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2007

Lake George — 11/19/2007
From a short trip to Lake George I took in July I've put up 21 new wallpapers of this beautiful lake and it's surroundings.
Sleeping Giant State Park Wallpapers — 10/07/2007
A few weeks ago I went on a hike at Sleeping Giant. This has been by far the best Connecticut park I've been to yet. I have 18 wallpapers for your viewing pleasure.
New Website — 5/29/2007
Last week I launched a new website called Wallpaper Alley. It's a new desktop wallpaper directory, search engine, and blog. This is my first true attempt a blogging and will be trying to blog about wallpaper related topics 3 or 4 times a week. Have a look!
Big Update — 2/22/2007
65 new wallpapers added from my hiking trips this past fall - Campbell Falls, Haystack Mountain, Saville Dam / Barkhamsted Reservoir, Session Woods, & Thomaston Dam. Enjoy!

2006

Walt Disney World Wallpapers — 7/8/2006
I just got back from a trip to Disney World a few weeks ago and finally got a chance to add some wallpapers of the best shots I got while there. Check them out: Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and MGM Studios .

2005

Guild Wars Wallpapers! — 12/31/2005
I recently started playing the game Guild Wars. Due to it's beautiful scenery I decided to create some wallpapers out of the screenshots I take.
New & Cool Wallpapers! — 10/12/2005
In a departure from creating my own work from scratch I decided to download some hi-res Nasa images and create wallpaper from them. 10 wallpapers have been added to my new Mars gallery. Each of these are given the proper credit as to their origin. This is just the begining - I plan on offering many more planet and space related wallpapers in the coming months along with my usual photos.
Finally an update! — 06/02/2005
4 new wallpapers added to the animal, flowers, and misc galleries and new Boston Red Sox gallery added with 4 wallpapers.
Fresh Wallpapers — 01/08/2005
19 new wallpapers have been added including 5 new animal wallpapers and 14 new nature wallpapers.

2004

Red Cross — 12/30/2004
I did my small part and donated to the Red Cross to help those in need as a result of the Indian Ocean tsunami catastrophe.
Why I hate driving — 10/07/2004
Just my luck. Today on my drive to work a person pulled out in front of me and I hit him. He was found at fault completely. So his insurance will pay for my damages right? That's true except that he doesn't have insurance, wasn't registered, and had an expired drivers license. I've been driving for 11 years now and this is my very first accident and it's not even my fault. fortunately no one was hurt. My Altima was not damaged too badly, but bad enough so the engine hood won't close properly, one headlight busted, and the electrical system is damaged in some way so that the car won't start. I just got this car a few months ago too!! Luckily I kept my 97 Neon as a spare. I just keep thinking it could have been much worse...
Fireworks Wallpapers Added — 7/23/2004
15 new fireworks wallpapers are now live.
New Car...sort of — 7/18/2004
Last week I bought a used 2003 Nissan Altima. It drives like a dream.
Photoshop rendered wallpapers — 7/06/2004
4 new wallpapers have been added to the 2D/Misc section.
Maine Wallpapers Added — 7/06/2004
Went to Maine for a few days - here are some of the better shots I took.
Sad Day — 6/11/2004
Cybil, my dog has passed on...
Next Generation of Wallpapers — 6/07/2004
Eight new animal wallpapers have been added. As promised I've begun adding some new wallpapers taken with my Nikon COOLPIX 5700. From now on most if not all of my future wallpapers will only be offered in 1600 x 1200. Offering only one resolution means easier maintenance for me while providing higher quality wallpapers to you (what I posted in the past was all lower res).
Lake George, New York Wallpapers — 6/06/2004
16 photos I took while vacationing in Lake George, New York are now live.
New Digital Camera — 6/01/2004
Thanks to the 5.0 megapixel Nikon COOLPIX 5700 I recently got, I will offer future wallpapers in 1600 x 1200. In the next few weeks I will add photos taken at Lake George, New York - these will be the last of my lower resolution shots.
Finally some new wallpapers — 4/04/2004
It's been about 7 months since I added some new wallpapers so it's been long overdue. I've added 8 new wallpapers so there's now 200 wallpapers available! The nature, animals, and flowers sections have been updated.
Dream Theater Concert — 4/01/2004
Went to a Dream Theater concert Tuesday night. It's the fifth time I've seen them live and they always amaze me. I've been to over 50 concerts and this was only the second time I've bought a concert shirt...I just couldn't resist.
New RSS Feed — 3/29/2004
I've been wanting to learn some XML so after some reading and a little practice I created an RSS feed to broadcast my site updates. In order to properly view this file you need an RSS feed aggregator like FeedReader (www.feedreader.com). My RSS feed is located here: http://www.kickingdesigns.com/rss/news.xml
Wallpaper Vault Update — 3/17/2004
My listing at Wallpaper Vault has been restored - yet they never notified me. I only knew because of my log files. Regardless, I'm happy about it and thus I've restored all reciprocal links to Wallpaper Vault.
What's up with Wallpaper Vault? — 3/08/2004
Wallpaper Vault seems to have gone missing...sort of. The site is up, but they removed their contact page and deleted their webmaster e-mail address. They removed my listing with no warning or explanation and I have no way to contact them. Very weird. So in the mean time I've removed all Wallpaper Vault links and promotion from my site here. They sent me a fair amount of traffic so I'm saddened by this.
Bye Bye ugly tables, hello CSS! — 3/07/2004
I've finally rid this site of tables forever. It's all pure XHTML and CSS now. The site may look a bit funky in older browsers - especially Netscape 4.x, but if you've been to my site in the past and you're using a newer browser hopefully you won't even notice a difference. The entire site is printer friendly - print any page and all the navigation elements will be stripped for an uncluttered looking print. I have to give a big thanks to ALA - their tutorials have been invaluable. If you notice any problems please contact me with a description of the problem, browser and version number, thanks!
House Keeping — 1/27/2004
It's been a while since I added new content, but I've been tweaking the site the past couple of weeks under the hood (code wise). I have a few wallpapers I'll be putting up in the next month, but the bulk of new wallpapers won't come until I go to Lake George in late May, and Maine in Late June. I plan on kicking off summer '04 with dozens of new wallpapers. If you have any comments or recommendations don't forget to check out my guest book or contact me. Until then, peace...

