1) Your home page now includes posts that you make. I originally excluded that to avoid redundancy, but doing that didn't really make sense.

2) Stalkers' lists and stalkees' lists have been updated to include photos and join dates.

3) A strangers' list has been added.

4) An Amazon BS Store has been added. I don't really expect anyone to buy anything there. It's mostly for enhancing my rank in search engines, but it would help to fund this site if someone buys something there. At the moment, the store only contains items that I consider to be interesting. I will expand it if I ever decide to become an online merchant.

You can access the function for editing your profile here. A link to this can also be found when you view your own profile.

It was not done for cosmetic purposes or because I thought it was cool. I restructured the menu for a practical reason. Flash content, i.e. Youtube videos, are shown on top of all other items on the page, including menu items. This can potentially interfere with navigation. The simplest solution is to prevent the menus from extending down into the blog space.

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I am releasing this early, because there have been numerous inquiries regarding this. You can see the large version of your profile photos and manage them here: http://www.blog-stalk.com/myphotos.php

Javascript must be enabled and images must be JPGs less than 2MB in size. There are no other rules. You can post whatever you want and they will not be watermarked.

Known Issues that I will fix later:

1) This only works on Firefox and Netscape. It does not work in any version of Internet Explorer yet.

2) Proportions are not enforced when making thumbnails. If you don't select an area that is close to a perfect square, your thumbnails will look stretched or squashed.

3) No minimum size limit. The system won't stop you from uploading images smaller than 40x40 pixels, but thumbnail cropping will not work out well on anything less than 100x100 and the resulting image will be nonexistent or messed up in some way. I do not recommend this. Cropping will be bypassed for small images in a future revision.

We may not have the top Google rank for "blog-stalk" yet, but we do for "blog-stalk islands". "Islands" did not appear once in the blogs until this post, but Google indexed it, because it's in the drop-down box for countries on the registration page. In fact, "islands" has the highest word rank for all of this site, because it appears 19 times, far more than any other word that Google indexes.