14 October 2005 @ 10:17 pm
This Update Has No Title Because It Doesn't.  
Gwah. Ugh and rah and ech.

This is the second day I've spent trying to organize my homepage to effect a change from .html to .php, and I still haven't finished. It's not just a matter of changing file extensions, it's changing links, html tags and layouts to conform with the new layout. .php script doesn't seem to like some of the tags I've been using, for some reason. It's a simple enough matter to change them, but changing them takes ages.

With any luck I'll be able to upload the thing tomorrow. Though that's a moot as I'll need to get my landlady's son to disable the firewall on this PC before my FTP program will be able to connect to the servers. Which takes all of about five minutes and is something I would be perfectly capable of doing by myself, but because he won't give me administrator privileges on this PC I have to ask him to do it. Which is stupid when you think about it, because he doesn't like my pestering him to do simple things like that on this PC - but he's made it so I can't do them myself, never mind that I'm perfectly capable of doing them myself, simply because... well, I have no idea what the rationale behind it is.

(Crap, I'm listening to 'Moonflower' again. Over and over and over.)

I can see that changing from one .php layout to another .php layout will be easy as anything, but changing from .html to .php is giving me gray hairs. Thank God, she said meaningfully, for hair dye, because .php script will make me OLD BEFORE MY TIME.

Anyway.

Was there a point to this update aside from the fact that it will allow me to point at it and say 'I updated!'. I'm beginning to doubt it. I want to do a [livejournal.com profile] marysues report. Don't ask me why. I just do. On the other hand, can I be bothered? Sue reports take a long time and always end up making me explode with hate.

... too late, I caved. I cannot believe how many Weiss Sues there are out there and every single one of them an abhorrent stain on what remains of the good name of my poor fandom, which is really only good for slash anyway if you want to stay even vaguely IC (Weiss is funny that way; slash often seems far more IC than true romance). Come on, every single time the guys try and get involved with someone else she either leaves or dies or leaves and dies. Well, I guess it beats making dolls on Candybar until my brain turns into a small piece of pink fluff.

I'm so hungry I'm starting to feel all wibbly. Correction, I'm not hungry at all; I'm just feeling vague and trembly and am starting to typo like a good'un. I suspect I'm getting hypoglycemic. Oh for a BM machine and a test strip. I want to check my blood sugar god dammit! But instead, I think I'll go make a sandwich in the hope of staving off a hypoglycemic coma. Ah, nursing, but you are no career for a hypochondriac. All these wonderful new diseases I have been informed about! Must go eat now. I think this entry's beyond redemption anyway. I didn't have anything to talk about at all, did I? Obviously not.

I want to finish my SchuKen rape fic, but the homepage is precluding it. Ah well. Maybe tomorrow. I can't see the .php stuff taking that much longer. Or the rape fic, for that matter. Oh well, we'll see. Food and Mary Sues, here I come!

*goes to make and eat sandwich and forget all about this strangely uninformative post.*
 
 
Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: moonflower - seki tomokazu (yet again)
 
 
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[identity profile] vermachtnis.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2005 03:05 am (UTC)
I'm sorry it's taking so long! I should have stuck with frames and html, I'm sorry! Forgive me?

It's probably not the php that's making certain tags not work- it's probably the css. But that really can't be helped, because if the css is changed it'll ruin the whole appearance of the layout. But it does make it really simple to change layouts once it's all in php, I promise!
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2005 03:24 am (UTC)
Don't worry! I can tell it's going to be just fine to switch from .php playout to .php layout (even if it will probably mean asking you to do my next layout as welll... *looks awkward*).

I'm just having trouble with tags and tables, as they need a little editing to make the changeover nice and neat. The css doesn't seem to like the [p] tag, which I used a lot. I've been having to change them all to [br], which is taking a little time. Also, before I figured out what I was doing wrong, the font in all my tables was looking utterly cracked out as it didn't match the font on the rest of thepage. And I have a lot of tables. Part of it, though, is me being a perfectionist and taking the opportunity to tweak my .html to make some of my pages look a little neater. It's going to be fine once it's done though, so thanks! I really appreciate it; it's a great layout. I've just got a few more pages to fiddle with and then I'll be all set to upload. There are a couple of things I need to finish up.

