Tue | June 05, 2007
dead
This blog is dead.
Posted by Lily at 12:17 AM
Fri | December 29, 2006
A Wonderful Thing Happened on Yahoo Answers
I was twenty points away from Level 4 and I posted a question in Polls and Surveys asking if I could get some thumbs ups on my Best Answers (you get one point for every thumbs up). It costs five points for asking a question so I was actually 25 points away then. But it totally worked! I spent five points and got 18 in return. Meanwhile I answered four more questions (8 points) and wound up one point into Level 4 territory.
I wasn't sure it would work because there's nothing in it for you pointwise for giving a thumbs up. But I got eleven responses from people who said they would and in just a few minutes I was done. It would have taken about twice as long to find ten questions to answer. I know because I kept answering questions in the meantime and by the time I had done four I was at 2,501. And finally I stopped, because the whole time I had been just telling myself when I got to level 4 I would stop. And I was stuck, addicted, to the site, unable to disconnect, because I was close to this next level. Finally I was twenty points away and so burnt out, didn't want to find more questions to answer, didn't want to do it any more, but knew I wouldn't stop until I had sooner or later gotten those last few points. And I thought, I wonder if I could get these people on this site who are just killing time, to help me out. It was fun just to see the little java image telling me I was getting points. And so reassuring to not have to do it alone, because I do too much alone, and have trouble especially at the ends of things.
Though I will not get credit for it, will never be remembered as the one who officially thought of this, who was the first one to post that question, I am sure that people will ask for thumbs to push them into the next level, the next time they see themselves on the cusp. As long as no one else takes credit for it, I won't be unhappy.
Posted by Lily at 02:20 PM
Mon | October 30, 2006
la belle au bois dormant
PUKE. I can't believe I watched this while growing up.
YouTube - Snow White - I'm Wishing/One Song (French)
I remember this one even better. C'est comme la Blanche Neige et les sept nains. Une fille est seule, et un mec la trouve.
Sleeping Beauty (French) Once Upon a Dream
Posted by Lily at 08:58 AM
Thu | October 26, 2006
Yahoo Answers
Yahoo! Answers – Get answers, ask questions, find information - Home
It's now been eight days since I joined Yahoo Answers on Wednesday at around 1 am. I had watched that movie on television, and was looking for the title, and then the ending. Actually I joined earlier, over the summer. But then dropped it after two questions, and now picked it up again and really started looking into it. I think I have wasted a lot of time, like maybe twenty hours' worth, over the past week. Seriously. But I try not to be too hard on myself-- to think of it as a modern web experience, rather than beat myself over the head with it like I have been doing. I really need to stop though. Last night I was up til 4 am just reading people's stupid questions and more stupid answers.
The hooks of Yahoo Answers: a point system. This is something that Yelp, which I've recently also wasted tons of time on, doesn't have. Every day you log onto Yahoo Answers you get a point. You get two points for answering a question, one point for voting on a best answer, and ten points for being voted as the best answer. You spend five points if you want to ask a question. So basically for every thing you ask of people, you have to give two or three things in return. Some people don't care, they ask away and they have negative points. But not me. I have asked several questions and I've also answered many more to keep my balance up. In addition there are levels. I am only ten points from level 2. Then I will stop. Really.
Another hook: the fact that you aren't really doing anything, and yet have the illusion of doing something. Most of the time you are combing the beach for interesting questions, clicking on them and waiting the 2.5 seconds or whatever for the page to load. Not a lot of time but it adds up. Even moving the pointer over to the link, this is time. And most of your time on Yahoo Answers consists of this sort of activity. Then you are reading the full question and the answers. Most of the answers are basically the same. But there is something immediately addictive about reading seventeen variations on a theme. You aren't doing much new by reading each one. And yet there is the gradual progress of reading them. It's a bit OC (obsessive compulsive) I think. To reconsider something in seventeen repetitions. The hook is these very small pieces, this gradual progress.
