Current Mood: Bored

So. Awfully quiet around here, but there hasn’t been much to talk about. Well, there has, but I’ve been busy — we’re packing up the house in preparation for a move in the middle of August, and so computer time has been scarce.

World Cup 2010 — I am so ridiculously proud of those little German dudes I can hardly articulate it … despite being traitorously in love with Fernando Muslera, Uruguay’s goalie. (And Iker Casillas, but that’s an entirely different story.) So it was kind of disappointing to watch the kids get thrashed by Spain, but overall I suppose the outcome was acceptable because Spain was pretty good despite low scores, and that meant my team lost to the winners, which is better than, idk, Brazil. Double bummer that Klose’s back injury kept him from playing the third place game, which would have almost certainly have tied him with that strumpet Ronaldo. Still! 2014 — Müller and Özil are going to tear it up, and I’d really imagine Lahm will keep the captaincy when Ballack retires, if he ends up having to give it up in the first place, haha. Schweinsteiger still has at least one more in him … yeah, it’s going to be awesome. Hell, even Euro 2012 is going to be an adventure of epic proportions, especially the kids can get over their terror of Spain.

In website news, I’ve closed Spindizzy. I’ve been debating it over the last year — I don’t really have the interest to maintain fanlistings anymore, nor am I particularly interested in trying to revive it. Sorry to anyone who wanted to adopt, but I didn’t really want to wait around, especially with trouble checks coming up. As soon as I remember, I’ll be dropping my status as a TC’er as well, since … yeah, not a lot of interest. I’d feel bad about it if I hadn’t put in so much effort over the last seven years. Anyway, there’s that.

Working on some writing as well, though that’s going slow with the packing up to move bit and all. I’ve got two pieces that need to be done by the end of the month, and then I’m thinking I’m going to pause a bit and do another design for karaoke-soul.net. I’d still like to get that layout database up someday, but time’s kind of been short for most of this year and rustling up the proper energy at the proper time is getting harder. I’m getting old! Birthday at the end of the month and everything!

Current Mood: Happy

Finally got around to doing some updating — I had about a million and a half rp icons sitting around rotting on the hard drive, and decided it was about time to update shounen-terrorist.net. So that’s taken care of!

I’ve recently switched computers; gone is the trusty Vaio, replaced by an eMachine (DON’T JUDGE ME) that I promptly upgraded the crap out of. Hueg power supply, gratuitous amounts of memory, an extra hard drive, a much-upgraded graphics card … dude, I’ve wanted to work on desktops forever, and it’s every bit as much fun (and frustration) as I’d imagined.

Oh god, I am a massive nerd. D:

Likewise with the upgrades, my copy of Windows 7 came in. It’s a little different, but I’m really loving it … except for the part where I have to restart my network card every time I restart my computer before I can connect to the internet, sob. There’s always something, right? Right.

In other words: I cannot wait for Christmas to be over. Retail during the holidays is hell on earth, no lie.

Current Mood: Esctatic

So I finally got around with tweaking a lot of the stuff Dreamhost gives us that we never look at — good times, and hey, gmail-based email. I thought that was awesome since I’ve never been a big fan of squirrel mail, so I switched.

Having a separate branch for docs/calendar/sites/email is kind of awesome. Even though I’ll probably never use them more than once or twice (well, beyond email), it pleases me, so hey. Honestly, I’m kind of having a lot of fun getting back into the swing of things; I need to start thinking about redoing some other layouts across the collective, most notably karaoke-soul.net — and maybe Spindizzy (though I blame most of that on just finishing troublechecking my part for TFL.org tonight.)

Also added iBegin’s Lifestream plugin, which is that obnoxious thing in the sidebar there that integrates plurk/twitter/flickr/pretty much any social network site you can think of into yet another place no one cares about. Except me, because it’s a good way to Feel Important About Oneself. (Or, alas, a half-assed way to prove that yes, I do exist online more than once or twice a year. orz)

And that’s that, honestly.

