Go find the Sunday, December 09, 2001 entry – permalinks weren’t working when I visited. Regarding Darni, she was one of the first blog-writers I started reading and I love her more each time I visit. Happy holidays.

The Internet is a free country. I myself have often taken that freedom to its limits in various projects, such as the Shoe Project or the 100% Miguel Personality Test. I have nothing against making fun of Internet phenomena, and I stand up for what I do, and take responsibility for it. This of course means a willingness to be slagged myself, or to take criticism.

What I cannot accept are anonymous, personal attacks on myself or those who have come to my aid, generously spending time and effort on my redesign here, for example. I realize, of course, that the anonymous nature of the Internet breeds this stuff like mushrooms after a rain, but the fact that (at least) two individuals have been spreading baseless rumors at websites kind enough to link to my new URL irks me; the fact that mail sent to the e-mail addresses they give bounces back or that their URLs don’t work is simply too much.

You know who you are. If you have a problem with me, contact me directly. This spineless, sneaky campaign is ridiculous and childish.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Sorry that a lot of the links only lead back to the main index right now. The finishing touches are currently underway, everything should work soon.

KD at surreally.com has generously provided me with space at a subdomain, so my URL is now http://feralliving.surreally.com. Please update your links, thanks.

I was getting tired of various consequences of using blogger.com and hosting at blogspot.com, including occasional crashes, the lack of reliable comment systems (the recent Snor.com crash was the final straw) and the impossibility of hosting graphics or other pages. I have switched to Moveable Type, and here at surreally I’ll be able to put up various other pages as the urge strikes me. The first thing I’ll do in that direction is put the Feral Living Shoe Project on its own page, hopefully before the end of the year.

You have surely already noticed the new “look”. The move provided a good excuse to redesign everything as well, and this time I had it done by professional designers, D. of bulletproofpunk.com and Ann of www.annelizabeth.co.uk/ (who did the coding).

At the risk of understating his design talents, D. is a design genius. I strongly doubt that any other present I receive this holiday season will provide the same level of joy that his design has. The collaboration with him was simple – I told him I like Longo’s paintings, he rooted around in my archives to get an idea of my writing style and came up with this design, the sheer originality of which totally overwhelms me.

It is a real inspiration. For years I have been designing my own web pages with minimal HTML skills and even less design talent. It was hit-or-miss all the way. But D has shown me just how much you can say in such a simple medium as web design, and it amazes me how much of my personality and writing style he has
captured with his design. Most of you know the feeling of writing stuff, posting it and then wondering whether anyone understood. Well, D. understood, and I
think he’s bringing me up to a new level in the process.

Thanks again D. And thank all of you for visiting. If you already link to Feral Living, please update your links (register with blogdex first, it’s easy); and if you don’t, why not?

P.S.: My list of links didn’t survive the move; I am currently in the process of reconstructing that, but it will take me a while. Thanks for your patience. I’ll be adding several new sites, and although I have no plans to delete any, there’s the chance I’ll miss a few. If you notice my old link to your site is missing and you want it back up, please let me know.

A total of sixteen AIM windows are at this moment open to my crack team of various designers and coders, all working feverishly to put the finishing touches on the redesign of Feral Living as I try to add useful comments. Is the grey too dark or too light? Which font? Verdana, I think, or Trebuchet? Trebuchet. It looks so good, folks. And it will use Moveable Type. Mena rocks. And her husband ain’t bad either. I can’t wait. Tomorrow? Tuesday at the latest. Stay tuned.

Still have a headache. And my alien parasite is suddenly refusing the Lederhosen.

Sorry, nothing funny happened today, and I had no interesting thoughts. Maybe tomorrow.