Apparently I have a new arch nemesis on the web: Randy Charles Morin. Poor Randy has a number of issues with me but the primary complaint seems to be my (current? past?) involvement with the adult business.

For those who haven’t read my bio, please do so now. Before you continue any further with this post, read it carefully. I haven’t changed it one iota since Randy started crying, but I would like to update it for what’s happened in 2005 and 2006 at some point in the near future.

I think most of Randy’s allegations are clearly refuted there. I can’t do much about him not being able to use my name properly. Maybe his legal name is Randall, I don’t know. Does he use his legal name? And if he’s not what does that mean? What if he had chosen to go by “RCharles” would that be indisputable evidence that he’s trying to hide from his real identity? Please, the T in my name stands for Todd and the rest is my middle name. So when I say TDavid is my name, it’s the same as F.Scott Fitzgerald saying “FScott” is his name. I wonder if F.Scott was treated with similar confusion? He had the period which probably would help me in some name disputes, but periods are for women.

Interestingly enough, Randy’s friend Coolz0r is linked inside Rmail. Is Coolz0r trying to hide his identity online too? What has Coolz0r been up to? I don’t really care, but you can see how quickly Randy’s point becomes absurd and hypocritical when applied to his own situation.

Generally speaking, I don’t use different names in the adult business than I use online in the mainstream business. It’s TDavid (or TD) in both. When/if you should ever meet me at conferences (mainstream or adult, I’ve been to many of both) I rarely go by my full legal name unless there is simply no other choice. Microsoft had no problem for Search Champs v4.0 properly identifying me as TDavid and countless other events I’ve attended has this rarely become an issue. Sometimes people are curious about my name and it’s a conversation starter and icebreaker. I really don’t understand why Randy can’t accept a name that somebody wants to use is somehow invalid or fake or evidence of anything sinister? My friends that have seen Randy’s post, including one who’s wife went to high school with me, think Randy’s crazy.

Our Script School mascot, C-Munk, who is a foul-mouthed chipmunk talking creature and the creative work of several people (male and female) over the years “thanked” Randy today (warning: adult site link, and it’s not very nice) in typical C-Munk fashion for acknowledging that there was a missing IRCA meta tag for our only adult surfer-oriented website. That issue was quickly resolved.

We certainly don’t want to see children — Randy’s or any others — visiting websites that are intended for adult audiences. He was right to call queston to that, but instead of doing something more friendly like emailing us directly or calling me on Skype personally about the situation or even making a more civil request or question on his blog, he wants to make it look like I did this maliciously, intentionally in a snide remark in his blog comments. Nevermind the fact that the site in question actually did have the IRCA tag in a former incarnation. Of course anybody reading this can verify using the WayBackMachine and caches around the web that what I’m saying is 100% accurate.

There are numerous mistakes, holes, assumptions and outright fabrications in Randy’s statements that I’m not going to bother refuting. Let people make their own minds up about what’s been said, what’s actually been done, and what’s the truth. I don’t have to defend myself, including my business reputation to anybody, including Randy Charles Morin. My record on the web, and it’s well documented and historical, show what kind of businessperson I am and continue to be. And that’s working with both mainstream and adult webmasters.

You see, I don’t draw moral lines in what you do online so long as it is legal. If you want to have a website with gay porn or transvesites or interracial or that you dislike the government or websites and webmasters then hey, more power to you. That’s the First Amendment and I believe strongly in the protection of those freedoms.

I take back when I said this was a “good” guy. Randy Charles Morin, at least in this situation, is not behaving like a good guy. He got his feelings hurt and is trying to project all his negative feelings toward the adult business onto me. For the last 6+ years I’ve been more a B2B adult webmaster than pornmaster, as Randy puts it, but let him perpetuate that falsehood if it turns his crank. Maybe I should work harder at being a pornmaster so I can validate his anger?

(Note: I have been working on nakedyougohmm.com so maybe someday that will prove such validation!)

Sterling seems to have the best take I’ve seen on this mess. I was clearly overzealous with Randy last week here and do apologize for that exchange. This is a genuine apology not some erroroneous sarcastic flame.

I’m not going to remove the exchange because that would be like what the Computerworld contributing writer, Richi Jennings, did earlier this week when I pointed out that he, too, made a mistake with my name. His response was to nuke the quoted post (which also had the same paragraph twice) and my name and then to flame me on Randy’s blog as a “loser.” When one of my friends mentioned this situation in Randy’s comment area, Richi also removed my original name correction comment on Computerworld. Anonymously, of course. Or so he thought it was anonymous. Wrong.

I do not, and will not ever apologize for pointing out to Randy the problem in Rmail which remain unaddressed and unchallenged. Maybe some of you with blogs want your categories pointing to Randy’s kbcafe search engine instead of your own categories and looking like they are part of your post (above the fold), but I sure don’t. Not even once have I seen Randy address why he is doing that (it’s obvious why he’s doing it, that’s why). If you want to wonder about something, wonder about the motives there.

At least our company responds to activity and challenges made about our web properties. I should note that not a single reader, save for ex-reader Randy, has complained about the images for this blog not showing up in their favorite RSS reader, despite me opening up and soliciting that information last week.

Not one single person.

Ironic considering this was the original issue that got Randy and I derailed. He thought this was some huge deal. This helps support the notion that most people continue to read blogs on the web and not via RSS reader.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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