Except for the fact that for some reason, I’ve been really craving some old-fashioned Dir en grey. Which has been assaulting my playlist for the last few hours. It’s kinda glorious, really — I feel about eight years younger AND INEXPLICABLY ANGRYYY, hee.

Current Mood: Cool

Finally,  finally, after two years of dicking around, I’ve finally set aside everything else and finished the long-overdue theme update for electricangels.net. And here it is!

Lots of firsts for me, but I won’t get into them here. I’m mostly pleased with it, and that’s what matters.

Recently returned from a trip back home to Montana as well (pictures available at flickr). It was good to see the family again, and doubly pleasing to finally have actual conversations with my step-father, something neither of us seem to have been any good at previously. A benefit of growing up, right?

I’m twenty-six in four days. Birthdays haven’t really felt like birthdays in a long time — or, at least, not as we remembered them to be when we were children. Still, there’s a tiny voice in my head complaining that I’m getting older, and what is there to show for it?

I can’t say I’m unhappy. Maybe, maybe, that’s what really matters.

Current Mood: Confused

Okay, so.  Obviously, I’ve neglected to update wordpress in a while; thus, it seems the new install did some sort of strange things to the layout.  Rather than trying to go through all that and fix, I’m just going to use it as motivation to make another layout.

…why did it eat my tags, I wonder?  Hmm.

Current Mood: Esctatic

I’ve been quiet lately, mostly because I’m moving to Arizona early next month, and haven’t had time to do much of anything besides pack and work as much as possible. D: This, however, is relatively unimportant, save for that whole leaving the state thing. (It’s a lot easier to plan and execute life-altering moves when one only has two boxes of earthly possessions. An entire apartment is another thing, and it seems like we can’t get rid of this stuff fast enough.)

The neat thing of the day is the fact that my SO has finally set aside his technical stuntedness in the interest of finding something that would allow him to connect to our (soon-to-be) old co-workers, and family and whatnot. The solution, of course, is a WordPress site, since he very much dislikes myspace and the rampant faggotry that carries on there (and who doesn’t?).

So. flashpointsmile.com is his new home, and I’m rather excited for this. He’s already talking about learning how to design his own themes and whatnot, and god knows it never just stops there. (Why yes. I do dream about nerdy things like coding together, thanksforasking.)

I guess this also constitutes a new hostee! post, so hooray there.

So, at last, I’m calling this damned theme done.

This was, quite possibly, the most frustrating project I’ve decided on in a while.   WordPress has a ridiculously complicated css file, that had me totally confused for most of the design, and I dunno … green’s not exactly my color.   Whatever.   Anyway.

As for big updates around the network, not a whole lot happening beyond the struggles with a few different content management systems.   I moved my fiction from this domain to its new domain, which is probably a little silly considering that I don’t really do a whole lot of it, and installed eFiction over there.   Check it out at karaoke-soul.net.   Feel free to leave some reviews or challenges; that’s most of why I ended up using the script in the first place.   Currently, I’m working on a few different fiction projects, all of which are interesting but rather mentally consuming, and at least two of them are really making me feel the sting of not being as great at my favorite hobby as I wished I was.   We’ll see how things turn out, though, oh yes.

Mister World should be getting something of an update, soon — I’m currently wrangling with a layout database script that refuses to cooperate, and it seems to have been discontinued, so I’m eyeing some alternatives.   Technology is so full of headaches for me, hee.

So, I’ve been secretly tinkering around with wordpress, thinking about using it as site-wide content management. I have an almost-completed template for mister world, but I kind of gave up on it after a while.

Anyway, I figured that since EA was up for a new layout anyway, that I’d get another chance to work on it. EA is actually a little bit easier to manage, since I don’t have any other scripts to mess with, and it’s really little more than a gateway to the rest of the network, so it wouldn’t get overwhelming. So. Yes, as of now, EA is wordpress-powered, and it should be quite the learning experience if anything.

And because I could, I added a plug-in for avatars. I like little pictures. :3