Well, Google has finally adjusted their heuristics to not favor huge sites so heavily. Previously, the leading result for most searches was Wikipedia, weighing in at around five million pages. Now the results will be more equitable.

An additional benefit is that a particular thirteen-hundred page website is dropping in the rankings. This website, previously about borderline personality disorder, includes a few pages on infantilism, a few hundred on Sailor Moon, over a hundred on narcissism, and one page spreading false information about me. Back in 2006, it's author tried to rewrite the Wikipedia article to match what she had. We debated, she didn't get her way, and has been seeking to out me since then. It is good to see that Google is giving more weight to what others think of her, and less to website size.

Now if only I could figure out what is wrong with msn/live/bing...

Well, FC has wrapped up for another year. It was good overall, with parties Friday and Saturday night. A lot of babyfurs to meet, but there wasn't an opportunity to really connect with anyone. Mainly my fault, I guess. At least I was able to get caught up with a few friends.

The Friday babyfur breakfast that I was planning didn't happen. The location fell though days before FC, and there wasn't time at FC to find another location for Friday morning. (That is, the first day of the con.) Tamino had planed another breakfast for Saturday morning, so it mostly worked out. (Tamino, by the way, invested a lot of time and energy into the PACS room and schedule. I think it turned out well.)

On the plus side, I finished some sketches during the event. On the downside, two of the three are so obscure as to require explanation. Maybe after inking they'll be more accessible. Unclear babyfur art easily becomes pointless. My previous round of pencils included one of a relaxing bunny that looked dead. Not sure if the two-thirds obscure ratio is an improvement over that.

It took a while, but I've finally got the results comparing male and female ABDLs together. Work on it started in October!

http://understanding.infantilism.org/surveys/girls_boys_and_diapers.php

Here are some of the highlights:

*There are actually might be a lot of female ABDLs, relatively speaking. The sex ratio is about 10 men to 1 woman. This is more than expected for the paraphilias such as masochism and fetishism.

* Women with late onset ( 20 years or after ) were relatively more frequent than men with late onset, and less interested in diapers. In contrast, early onset cases were similar to males in their interest in diapers.

*Female ABDLs tended to prefer younger roles than men, and none reported a preference for the role of caregiver.

Thought I'd take a break from the critical functions of website development, statistical analysis, and surveying to attend to a matter of high importance.

Kitty tea

A while back I tried to get over my cola habit by exploring tea and coffee. The efficient way to discover excellent teas starts with research. However, due to a shortage of caffeine in my system, I skipped the homework and selected a tea based on a more subjective criteria; the cutest box.

This lead to Celestial Seasoning's Decaf Honey Chamomile Green Tea. Adorable panda, but decaf. The next cutest was Madagascar Vanilla Red. It had a smiling lion on the box; 'Kitty tea.' Unfortunately, one cannot judge a tea by its cover. Kitty tea was cute but about average. Trader Joe's 'rhino tea' turned out to be more to my taste.

The search for the perfect tea continues, flawed methodology and all....

Well, it has been only four months since my last post. Not that long.

I've been dealing with a few things, including the third set of survey results. There has been some housekeeping on Understanding.Infantilism.org, so hopefully the third report will fare better than the second, The Changing ABDL Community . It graphed the impact that the sexual revolution and the internet revolution have had on the childhoods of AB/DLs. However, it ended up going straight to the supplimental index, AKA "Google Hell."

By they way, for everyone who has helped keep the rest of understanting.infantilism.org form slipping into the underindex... Thanks for linking!

~Grey

The AB, DL, Etc. Survey (still at http://understanding.infantilism.org/survey1_abdls_etc.php ) has passed the 1000 response mark. Responses are still being gathered.

Currently, I'm working on the second report on the results. It will be about how AB/DLs have been affected by the events of the past half-century.

It is hard to believe that it has been a year. At FC 2006, while gathering feedback on a handout that I was developing, I found out that the wikipedia article on infantilism had been taken down. It was then just a stub and a link to a powerpoint file that associated infantilism with pedophilia. The conversion from handout to new & informed wikipedia article framework took place in the lobby at FC over a few mornings. Two rounds of edit wars followed.

Many are probably looking back on a 2006 that flew by, and wonder where it went. As for me, I know.

Hello,

There is one catalog clipping that I keep forgetting to bring to the BRiDgE munch. (That is, the Bay aRea Diaper Enthusiasts, in California.) REI has two cute sets of kids snowshoes designed to leave paw prints. I haven't tried them out, since there is no snow around here.