Hello again

I think I figured out why some people keep thinking the site’s down: they’ve always been linking directly to http://piratesofdarkwater.net/index.html, which is not valid and has not been since I implemented WordPress. It took me this long to finally set up a redirect to the actual index site (index.php). Hello there, those of you who’ve been unfortunately locked out all this time!

Just to make this all as easy as possible, when you link to this site, please link only to http://piratesofdarkwater.net and DO NOT put any sort of /index.??? after it. Thanks, and sorry for the hassle!

Is there anything else that you find a little hard to find or use around the site? Any broken links? Any random inconsistencies that you may think are minor and inconsequential but that still stick out? Any suggestions or complaints or constructive criticism? I’m always open to them, though these days I may be fairly slow in fixing them, but please don’t let that stop you from suggesting anything you want! This really is my only truly active site these days, so regular and fresh feedback is very welcome; my Japan journal is slowly withering away now that I’m back in the US, I got rid of all my fanlistings, I update my portfolio a few times a year, and I only occasionally update my profile page–I don’t think I’ve touched the rest since well before I went to Japan. Crazy how that happens.

Spam filter issues

I’ve realized recently that my webmail spam filter has tagged several legitimate messages from you guys as spam. I’ve caught some, but there are nearly 1000 unread messages in there and I may have missed others. If you mailed me and haven’t received a response, please comment here with your message, or try mailing me again with a more descriptive subject line. If this continues, I may set up a Gmail account and forward all my mail through there, since the spam filter there is much better.

A tip: do not start your subject with “hello.” That seems to have been something my spam filter considers suspicious.

And once again, sorry for not putting stuff up–people have mailed me some neat stuff lately, but now that I have a job requiring me to stare at a computer all day, it’s hard to make myself do it at home! It’ll all go up eventually. Many thanks to you all who’ve mailed me scans/photos/other content, and as always, thanks to everyone who takes the time to send me an e-mail at all! It’s really awesome to know that people still care enough about this show to want to make themselves heard one way or another.