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2003-05-04:

New rant online, about the difference between nationalism and patriotism.

2003-04-23:

I'm alive!

It's been a while since I've made any changes to my website (yes, the year gap in the news dates is not a mistake). A lot has happened in the last year, some good, some bad, most of it making it difficult for me to regularly edit my site, due to lack of easy access or just plain lack of time. However, I haven't been entirely inactive over the last year, and it is my intent to spend some time over the next few weeks adding some of the stuff I've been writing offline or in other forums.

Last April I redesigned the site to allow for the expansion of some sections, then never got around to expanding them. Today I'm picking up where I left off, with the expansion of the About section. More to come soon...

2002-04-21:

Minor updates to the website today. I was sitting at a command prompt on a machine without XFree86, and I figured, "Hey, why not see what my site looks like with Lynx?" It turns out there were a number of small glitches, which are now fixed. Making your website Lynx-friendly is just "The Right Thing To Do™", and Lynx will reveal some HTML errors that other browsers miss, so it's worthwhile to check your site with Lynx.

2002-04-17:

WARNING TO DOMAIN NAME OWNERS: I've just received an interesting "Expiration Notice" on my domain name from VeriSign. Thing is, VeriSign is not my registrar! If you read the fine print on the "Renewal Form", you see you're authorizing a transfer. This is what's known as "slamming", fraudulently getting customers to change service providers when they didn't really want to. If you own a domain name, beware. Also, be aware that VeriSign, despite their motto "The Value of Trust", is just about the slimiest sleezeball outfit on the Internet. 'nuf said.

2002-04-13:

Version 4 of Dreamsmith's Forge is now online! Featuring all new eye-candy! Weeee!

Seriously, if you've visited before, you may have noticed this is a new interface. As well as being more visually appealing, the addition of a secondary navigational tool (to the left) should make navigating the site easier, plus the site now adjusts to the size of your browser window. Also, in recent weeks I've been planing some additional sections, and there was really no place to put them under the old design. Something needed to be done to allow for further expansion. The extra navigation area will allow me to subdivide some old sections. The eye-candy is just an added benefit.

Hopefully everything works. This is my first completely original design. Version 3 was completely my own graphics work, but the basic design/layout was identical to version 2, which was a design from Moyra's Web Jewels (a great web design site that is, alas, no longer with us). Version 1 was just embarassing (look for it soon in the upcoming "History of the site" section under "About").

2002-04-12:

I'm going to be tinkering with the system over the weekend as I roll over the website to a new look. Some pages may not load properly while I'm doing this, so if anything looks messed up, just wait a few hours and it should be working again.

2002-03-26:

Thanks to Sannion's Sancturary for making this site its highlighted link this week! Sannion is one of the members of the HellenicPagan mailing list, who, like me, enjoys a good rant from time to time. Good stuff, check it out...

2002-02-09:

Out of Phase added to Fiction, although it is not itself a work of fiction, but rather a commentary on The Call of Speed, a story in that section.

2002-02-06:

Pagan Philosophy added to Rings. This webring has been without a ringmaster for a long time (over a year, I believe). In any case, I have taken on the job as the new ringmaster. If you run a website that you think would fit in, please feel free to join our merry little ring!

21st Century Spirits also added to Rings. This is a brand new webring, dedicated to putting the neo back into neopaganism. We'll see how this goes...

2002-02-05:

Genetic Engineering: The Real Danger added to Rants. This article was actually written the Sunday before last Samhain, but it's taken me a while to get it online. My life has been extremely busy for the last three months, so I've been getting behind on updating my websites -- I'll hopefully find some more time this week to get things updated. In any case, I'm going to stop now before this turns into a blog entry. I am not a blogger... :)

2001-11-20:

Everything is back online! (Woohoo!) The previous news item was lost during the transfer back to this server, but during the last week of October, our internet connection went down, and I had to transfer the site to the webserver at work. During that time, none of the interactive items on the site worked (guestbook, CGI, etc.) due to processor and operating system differences. But now that we're back running on my trusty SPARCstation, everything should be back to normal. And I have a few new items to put online over the next few days...

2001-10-11:

Squaura Reading added to Spirituality.

2001-10-04:

I found another use for my new guestbook program: Random Acts of Poetry has been added to the Poetics section of this site. I'll be sumbitting my own short poems (Haiku, mostly) to the page from time to time, and guests are encouraged to submit stuff as well. Enjoy!

2001-10-04:

It has come to my attention that my local subnet has a malfunctioning switch. This causes a connectivity loss for all the servers on this subnet for about 8 hours this morning until I reset the switch. I will be replacing it in the near future.

