I was very surprised when my phone rang at work, and Odin Soli was on the line! (I shouldn't have been; last week, when he emailed and said he wanted to talk both to me and to Kevin Skomsvold of nadablog, I did give him both my home and work telephone numbers).
He asked me to pass on this clarification:
Odin Soli did NOT have permission from any of the people whose photographs he used in the Plain Layne blog. Therefore, if you use these photographs, you do so at your own risk.
(Oh boy, are
you in trouble, Odin. If I were the woman whose photos you "borrowed" for Layne Johnson, you'd be hamburger by now.)
And then he asked if I could transfer the plainlayne and sedalina domain names back to him, and this time, I put my foot down. ENOUGH ALREADY.
ENOUGH. Even we people-pleaser types have our limits. Odin discarded the domain names the first time, and then, after I had bought them and offered them back to him, he refused them. I set them up originally to point to the re-created Plain Layne Archive, and after the archive was taken down at Odin's request, I redirected plainlayne/sedalina traffic to his Emitter site, and then he asked me to point them away from him.
And now he wants them back after all this rigamarole?!? Nuh-uh. No way. I bought them, I'm keeping them and once it's ready, I'm pointing them to a stable redirect page and they're staying put!
UPDATE June 29th: It turns out (according to his wife, who has commented on this blogpost) that Odin only wanted the domain names temporarily, in order to be able to execute a deletion of any of his Plain Layne work still left in Google cache. When we spoke on the telephone, I misunderstood what he was asking me to do, and therefore I do apologize for my mistake. Odin, I'm sorry. Mea culpa.
Oh, and the next time I offer to "help", could someone please, please just take me aside and bitch-slap some sense into me? Thank you.