2003

Grand Cayman Photos — 9/04/2003
13 photos that I shot in Grand Cayman are finally live.
Al Lubel &The Village Idiot — 8/09/2003
Al Lubel and The Village Idiot - Late night comedy at Mohegan SunSaw some late night comedy at Mohegan Sun. Here are a couple of photos I took.
Belize Photos — 8/03/2003
19 photos that I shot in Belize are now live. Many were taken at Altun Ha - ancient Mayan ruins.
New Site Design Launched — 8/02/2003
New design is simpler and should render/load faster. I'm one step closer to switching to a tabless layout, but not quite there yet!
Mixed Bag — 7/12/2003
26 wallpapers added. 10 photos I took in Roatan in the western caribbean. 16 other photos added to the balloons, outdoors, animals, and flowers galleries.
Cozumel, Mexico — 7/02/2003
Here are 26 wallpapers made from photos I shot in Cozumel.
Took The Plunge! — 5/31/2003
I am now among the happily married to my gf of over 4 years! In the coming weeks and months I'll be adding photos from my adventures in the Western Caribbean.
12 Wallpapers Added — 5/07/2003
8 new ocean images. 4 in the new Flower wallpaper section.
New Host — 4/22/2003
Changed my hosting provider to Cosmotek. So far so good.
New Guestbook — 4/17/2003
I got rid of the forum which was overkill for this site and added a simple guestbook for anyone who wants to leave comments or just say hi.
18 New Wallpapers! — 4/15/2003
Huge update. A new gallery called Ocean / Beaches has been added. It features photographs of beaches, waves, seagulls, etc.
Two New Additions! — 3/06/2003
Two wallpapers added to the outdoors wallpaper gallery.
Wallpaper Update! — 1/08/2003
one wallpaper added to the misc wallpaper gallery.

2002

New Wallpapers! — 12/13/2002
Two wallpapers have been added to the outdoors gallery.
Wallpaper Updates! — 10/28/2002
New wallpapers have been added to the outdoors gallery.
New Updates — 10/02/2002
Added a shot I took at a Burt Reynolds show. Began updating CD database with track listings.
New Wallpapers! — 9/18/2002
New wallpapers have been added to the miscellaneous, outdoors, and animal galleries.
More Wallpapers! — 8/05/2002
12 new wallpapers have been added, in total, to the fireworks, outdoors, animals, and hot air balloon galleries.
Added Ticket Collection — 7/30/2002
My concert ticket stub collection has been added to the site.
Wallpaper Quick Links! — 7/21/2002
A quick links menu for wallpapers has been added to the home page flash. Give it a try.
New Wallpapers! — 7/09/2002
Several new wallpapers have been added to the fireworks, outdoors, and day time galleries.
New Wallpapers! — 7/02/2002
Several new photographs have been added to the miscellaneous wallpaper gallery. Update - the miscellaneous gallery has since been reorganized into additional galleries (fireworks, hot air balloons, and outdoors)
Redesign — 6/20/2002
I've completed this site's third redesign. With the exception of the forum the entire site is now fully XHTML 1.0 compliant. Style sheets are used much more extensively now which mean some things won't look as pretty in older browsers (4.x and older), but that will not affect site functionality.