Finally, most of the questions are things you have on your mind. Where should I eat in New York? And relationships questions. Friends. Television. Dating. Anything. It's all questions asked by people, and the fact is you do have a lot of the same questions on your mind as other people. What I like is that you get questions like Should I quit my job? Why don't I have friends like the ones I see on tv? that aren't "info" questions and yet these are some of the most compelling, and are more important than the ones asking for esoteric facts.
Actually the ultimate hook may be that my mind is naturally inclined towards questions, and focused on the unknown. Yahoo Answers plays towards some of my primary characteristics: the desire to know, for concrete signs of progress (a points system), and to communicate (with the real people asking and answering and reading). Also the organization of questions into categories [some of which are notably lacking (for example the "Dining Out" category is subdivided into countries, which is fine, but then only into the major cities of the U.S. So basically NJ is left out, and falls into the "other" category where you get a bunch of miscellaneous places. You could always do a search for NJ but it should have its own category.)] .
So I spent much of yesterday numbly playing Literati and reading people's questions. At least it took me down suddenly, instead of in a minor and insidious way, like Yahoo Mail does. I only check email once a day now because I realize it's such a waste of time. And I have three accounts to check so that's actually three times. Sometimes I do another round at night. But I try to keep it down whenever I can remember. Eventually I slip and end up checking it several times a day, but then catch myself and realize I'm doing nothing but emailing. So at least the effect of Yahoo Answers is obvious, and I know I need to get off this thing. Forums in general, or research, or anything where you are reading reviews or clicking for answers, for info, take a lot of time. They are all such time-wasters, better not to do any of them.
Plus the people up there aren't that bright. One look at the "sociology" category proves it. And the relationships category is swamped with children. They should really separate it into teens and adults. I can't really say I'm "learning" anything, but instead confirming or meditating on some of my thoughts, and realizing what I do have worked out. There is something beneficial about helping others, because thinking of how to explain it to them helps you sort it out for yourself. Most of the time, though, I am just reading about what people think of sushi.
Posted by Lily at 05:10 PM
Fri | September 29, 2006
le raccordement lent d'Internet
le raccordement lent d'Internet (particulièrement quand il pleut?)-- il frustre.
Posted by Lily at 12:01 AM
Sun | September 24, 2006
il ferait cool
It would be cool if there were a program that lets you click on words you know. Check em off, and then it'll show you words you don't know.
I finished reading all my "word a day" newsletters, from m-w.com, dictionary.com, and wordsmith.org. I had been filtering them to a folder at some point and they got all piled up and then I stopped. But I'm all caught up now. So I feel a bit better for having "accomplished" something (i.e. read the last of the unread messages) but it was still a pretty sorry weekend. I went to the park and jumped around on the rocks, for about ten seconds, that was sorta fun. Anyway reading through those newsletters I know most of those words so it would be cool if there were a program that would only show words that I don't know. Not that there is no benefit to looking at those words but it would be nice to be able to see a list of words that are new to me.
Also, a customized, customizable, associated words thesaurus. You make your own lists of words that mean around the same thing to you, and then also can create relationships or links to other words, that may not mean the same thing, but are associated, perhaps because they are used in similar situations. And you could create categories of words, like, "words used to describe food." Naturally, a word should be able to be tagged with any number of categories. And rank words by strength/ severity/ extremeness.
I feel like this should not be too difficult to do, and yet... it is beyond me. Perhaps I need to convince a CS graduate student to take it on as a thesis project. Or an employee of Google.
Posted by Lily at 01:37 AM
Wed | September 20, 2006
un nouveau jour férié
This Friday is "One Web Day." I am not sure what makes a holiday catch on or not. A mascot? A type of food? I think this holiday needs an official food, to have staying power. Also, rituals and mythology... and branding.
Posted by Lily at 02:41 AM
Tue | August 22, 2006
la chanson préférée du moment
par Zazie - Zen - Larsen
Posted by Lily at 12:39 PM
Thu | May 25, 2006
AIM
If you want to cultivate the obsessive compulsive elements of your personality, sign up for AIM. Add a bunch of people you barely know to your "buddy" list. Watch your "buddies" log on and off.
