all new blog posts will be at msiegel, rather than here.

simplify, simplify! :D

Click here for the Help Page

i added a NSFW top-level category to the Library.
i'm developing a new option that will let you turn NSFW content on and off.

to improve server responsiveness, i'm temporarily blocking search engines from indexing categorian.
this isn't permanent! i'll be letting search engines index us again after i've moved us to new servers :)

Please resist the temptation to SU-thumb-up all your favorite Categorian pages. Otherwise SU will swamp our server with visitors. Thank you :)

Web Design Utilities
these look interesting... check them out :)

http://www.wonderbackgrounds.com/
http://azmp3s.com/ (For adding music to your blog)
http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/scrolling_text.cfm
http://www.myspacegens.com/handler.php?gen=link
http://subtlepatterns.com/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/xinha-here/
http://www.google.com/webfonts#HomePlace:home

our problem of the library showing a *little too much nudity* has been solved :)

by the way, we now have over 100,000 pages cataloged in the Library, with links to the interesting people who added them. feel free to browse! :)

WHEW, that was a painful 24 hours... our Amazon server broke down and we had to configure a new one. but, we're back! :D :D

hi all :) doing server maintenance this morning. things should be back to normal soon :)

we're up this evening, albeit a little slow :)
i'll be working on the server tonight in order to get us back to normal.

links in blogs and the library now open into a new window

i'm fooling around with the library's what's new and category pages.
pardon the construction :)

unexpected outage resolved
service was down for about 45 minutes just now due to a problem accessing the database. it's fixed :)

added a Find Category function to the Library's What's New page

hi everyone...
i just noticed a bug in the queue -- it's not showing or counting "new" messages that are really old. i'll see if i can fix that tonight

update: 16 Jan -- this should be working now :)

send comment function added to blog posts.

when you're browsing someone's blog and have something to say about a post, click send comment at the right side of the post's date bar. the Send Message page will open, all filled in and ready for your comment.

thanks to Zaxy for the idea :)

added experimental rss feeds of our front page posts. the link to the feed is on your front page under your username, way over on the right side.

tonight's improvements to the Queue were made possible by Sphinx. thanks Sphinx! :)

bug fixed tonight:
when browsing a specific category in the library, some sites were not being listed. (they weren't showing up if tagged with only a single category.)

tonight's work was brought to you by Sphinx. thanks Sphinx! :)