I’ve begun getting a steady trickle of a particular type of comment spam here over the past few days. I have turned off access to the discussion feature, so send me an email if you want to contact me or have me post something a the site.
Life goes on… :-)
Dan
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Glad you asked… well, actually, glad I asked.
I was checking server stats tonight and I noticed that about 50 people are “members” of this web site. What does membership provide to you, or perhaps more important, what does it not provide to you?
Membership will not get you on anyone’s email spam lists. I’m the only [...]
SnapShirts creates “wordclouds” and puts them on t-shirts. Here is a wordcloud generated from the text of this site.
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Earlier I posted some photos of a bird I saw during a hike at Calero park this week. I identified the bird as a “hawk” - even though that was pretty much a wild guess on my part. (I’m definitely no bird expert.)
My friend Tom Clifton wrote in to set me straight. He tells me [...]
For technical reasons I won’t explain here, duplicates of some previously-posted photographs may appear on the home page as I update some materials on this site.
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This will likely be the last site update until later in August. I’ll be out and about in early August and probably will not have consistent access to the Internet after today. Watch for postings (and the RSS feed) to resume around the middle of August.
- Dan
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I’ll be away - in the backcountry! - during the first part of August. There will likely be no updates while I’m away. But when I return, watch for a story and photos!
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There were so many images on the Sierra Nevada Photographs page that they were taking forever to load over the slow connection to my server. I split this page up and put photos from Yosemite on a separate page: Yosemite Photographs.
This does not completely resolve the problem. Ultimately I may need to organize these [...]