I had a bit of a win when I renewed my domain names for two years. I was able to renew both names for the price of one. The price has not changed from the beginning. I also have biodiversity.net.au.

Greenscreen Festival sent an email confirming the safe arrival of my entry the day before the deadline. Steve and I were up against it for the past couple of months, clocking up the hours to produce a documentary about me and my work called One Small Place On Earth . . . Originally I had planned a DVD along the lines of The Beauty of Overlooked Things, but with the extra dimension of night footage. Steve advised me to try and conform to the expectations of the festival organisers by changing to a documentary format. Time and money were always going to be a major constraint. We had to courier the DVD to Germany. I am glad we made the documentary. It is something on which I hope we can build.

I received an email from Gold Coast City Libraries ordering five sets of Supplements 1 to 3 of the Archive which were published at the end of 2009. This was in addition to recent orders from other buyers of the original publication of the archive in 2006. Every little helps to defray my production costs. Fortunately the project does not depend on sales since it is not about achieving sales.

John Caddy emailed me the link to the new Kingdom Fungi pages on his website Morning Earth which includes four of my frames. A couple are on the first page. Keep on scrolling down till you get to the ‘Anemone Stinkhorn’ frames.

Katja emailed me saying that Dallas’s XML file failed validation and needed further work. I forwarded Katja’s email to Dallas and he copied me in on his reply to her, which was all Greek to me.

Received the Greenscreen Festival 2010 call for entries. The festival is in Eckernfoerde, Germany, in September and entries must be in by April 16. I entered last year’s festival with my DVD The Beauty of Overlooked Things.

In a further attempt to make my work more accessible, on the basis of ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’, I today sent an email to 40 recipients asking them to be a fan of my new Facebook page: ‘One small place on earth . . .’, which has just been set up with the help of the daughter of a good friend of mine. Apart from its interactivity, the good thing about the page is the fact that the nine albums are grouped according to subject, unlike the website gallery which reflects the generally random way in which the archive is compiled.

Simon Smith emailed confirming the arrival at the NFSA of the corrected Supplement 3 MOV file together with the three DVD set of Supplements 1 – 3.

I posted the replacement MOV file to Simon Smith together with the DVDs of Supplements 1-3, so we can claim that they have now been officially published, complete with slick and their own species list. The supplements are each on a single DVD in the one case and the set costs $150.

On 30 November, the day after I got back from Cambodia, I bumped into Jaap at North Tamborine. He told me about a confirmed sighting of a Tiger Snake on the Mountain two weeks previously. I spoke to Doug White who explained that the snake had been seen at night in MacDonald National Park. I suggested to Doug that the Queensland Museum and the Environmental Protection Agency needed to be told because the snake is not recognised as occurring on the Mountain. Today Jaap sent me photos of the snake, which certainly looks like a Tiger Snake. I had to remove the Tiger Snake frame from my Gallery based on what I had been told by Jaap, the Museum and the EPA. Once I know that the Museum accepts the identification, we can restore the frame to its rightful place.