Begin the obsession. You know when they're online. They know when you're online. You know that they know, and you detect patterns in their online behavior as well as your own. You know what time they go to lunch, whether they get to work early, and whether they leave late.
Once it has a hold on you, try to communicate about your life via the patterns of your computer habits. Say "I am a night person" by staying on late. Or log off at 11, even though you are still online, because you don't want them to know you're up.
But remember you barely know them; you hardly talk to them. It is like being in a crowded place and having someone walk by and brush ever so barely by. Maybe you didn't even touch-- just your clothes did, or the air was disrupted between you. You want to talk but you never do. You just keep walking by, and watching each other. And wondering if the other one is watching or if it was all just a coincidence.
You brush shoulders virtually by being online at the same time as they are. Once you see someone online at a certain time you try to be online at about the same time the next day. If that doesn't work you try again for one or two more days, and also the same day next week. You want a pattern but sometimes there isn't one. You log on hoping a person will be online and they're not and you're disappointed. Vengeful, you try to be random too.
You aren't random. You're in front of the screen all the time. You're obsessed, remember? You start to use away messages and invisibility and linked screennames. These are things you used to not bother with but now they give you something to do. You put up an away message knowing full well that no one was going to try to IM you anyway.
Stop.
Posted by Lily at 06:31 PM
Tue | May 23, 2006
html
G. asked me whether she should take up painting as an outlet for her energy. I said painting is expensive and involves a lot of cleanup, which knowing her, I think she wouldn’t like. I suggested photoshop and html.
Html has come in handy in all sorts of ways. It gave me a role in the Brown club-- I webmastered brownnyc.org for a couple of years, which really solidified my familiarity with html. At the same time I attended a lot of the club events, which for awhile gave me an illusion of having something to do, until I figured out that they were irrelevant and what I really wanted to do was write. I don't view the time spent there as a waste, or not a complete waste, or maybe it was... but at any rate the webmastering part wasn't, because I got really good at basic html and when I had gotten good at it, I did it for awhile longer, and then I stopped.
Around this time last year, I found out about movable type and decided to try and install it. It's not html, but knowing html makes me generally unafraid of other web-tech stuff. I had enough skills to install movable type and pick up on their coding system, style sheets, etc. It was rewarding just to successfully get the system up and running, and to this day I feel a sense of accomplishment every time I log on.
As a result of MT, I have invisiblecube.com and asianwriting.org, which are nice additions to my small collection of websites. As an outlet, websites and blogs are a stable solution, as long as you don't expect anyone to visit or respond. To me, creating the blog or website is enough of a reward, and when people do respond it's bonus points.
In addition to big things like creating blogs and websites and webmastering, html is handy in all sorts of smaller situations, like formatting my friendster profile, sending email messages in html, and posting to message boards. It comes up in all sorts of everyday online situations.
It does take some patience, however. After I stopped webmastering the Brown club website, we went through a half dozen 'webmasters' who had less clue than I did when I first started, and perhaps just a little less interest, and it just wasn't enough for them to stick. It was tough to watch them crash and burn but I knew I'd regret it if I wasted my time giving them full courses in webmastering and html. Instead I gave each one enough to get started-- more guidance than I ever got-- and then left them to figure the rest out on their own. It made me realize that it does take awhile to figure out all the little things and put them together, and that I had come a long way.
And I still have a long way to go-- but the bits that I know are useful. This is one of the reasons why html is a good hobby. There is always much more to learn and grow into, but I don’t need it in order to benefit from what I currently know. One of these days I might sit down with a javascript book, or a website about css, and just learn it through and through. But until then, I benefit on a regular basis from what I have already acquired, which in the grand scheme of all html and web related things, isn't actually that much.
Posted by Lily at 06:32 PM
Tue | March 14, 2006
wi-fi
I set up a wireless router and got internet for my laptop yesterday. A few years ago my mom got a router, which I attempted to set up, failed, called customer service, got frustrated, and quit. This time I felt frustrated even at the thought of picking up the phone and having to go through it all again. I remembered that I literally couldn't understand what the person, an Indian dude, was saying. And I am relatively good, and fairly patient, with that sort of thing.
