Added Guardiandam Music writeup
This new writeup has been added to the "Cool People and Things" area of the "About Me" page.

Addition of the "PAO Productions" video page
The initial version of this page features several video clips of my own creation, including a comedy sketch by local spoken word artist Alex P., two excerpts from a DVD I made documenting the April 2008 "Fusion" poetry reading at Paperbacks Plus, three other poetry performances, and a brief "PAO Productions" promotional piece.

Addition of material to the "Open Mic Project" area
The first major site update adds an additional song by spoken word artist Alex P., as well as additional pieces recorded by poet Desmene Statum.

Embedded audio player on "Open Mic" pages
The mp3 download links have been removed and replaced with an embedded media player. The audio recordings now play directly from each page.

Addition of photos to the "Live Photography" and "Polaroids" areas
The first major site update adds photos of Crashsight, Diesel, Fallen South, Fishing for Comets, Five Empty Chambers, The Heroine, Immense, kittyviolet, Mod Effect, Mojque, My Plastic Friends, Polly Wants a Popgun, Sonic Noise Terrorists, Splatta Fish, Stir the Silence, and Turbid North. New photos of Eden Falls, Holy Diver, The House Harkonnen, LaME, The Razorblade Dolls, Reverent, and Suborne have also been added, and the Mourning Fury and With These Words photo galleries have been greatly expanded. Four pages of photos have also been added to the Polaroids area.

Updates made to band pages and galleries
Minor changes were made to the Reverent and Meat Goat main pages to reflect the current status of these bands. The House Harkonnen photos have been moved to a separate gallery. The Desecration gallery has been incorporated into the "Miscellaneous Bands" gallery, and all bands featured in the "Live Performance Photography" area of the site are now listed on that area's main page. In addition, some photos I'm not really happy with have been removed from the galleries.

"Frequently Asked Questions" page updated
Several revisions have been made to the FAQ page to reflect changes made on the site - in particular, the addition of the "PAO Productions Video" page and changes in my camera setup for the photography pages. Other slight revisions have been made to some of the questions and answers on the page.

Expansion of the "Projects" area
The "Projects" area of the site has been expanded to include a video section. The complete 2003 Portraits photo chapbook has also been included.

Removal of non-JavaScript versions of scripted pages
The original version of this site included alternative versions of pages in the "Open Mic" area for the benefit of users who had disabled scripting in their web browsers. I have always been a bit dubious about doing this, as it is my belief that anyone who elects to turn off scripting should expect web page functionality to break. And including alternative pages for this very small percentage of web surfers meant added work and trouble for me as an amateur web designer. What decided me upon removal of the non-scripted pages was finding, to my extreme irritation, that a Google search for "Shanna Hale" was pulling up the non-scripted version of her page on the site. This meant that none of the functionality I had worked to build into the page (i.e., separate windows with scrolling text) was being seen at all, and the poems which were supposed to open in separate windows were opening full screen instead, which was not the way they were intended to be seen. As a result, I removed all the alternative pages from the site and had Google remove their listings for them.

Added code to deal with search engines
Code has been added to a large number of pages to prevent search engines such as Google and Yahoo! from indexing them inappropriately, and to prevent the pages in question from being loaded in full screen mode when they are intended to be seen in smaller windows.

Various other smaller changes and updates
The genital integrity logo has been added to the site's home page. The home page itself has also been slightly modified to include a list of clickable links just below the introductory paragraph.