2001-10-01:

This site now has a guestbook. I'll be posting the source code soon...

2001-09-28:

The Haiku Moment added to Poetics.

2001-09-27:

My recent rant on Terrorism and Religion is currently being featured on Gothgeeks.org. It's an interesting site with an eclectic mix of reporting, editorializing, and poetry. Definately worth a look-see.

2001-09-22:

Terrorism and Religion added to my Rants.

2001-08-18:

LogJack, Code Red Special Edition added to Software. Visit my Code Red page for examples of its use.

2001-08-17:

I've added a new section devoted to the Code Red worm and its relatives. The constant attacks against my webservers both at work and here at home are starting to annoy me. What's worse is when the attacks come from "professional" webservers. In an effort to strike back at the snake-oil merchants selling "professional" Internet services that are nothing of the sort, I'm starting the Code Red Hall of Shame.

The statistics are being generated by a modified version of my LogJack software. I'll be posting LogJack: Code Red Special Edition this weekend for all to download. Start your own Hall of Shame! I also have a new version of the standard edition of LogJack that will be posted at the same time...

2001-07-26:

The domains serviced by this server (dreamsmith.org, scsupagans.org, and orendanorth.org) were offline for 22.5 hours (from noon on the 25th to 10:30am on the 26th) due to power supply issues, so if you tried to hit us in the last day and couldn't connect, that was why. My apologies. Also, my apologies for the lack of recent updates -- work has been extremely busy lately. I have a lot of updates I've not gotten around to posting yet, but should hopefully get online in the first couple weeks of August...

2001-06-23:

Counterpoint: Traditional Paganism added to Rants.

2001-06-17:

Showdown on New Haven (Part IV) added to The Assassin Chronicles (under Fiction).

2001-06-14:

LogJack updated to version 1.00 -- it is now considered stable and contains no known bugs (not to mention several new features).

2001-06-05:

Admin's Blues added to Poetics.

2001-05-31:

Pushing the Envelope: Eulogizing Icarus added to Rants.

2001-05-28:

New site design! I finally got tired of Moyra's OP-ulent Greys, and decided to roll my own graphics. I call this theme Marble, for obvious reasons. My thanks to The GIMP and it's developers for the excellent program I used to do this. Also, my final thanks to Moyra's Web Jewels; I still wholeheartedly recommend this site to anyone who doesn't have the time to roll their own graphics. Other changes include a new Home page (the News page used to serve this function, but it's getting too big), and Rings has been spun off from Links.

2001-05-24:

Showdown on New Haven (Part III) added to The Assassin Chronicles (under Fiction).

2001-05-19:

Showdown on New Haven (Part I) and (Part II) added to The Assassin Chronicles (under Fiction).

2001-05-17:

Qtarot updated to version 0.25, with two new decks! Oh, and some bug fixes and improvements.

2001-05-12:

Finals are over! School is out for the summer! There's a bunch of stuff I need to update on this website, but I've been too busy to get to it. Now, hopefully, I'll have some more time...

2001-04-22:

LogJack added to Software.

2001-04-18:

Qtarot updated to version 0.02, screenshots added.

2001-04-13:

All of my "Counterpoint" articles from Themestream added to Rants.

[This completes my moving of material from Themestream.]

2001-04-13:

Gods, Spirits, and Forms (Oh My!) added to Spirituality.

[Originally published on Themestream.]

2001-04-12:

Prelude to a Storm added to Storms (under Fiction).

[Not a Themestream article, just something I hadn't gotten around to posting yet.]

2001-04-11:

I finally get around to adding Themestream to my links page, and the day I do so, the site announces it's officially closing its doors! Oh well, perhaps it's for the best, I've been ignoring this site for a while. I'll be moving my Themestream content to this site over the next few days.

2001-01-05:

GT (bio) section is now up -- no longer are there any "Under Construction" pages! (Although a few sections still need to be fleshed out some more.)

2000-12-19:

Quotes section is now up.

2000-12-13:

Chapter 1 and Chapter 8 added to Storms (under Fiction).

2000-12-12:

Gname That Gnome! The event of the millennium begins! Fun for the whole family!

2000-12-12:

The Enumeration of the Names of Candice and The Slugs Are On The Warpath added to Poetics.

2000-12-11:

The Technoshaman's Journey added to Spirituality.

2000-12-11:

Running on Empty added to Fiction.

2000-12-10:

On Ethics added to Rants.

2000-12-08:

New site design, with graphics courtesy of Moyra's Web Jewels. If you do your own web pages and haven't visited this site, do so now! It's pretty cool...