May 23, 2007

February 20, 2007

January 15, 2007

I'm back from Poland, and I'm answering my email in a more or less civilized way. This site is, again, being updated, first of all in the photography section.

December 17, 2006

I'm off for a Christmas break in Poland; back on January 7th. While I'm planning to access Internet there, I may be quite slow in responding to email; please have patience.

In the meantime, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

November 6, 2006

November 3, 2006

October 25, 2006

July 30, 2006

July 24, 2006

July 1, 2006

Now I'm getting ready for a trip to Anguilla in the Caribbeans, leaving July 7th. The next update to these pages will follow when I'm back, about July 20. In the meantime I hope you'll enjoy today's additions.

May 4, 2006

The anti-leeching directives added to the site setup two weeks ago worked too good: while the images were accessible from wrotniak.net, you could not see them if you used the wrotniak.com domain (both point to the same place), and search engines sometimes use the .com version directing Readers here. After unsuccessful attempts to accommodate both versions, I had to give up — at least until I can devote some time to it. I apologize for any inconvenience.

April 16, 2006

General changes to the site: the new setup no longer allows image "leeching", i.e., placing my images directly on other sites (i.e. using them there, directly linking to the wrotniak.net server). This is an issue of intellectual property, but also of the siphoned server bandwidth.

April 9, 2006

Yes, I'm still alive, if quite busy. First of all, the professional obligations (it would be nice to have a regular 9-to-5 job one day), but also the new, deservedly acclaimed Oblivion game from Bethesda software, not only absorbing and good-looking (perhaps best-looking game graphics so far), but also most interesting for a software engineer to analyze the ways in which it was designed and implemented (no, I am not looking for an excuse!).

Finishing the game should take me a year or two, a major undertaking, so do not be surprised that this update is limited to the photography section.

March 12, 2006

With some hesitation I decided to get rid of the multi-lingual front pages. They have been here forever, more than thirty languages, but serving no practical purpose and difficult to maintain, as I could do that only with the English and Polish version, relying on kindness of strangers with others. Oh, well, at least the Polish front page stays.

March 5, 2006

To my surprise, I just discovered that this site is already ten years old: it was first posted on November 5, 1995! Ten years is a long time on the Internet, a reason for some reflection.

I have caught myself on putting more and more commentary related to photography in this page. For better navigation I decided to move any photography-related commentary and news to a new feature in the photo section: the Photo Tidbits News, which will allow the page you are reading now to return to it original purpose, i.e., providing you with easy access to recent changes and additions, without loading it with editorial contents. Some of the photography-related commentary of the last month or so has been moved to the new page.