site updates

An update relating to d.v.o.

Can I borrow your notes? Yours are better than mine.

Posted October 20, 2003 - 10:14pm

Bunch of images were added to the galleries today. I've got to move the photo album link to the top of the page, instead of being stuck only in the bottom footer. But to make it look decent, I'll have to start work on pastry.theme version 2. Pft. But what else have I got to fill my days with?

A job is what I need.

In a few days, the box sets for Buffy: The Vampire Slayer will go on sale for half their normal price. I only need season 3, 5 and 6 (7 isn't out yet) to complete my collection and if I give in and purchase them when they go on sale, I'll get them all at half the price that I would normally half to pay for it.

On the other hand, an unemployed bastard such as me should really save his money for more important things or at least keep what little I have for some sort of emergency situation. I also need some of the money for christmas gifts for friends and family. Damn commercialism that drives people to have expectations.

photo gallery

Posted October 16, 2003 - 11:26am

Just a quick word to let you all know that the images I'm uploading to the gallery aren't the quality that they came out of the camera.

They've been rung through Photoshop 7's "Save For Web" and most are JPEGs at 60% quality, though if the image looks the noticeably bad, the quality is raised.

Let it be known that the images are at a quality that is nice for dial up users, but still looking good.

Move along, nothing to see here now.

I liked that 3 eyed fish from the Simpsons

Posted October 14, 2003 - 11:02pm

Before I trail off, image.module is now installed, it has one image at the moment. Now, the trick is that when I add a new image to the galleries, I can have it show up here on the front page as well. This could be useful if I actually take a good photo and want anyone passing by to see it as well. This is because that almost everything that is put into drupal is treated as a "node". Depending on how it was submitted, as to what type of node it is.

I'm just now discovering how truly powerful Drupal can be. Want a different type of node? Simply write a module for it. Though, I've yet to look into how to write custom mods. Though I'm thinking it wouldn't be terribly difficult.

Tomorrow I go for my 12 monthly eye checkup... It's around this time that I start thinking "Has my eyesight gotten worse?" Simply because they'll never get better, only worse as I get older. I've been lucky in that for the last, probably 8 years they've been stable. A day wasted as I sit in a waiting room, with drops in my eyes that makes almost any light unbearable, only to be seen by a professor for 10-20 minutes. Such is the life of someone with such bad eye sight.

You, me and the binary.

Posted October 13, 2003 - 12:38am

The "smileys" mod is installed on this drupal site now. Up and running, though only with the example emoticons. Planning on using some of these ones, but if anyone has any suggestions for other emoticons that they'd like offer up, go ahead. Oh, yeah, and some of these example ones will be trashed, but I just haven't had the chance to go through them yet.

I found myself wondering today that as I post more stories, the comments on the old stories will be left with the stories and eventually not be seen on the main page. Wondering what good could come of this, I clicked on the "view recent posts" link in the account box and I'm presented with a nice way of showing where recent comments have been posted. Who would have thunk it? Anyway, with the tracker discussions will be able to go on even if the story is no longer on the front page.

A new poll is required, I think... Wonder what it could be. I also wonder if I should even keep the polling system.

Up up and, ooo, chicken...

Posted October 9, 2003 - 10:53pm

Updated the drupal system that runs this whole website today, bit of an effort simply because of the way I've got it set up and the fact that this isn't my server, I'm only hosted on it. I don't even think there were any changes... What was the point?

Hmm, my drink is empty, that ain't good.

Started to work on the theme a bit more today, was trying out a few things and was going to put one to work, but I got side tracked, and I'm too apathetic right now to care about it... I mean, make any changes.

Oh, one good thing about running the latest version of drupal, I'll now be able to install the image and smilies mods. With the images mod, I'll actually be able to add content to this site. Even if that content is only a few crappy photos that I've taken.

Okay, I'm going to refill my drink now.

Oh, yeah... And ssdd.

Adding Content Requires Having Content

Posted October 7, 2003 - 11:44pm

Having a few problems trying to get the boxes on the right to look exactly how I want them too, damn HTML and CSS won't play nicely and let there be a dashed border around things. Tomorrow, I'll see if it wants to play nice and I'll bring back the curvy corners on the boxes to the right, and hopefully have individual news posts looking better.

That's the plan at least.

What the hell will I post about when I'm done making this site look better? It will probably just go back to never being updated for months at a time, much like the old d.v.o. Unless I was to, y'know, actually develop a life or something. Though, I'd rather not update this place like some people update their "blog" as anybody that wants to know that much about my life can bloody-well ask me.

This world has turned into "reality" based everything, from television shows, to reading about people's lives on the Internet. Are people in the world really lacking in their own life that they require a need to watch, read and hear about the life and times of, well... Nobodies?

Of course I write this, as a post on a website that undoubtedly somebody would read, perhaps random, making me a hypocrite. Oh well, if you can't fuck up your own rants, who's can you fuck up?

ssdd

Them lil' doughnuts

Posted October 2, 2003 - 12:51am

Welp, that's one thing fixed on this site. Them lil' doughnuts are all fixed up and no longer have the bad aliasing. I'd rather the background colour on them be transparent, but that wasn't to be.

Ten whole users floating around here now, that's a big number. So, who's got something to say? I can use all the bytes.

Perhaps a few more design changes will come of this place tomorrow... Make that later today. Nothing big, still working on a site design that I can say I really like. Oh well.

SSDD

So this is it?

Posted September 30, 2003 - 11:00am

Yeah, this is it. This is what took months of "work" to get in place.

But truth be told, it was complete and utter laziness on my part that kept me from completing the meager thing you see before you. Now that it's public and the masses will flock to it (hah!) I'll do some more things to it to make it more functional.

I've still got to set up the "smilies" mod for drupal (the system that this site works on) and install "image" for my photo gallery. Perhaps I'll even have something to say that I can post here. But lets not say anything we'll regret later.

Clearly the poll needs something a little more... Useful, but when you get nobody voting on such things I wonder if I'll even keep it going. Oh, and you'll have to create an account and log into it if you want to leave comments on any of these stories. And for those of you that had an account on this site before it went public, you'll have to log in again.

More Procrastination

Posted August 27, 2003 - 11:31pm

Once again I come here and I find that nothing new has come about. No new information up, and even the theme hasn't been worked on passed a few basic CSS changes and a few Drupal preferences set. Perhaps next week something will happen.

At least I've made a post a week so far, which is good, I guess. Finding something to actually say is pushing it though, so a round up of my day.

Spent a long time trying to tune the new strings on my guitar - Yay new strings! Boo tuning them! Takes me way to long to tune my guitars. I also need to devote time each day to just practicing. I stopped my lessons a few weeks ago so I can save a bit of money, but I need to keep up my practice so I don't start playing like a numetal band.

I found a mod for Drupal called "smileys". It changes your regular emoticon into the standard smile-type image. So I'll be installing that and customising my own emoticons soon enough.

Blah blah blah.

SSDD

Things get easier one day, right?

Posted August 14, 2003 - 2:11am

2:15 AM here right now, playing Vice City with a friend and I realise that I've still done fuck all about making this site more pastry like. When I'm in the mood to actually do something with this place, something always happens to change my mood.

If it's raining tomorrow, I'll work some more on this place... If it's not, I'm afraid I'm going to be out in the garden tomorrow pruning back some bushes. Power tools, fun. :)

Anyone know how to get those little tiny doughnuts blending better with the background? They really stand out more than they should and it's quite an annoyance.