I waited until after lunch when I would have food coma and be too sedated to have the energy to be angry if the person was frustrating. Also, I went to Johnny Rockets with Henry. That put me in a good and stable mood. It happened to come together. So even though I waited about half an hour to get through and then was on the phone with the person for about an hour, I wasn't very frustrated. It's all about managing expectations, too, because I was ready for it to take that long. And maybe they got better at speaking English and I got better at understanding Indian-accented English.
The only thing I am uncertain about is that I deleted my Bryant Park setup, despite my apprehensions, when he told me to delete everything under preferred networks. But I am hardly ever in Bryant Park with my laptop anyway and it would only take a few minutes to set it up again. Also the connection isn't very fast when I was on invisible cube, last night, so there is something to figure out there.
When my mom got home with her laptop I set her up too. I don't even know how I knew. I just looked at some of the same things that I had opened up on mine. View wireless network connections, etc. and then just typing in the WEP key and clicking connect. And uninstalling the software for their wireless card because both our laptops came with cards. In retrospect none if it was that difficult; I don't know why it took that long.
Posted by Lily at 12:14 PM
Tue | February 28, 2006
mt notification
The Movable Type (3.17) notifications feature doesn't send out an email every time someone posts, which is what I initially thought it did.
It gives the poster the option to send out an email containing the post and/or a message and/or an excerpt of the post to everyone on the list.
MT comes with a CGI script by which people can add themselves to the list. The user manual contains HTML for a form using this script. You paste the form into your template, probably in the side menu. (QED- do the MT tags work in an entry/ post?)
Then the manual mentions that you have to define a verification phrase in your mt.cfg file, but doesn't really explain what the hell that means. Generally, movable type gives you the information but doesn't always tell you what to do with it. Or actually I find this is true with most computer/ tech stuff. It's just the way it's written.
1. Download your mt.cfg file (I transferred in binary mode, which I think is correct, but I have trouble remembering the difference between binary and ASCII because I don't actually know the reason behind it)
2. Open with Wordpad.
- At the end, put the line
EmailVerificationSecret putwordhere
where "putwordhere" is your hard to guess verification phrase.
Notes:
No quotes are needed.
Don't misspell "verification," as I did and then spent about an hour trying to figure out what might be wrong.
- Uncomment the line
# EmailAddressMain name@domain.com
Put whatever address you want people to see the verification email coming from. Mine is from postmaster@asianwriting.org
3. Upload the file.
Posted by Lily at 07:48 PM
Fri | December 02, 2005
opium on wikipedia
So I got all excited when I wikipediaed Opium and it wasn't up there.
So I wrote an entry for Opium.
It's the only thing I've contributed to Opium, besides sitting at readings and making those around me feel awkward.
It's also the only thing I've contributed to the phenomenal Wikipedia.
Posted by Lily at 01:16 AM
Tue | October 04, 2005
movable type 3.2 etc.
I now have dreamweaver on my laptop, along with a bunch of other macromedia programs, which is pretty cool, though I don't think I'll have much reason to use it.
I rearranged a lot of the programs on my start menu and now I'm afraid my computer will spontaneously combust.
It took me til now to read the movable type news, from 8.25.05, that they have released movable type 3.2. I am probably supposed to be excited about this because it has new features, but I'm kind of like, I can't keep up with this. I haven't had time to settle into movable type as it is, and now they are changing it already. but I think it will be ok for me to just use what I have, and not worry about keeping up with it until I am ready.
or did I know about this? now that I'm thinking about it I think I already knew. it is probably somewhere in my blog twenty posts ago. I am just thinking about it again.
I am also thinking about making a photoblog. just to see if I can.
you can waste a lot of time doing this stuff.
