I've been playing with various programs to add new features to my website. New stuff that I've decided to admit I'm developing:

Pictopia -- I've migrated all photos on the site to a Coppermine photo gallery. Unregistered users can see just the thumbnails; you'll have to create a screen name and register to see full-sized pics. I'm probably being paranoid but I've had a couple of people steal images. This will slow them down - and enable me to track them down if it happens again. It's especially important to me since friends have shared their photos for posting and I do not want them to be paid back for their kindness by finding their photos in the latest collection being sold on eBay.

Mailing Lists -- I've been sending out update alert e-mails to those I met at cons and those who asked to be included. When it was a tiny group, adding people, removing them, and tracking was no big deal. It has now become more than I want to administer and I'm constantly worried about spamming people after missing a request for removal. I've created a couple of mailing lists, one a general list and one Stargate-only. The software claims to be intelligent and that it will only e-mail you once if I send the same e-mail to both groups. I like to think it's telling the truth but I haven't tested that feature.

Fan fic recommendations -- This is in its infancy and I'm collaborating with my friend, jalabert. For now, it's dominated by my verbose Stargate recs but we both read from a wide range of fandoms and so it should, someday, be one of those annoying multi-fandom deals. I've tried to make navigating it easy; feedback and ideas to improve are welcome.

We are not trying to be cutting-edge, the first to recommend "just-posted-3-minutes-ago" fic. This is obvious; the SG-1 recs are for stuff that has been on the web for eons. This is a personal record for the two of us of stories we enjoyed. Maybe others will, too. There's still a metric ton of stories I've bookmarked to add - there aren't any entries yet for Joy or Dangermouse! - but this has been sitting on my hard drive in various forms for the last 2 years. It'll never be complete and Jalabert finally convinced me to post it anyway.

Blog -- This is the feature I'm least certain about but it was fun to play with Word Press, newbie-goofs aside. For now, I've stashed my long, long rambles about the process of learning photography and my way around my camera in the blog. It's too long for LJ and I think exactly two people on my flist are interested in photography - and one is an artist well beyond my level of puttering. Really, it's more a photography journal for myself. I've debated leaving it private, because it really isn't intended to be interactive like a true blog, but I figured what the hell? Share the knowledge, such as it is.