can be found in the coolest Hubble shots. I guess the consolation is that such an image would have taken weeks to render on my old machine. Enjoy!

Posted on April 20, 2007

• I’ve added dual and triple-screen versions of “Before the Storm”.

Posted on April 16, 2007

• Thanks to everyone who posted the wonderful feedback for my first version of “Before the Storm”. I took some of the ideas you gave me and I’ve rendered a new version which is up now on the New Images page. The first version will remain in the Pickle Jar.