Posted by Lily at 03:03 PM | comment
Sat | September 24, 2005
my night with movable type
I just spent three hours tweaking my movable type templates for invisible cube and asian writing club. The result-- footers at the bottom of every page, and the entry titles are links to the entry. Yeaayyyy. I don't know why it takes so long. You tell yourself you're just going to do this little thing while you eat dinner. Half hour, an hour, tops. You change the template, and then you have to change the style sheet, and then you have to change all the other templates to match, and rebuild everything, and then it doesn't work and it's all messed up and you're like noooooo why did I make all those changes at once? Then you go back and change everything again, until you get what you want. And I made a lot of other tweaks at the asian writing blog as well, though I don't even remember what they were at this point.
What's really sad is that this is the only noticeable progress I've made all day. I had SAT class in the morning and then I had to pick up some stuff for the GRE class starting tomorrow (even though I had already been there earlier in the week-- ahhh! DC was like, three new people signed up, pick up their cards) and then lunch, and then I literally sat on my bed and thought and dozed for three hours. I sat on my bed to think of what I wanted to do. No matter how many times I learn that you shouldn't sit or lie down on your bed "to think," I forget and do it again. And once you're in that state of mind you wake up intermittently but you're all drowsy so you just go back to sleep.
I had two invitations of things-to-do tonight, and didn't take either of them up. I don't think I went out last weekend either. It was Lynn's b-day. And I didn't go to her fashion show on Thurs. I don't know why. I think I get caught in a rut, of unproductivity, and have a hard time breaking out of it. I'm in it now still. But I will be out all day tomorrow.
Posted by Lily at 08:47 PM | comment
Sun | September 18, 2005
friendster
I'm logged onto friendster (I only allow myself to log on once a month, a somewhat arbitrarily imposted restriction... with many exceptions) and there is this weird-cool new feature where it makes a web diagram of how you're connected to people. Anyhow I think friendster is kind of dead and over and they're bringing out all these new features too much too late, though it does look a lot better than it did before and is less buggy. or boggy. quicker linking.
Posted by Lily at 06:37 PM | comment
Sun | August 14, 2005
asian writing club multi-user blog
I am going in circles trying to decide whether to install moveable type in the asianwriting.org directory. I think I am hesitating because I remember it was kind of intense and scary when I installed mt at invisiblecube. the easiest thing to do would be to just use the movable type that's installed here. the only difference would be that the log in would be at invisiblecube.com instead of at asianwriting.org. that is, the website would show up at asianwriting but people would enter posts through invisiblecube. I think I know that in the long run it will be better to have it at asianwriting, but I remember that it took like two half-days to install it and it might have been just luck that I didn't do anything wrong, and at any rate it was kind of exhausting. and I am not even sure how many users you can have on the blog. there doesn't appear to be a limit. there probably isn't. I am just making up excuses to delay things until I know more or whatever and I should get over it and go.
Posted by Lily at 09:48 PM | comment
Fri | August 12, 2005
net zone
the music at net zone is on the radio and it's lite fm.
[ ] bring earplugs
on the plus side, it has forced me to notice they have headphones here and i'm listening to launchcast, instead, sort of, though i can still hear the other music in the background. also they have a webcam so i've turned that on, and it's broadcast through yahoo messenger.
mostly this is negative though and the music and commercials are making me angry.
Posted by Lily at 02:31 PM | comment
Wed | August 10, 2005
my website
it's not really finished, but here is the latest lilyhuang.com: http://www.lilyhuang.com
I seem to remake lilyhuang.com every several months, and I am going to try to keep this one around. or at least save it on my hard drive instead of just deleting it. I need to polish the image a bit. or more likely, redo it more carefully.
Posted by Lily at 06:35 PM | comment
Fri | August 05, 2005
net zone
at net zone in k-town. I love this place. The lighting is at just the right level and the music is usu pretty good. I should just cave in and get a membership.