Rather embarassingly, I don't actually have anything much in the way of new content... but oh well, I'll do something else for it someday. Maybe I'll bash out a quick rant on why my OTP is the OTP to end all OTPs tomorrow. Oh, and I've got four parts of a multi-part rant on Insane Weiss Fanfic Conventions to stick up, so I'll bung them up as well. I haven't finished all of it, but they're being posted as seperate essays anyway. Maybe I'll stick up an MST or two as well and sod being polite and asking, the one I'm almost done with hasn't been worked on in years.

(Oh, and then of course there's the SchuKen rape fic which souldn't take much longer. I'm on page 18, about halfway though the penultimate section, and it's angst so that's easy. The last section's just angst too, so I can't see it being all too tricky. Must... finish... evil... fanfic...)
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[identity profile] quentin-w.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2005 03:30 am (UTC)
Hiya!!!! I'm in a super hyper and giddy mood!! I hope to pass it along to as many people with it as possible!

I hope you're feeling alright!

I'm fixing up my userinfo page, and i would like to put you under the special friends portion, but i need a good icon to link to you, if that's okay with you. Do you mind? And i don't mind having Ken on my userinfo page either! ^^
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2005 03:35 am (UTC)
Feeling fine. Just answering a few comments before heading to bed as it's so late over here that it's early and I really need to see about getting a bit of sleep. I am having Crazy Internet Fun here, though, and am loath to abandon it instanter when I would far rather be playing around on the oh-so-addictive Live Journal service of Joy and Bliss.

So yeah, I'm feeling fine fine fine.

That's fine with me - it's actually pretty flattering, so go right ahead! :) As to my icon, well... I'd be perfectly contented with my default, it's the one I like best (which is largely why it's my default). Glad to hear you don't mind having my obsessive fangirl, um, obsessions on your poor user info page. What you're doing to it sounds really neat. I love your new icons by the way - such fun. Ayumi looks very pretty in that picture there, and don't even get me started on Koda Kumi... ^^
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[identity profile] quentin-w.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2005 02:05 pm (UTC)
Same with me! The internet is my newest source or hyper giddy fun! ^^

Yay! That's good you're in better spirits, we all need a change in scenery...

Everyone else seems to put up with my obsessions so why not branch out! I've been on 5 yr old mode ever since i started making those icons and messing around with my userinfo page...

Hope you're website design is going well...gosh why can't coding be more user friendly sometimes...but remember the best part is finishing and staring at the finished product in complete awe for days on end! ^^
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[identity profile] nuitari4pwnage.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2005 04:07 am (UTC)
I feel the need to friend you. Is that okay?

And Weiss Sues can't be that bad. Now my fandom of choice, DMC, has about 1 suefic out of every 2 fics at last count. I hope to join you in your plight.

...Please?
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[identity profile] sevendials.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2005 04:14 am (UTC)
That's absolutely fine. May I return the favor?

The thing about Weiss is we didn't used to get Sues. I've been in this fandom at least five years (though it's only recently I started getting active) and prior to the US DVD release we didn't have this problem with Sues. Lame slash fics and stupid parodies, sure, but Sue fics? Not really. Now they're breeding like bunnies and it leaves me very dispirited, largely because Weiss is one of the few fandoms out there in which slash is far more logical, given the premise, than finding true romance with miss wonderful could ever be.

(It doesn't help that the Sues are usually bestest assassin EVAH and outclass all the regulars at both their day- and night jobs whilst being deeply perfect and beautiful and angsting far more legitimately than any of the other characters have any right to. The problem here is that the canon characters have a lot of angst as it is, but Sues always have to out-angst the regulars so they immediately feel sorry for her, with predictable and hideous results as the Sue's back story instantly becomes so overblown and wangsty it's impossible to take seriously.)

Feel free to join me. Misery loves company. ^^
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[identity profile] goddess-triad.livejournal.com on October 15th, 2005 07:46 am (UTC)

I think I've mentioned before how annoyed I become when it comes to dealing to html documents and tags. Seriously, As we speak, I'm asking my sister to make my LJ layout for the month as I am too lazy to do it on my own.

I've seen a lot of Weiss Kreuz Mary Sues. Hell, One authoress took liberty of listing down the names of her sues and who exactly they're paired up with in the intro part of her fic. Couldn't help but find it gassy for some reason. I'm trying to hunt for a few right now. Perfect way to spend semestral break besides burying yourself in a pile of your favorite books.

Hmmm... I miss making candybar dollmaker dolls. That maybe a good idea while I go hunt for a new good play list.
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