(more later)
Posted by Lily at 02:12 PM | comment
Tue | August 02, 2005
my webhost
I like them, even though I usually don't know what the heck they're talking about in their newslettery. They're always like, now you can do this and that! And I'm like, ok whatever that means. But I think I like knowing that whatever it is I might want to do in the future, I can probably do it without changing webhosts. Like this blog-- the perl modules or whatever I forgot what they were, were already installed on the Dreamhost server. I'm sure that's pretty common with webhosts but then again maybe it's not. I'm pretty sure it's not ok with my yahoo account. Or maybe it is. But no, I don't think so. I get basically nothing with that. I like yahoo for other reasons and kind of have an account with them just for the heck of it.
I haven't used Dreamhost's tech support very much but the times I've had they've been pretty helpful. I tend to figure out most everything myself though and just email them if I'm really confused. I feel like they are almost too nice and would help me even more if I was too lazy to figure it out myself. They even have this drop down menu in their tech support form where you select "I'm an idiot" "I know a little," or "I know a lot," or that's not what the choices say of course but it's something to that effect, so if you wanted to just not think at all you could be an idiot and I suppose they would hold your hand through it. Though that also takes time because often reading the explanation takes longer than just figuring it out yourself. I think in general with web stuff it is better to be smart. Which is actually not true of everything in life.
I get a referral bonus if people sign up with lily_huang as their referrer, or (so they say) if someone gets to the website by clicking a link from this site.
When I signed up it was through a link on giantrobot.com but I have no way of knowing whether they actually got anything out of it.
Posted by Lily at 09:33 PM | comment
Sat | July 30, 2005
internet cafe
found the best internet place, on eldridge between, i guess, broome and grand streets. there's another one a bit further down also. $5 gets you 4 hrs. there's some younger kids here which shows how affordable it is. and there's a few private rooms/ chambers too, which are kind of questionable, maybe, but not really. i'd move because one just opened up a few minutes ago but i don't feel like it. i'm just killing time, i suppose, and burning cash before going to my writing club "party." I kind of just want to go to sleep at this point, but it's already all decided and I should go, and at 9 pm, even. the funny thing is i think people might actually be there at 9. it is at a bar which happens to be about two blocks away from here.
Posted by Lily at 07:49 PM | comment
Mon | July 25, 2005
favicon
Well, I made a favicon/ bookmark icon. It was fun. It doesn't quite do everything I want it to. Like, appear on the tabs.
I am glad I named this "invisible cube" because it was pretty easy to draw.
Posted by Lily at 11:29 PM | comment
Thu | July 21, 2005
noise-blocking headphones
HeadWize - Project: Revisiting Koss "The Plug" Headphones by Chu Moy
I can't believe there are people who do stuff like this. Not just alter the headphones but make a website about it. I mean I think it's cool. I think I might do this. Not the website but this little project. In the meantime my current traveling headphones pretty much suffice, but I'd like to get some big headphones for in the house.
Posted by Lily at 07:42 PM | comment
Thu | July 14, 2005
firefox
So I thought of putting a link to firefox the other day after someone asked me about it, but it seemed like everyone must know about firefox. and yet not one, but two people have asked me about it this week.
Firefox is better than explorer because it has these tabs that enable you to surf many webpages at once. The bookmarks toolbar is also really useful, as you can save a whole set of pages in a folder and go back to them later (select 'open in tabs' in the dropdown menu).
Try it, you will like it. You will like it so much you will get annoyed when you have to use explorer.
p.s. another cool feature of firefox: if you push F11 you can fill the whole screen with the website. it's so liberating to look at a site sans title bar and taskbar. it's like the view> full screen feature in word.
oh wait, actually I tried it just now in explorer and it works there too.
Posted by Lily at 01:27 AM | comment
Thu | July 07, 2005
boots n all
so the reason I keep adding links to this blog is I am using something called quickpost, which creates a link to whatever site you were on. You write a little post in a popup window, instead of leaving what you were doing entirely to post through the movable type interface.
this site (bootsnall.com) has a lot of blogs on it. I learned about it through an avuncular, generous fellow named Larry Habegger, who spoke at a free Gotham Writer's workshop at Coliseum books.
I decidedly don't like Gotham Writer's workshop, though. The people who answer the phone are petty and difficult to deal with. Every phone call I've had with them (there have been three) has left me thirsty for vengeance.
Posted by Lily at 11:46 AM | comment
Fri | July 01, 2005
things I'd like to do with this blog
consider changing the color scheme-- it's currently the default, which means many people have blogs that look exactly the same as mine.
except, of course, my blog has a lot of little customizations and tweaks, and this amazing rotating-cube flash file
which happens to match the current color scheme.
so I think this blog looks perfect the way it is, and yet I don't want it to look exactly the same as the default-- what to do?
to do
[ ] search for color schemes already done, for ideas
[ ] try new colors and stare at them, decide if they are better
[ ] figure out how approval works on comments (and how to alter it)
[ ] make a bookmark icon
[ ] back up files
[ ] consider using a diff font for the banner
hmmm... that's it for now. I already spent like two hours the other day (seriously) just trying to modify the unordered list type (<ul type="square"> wasn't working) for one particular list (my new sticky posts list) in the sidebar. finally, I tested the square shape in the style sheet and realized I didn't really want a square anyway (it was too bold and dark) and manually typed in an ◊ (which is the little diamond shape ◊) which is much better.
so I might experiment with the color scheme on some day when no one will be surfing the web, like July 4th. it's either that or go experience suburban/ modern-american quiet desperation in full force at the neighborhood bbq. actually I happen to really like the neighbors. a few of them happen to be very intelligent. but I never talk to them/ they never talk to me/ we never talk to each other. I feel it even more acutely when (if) I convene with them annually. it's like, what do I say to you? I can't even talk to you. I know nothing about you. I know you're much more than this recitation of news headlines but there's no way to get there.
I might create a new blog and just experiment there. it's kind of an out of the way way of doing things, but the thing i've realized about movable type is that you can't work on the files, preview them on your computer and upload them when you're done and ready; you pretty much have to get to an internet connection and edit through a browser. people who've been checking in on this site over the past week might have noticed little changes/ signs of construction while I worked. or not. (who am I kidding, no one was reading, and anyone who was wouldn't have noticed. and I know that no one wants to know about how I decided between a square bullet and a ◊)
once everything's all set up and decided of course I won't have to make any more changes to the templates. actually I think I'm pretty much done customizing this blog. there's other stuff I want to do with it (see list of 3 above) but I think I should try NOT to do them. I've put a lot of time into it over the past couple of weeks and I need to stop.
revisions I've made*:
- entry footers-- modified posted by, comment link, everything really. added category link to footer.
- modified order of elements in sidebar; probably deleted some elements I didn't like; added sticky posts
- modified style sheet to include <h4> for motto quote; familiarized self with style sheet
- made comments visible on same page as the entries
- revised comment fields
- set up quickpost on laptop, desktop, and at K
- found this super-cool cube swf (shockwave flash), used my incredible cut and paste skills to install it on all my template pages.
*not necessarily listed in order they were done, though at times roughly so
Posted by Lily at 03:10 PM | comment
Thu | June 30, 2005
launchcast
my online radio station of the moment. who knows how long before I get bored of this. however, not I'm listening to it at the moment, because I'm at cafe muse and they are playing music in another language. yay. and the apple bread is good. yum. what am I doing here? nothing. just need to be here because I'd feel drained if I went straight home. unfortunately i'm basically having cake and pastries for dinner.
Posted by Lily at 06:57 PM | comment
Thu | June 23, 2005
awesome
yaaaayy!!!!!! YEAH!! yes. (whew)
I can't believe I did all that. That was crazy. Seriously, installing Moveable Type is no joke. I had to like, configure cgi files. I think those are perl files. No, I don't even know. I don't remember. Anyway that was scary. That was like jumping off a cliff. and hanging there in the air for like four hours. That was great. I want to go again. I'm going to do something else now though. I'll have to think later, of what I want to do with this now that I have it. I might just keep my friendster blog, and start a different blog using MT. or, migrate my friendster blog to this blog. Now I've got to go. I didn't intend to work on this all afternoon but once I got started I just kept going. And now it's done. Yeah. I'm buzzin' right now.