Evil Spreads

So, my best-friend-in-the-whole-wide-world, shan, has gotten herself a livejournal. i wont link directly to it, as i dont know if she would care, but i am SO AMUSED.

she wants to write fanfiction. she has spent the last four hours today reading gilmore girls and alias fanfiction. her soul will soon be eaten, and she will never be the same EVER AGAIN.

i think i am doomed to drag people into fandom. years ago, i used to get mocked by both sisters for watching Buffy and Angel and Roswell. Natalie looooooves Buffy. she used to check the spoiler boards and twop and such. no clue about the fanfic part. melisa loves buffy for Willow and Tara in particular, and i know she reads fanfic.

so am i responsible for this? not really, as i wouldnt dance around singing “hey, watch buffy!” or anything, but i would like to think i had a hand in it.

so now Shan is going to write fanfic. hee! *giggles gleefully*

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DUDE!

i finally figured out how to use a style switcher, which means the spiral looks nothing like it used to..im currently using some of the templates from alex king’s style compitetion, but i plan on making my own. also need to add the stuff that used to be on the sidebar to the menu. does it look ok to everyone? it should cookie-check your skin preference, but im not positive on that. more changes throughout the day! WHOO!

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CSS is the Devil

ive been messing with the css code for a while now. i got very annoyed when the spiral would should up fine in IE, but look all kinds of wonky in Netscape. usually, its the other way around…so finally FINALLY, i noticed i was missing a } at the end of a part of the code.

gah!

so back to more interesting things.

on the spiral, i have lj icons over here. now, at the top, it says to use them however you want, but to save them to your own server in order to use them. why? because 1)its polite and 2) linking directly to it (meaning using html and using an image tag < img src = http://www.silverspiral.net/wormdude.gif" > )uses my bandwidth. everytime that pic has to load (especially in popular places, like a board), it forces more of my resources to work on loading it. now, when im the person using it, i dont care. but when someone else does it, its rude and it costs me money, as i have to pay for additional bandwidth.

so yesterday, i checked my stats, and noticed a few people were hotlinking. so i drop them an email to ask them to either A) save it and upload it to somewhere like photobucket or B) take it down.

one person responds positivly. “Oh sorry! Im saving it right now!”

one person is a pain in the ass. and possibly a seven year old. direct quote: im sry alia i can upgrade stuff im really sry u have aol i do?

i email back and ask them again to remove or upload.
i dont want to ok thats it

i email again and explain that due to their refusel, i am turing on my hotlinking protection, which will prevent them from using it. it just wont show up when they try to link it like that. i still can, but they cant.

you bitch ill get it back from someone nicer and BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*STAB STAB STAB*

also, am in love with wordpress admin page. *swoon* so so pretty and functional!

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Template!

am having template issues again..damn wordpress and their better-ness over b2!

just when i get the darn thing the way i want it!

how does it look to you guys? at the moment, all the posts are about an inch wide and run straight down. i know for a fact its a issue with my .storycontent, but i cant figure out how to edit it to make it cooperate.

also, i need to recreate my catagories. gah. such a pain!

ETA: well, that worked..for me at least. now i have happy boxes again. yay! what does it look like to you?

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Moving to Australia

Am having a bad day.

wiped the whole database, (emailed my host, havent heard back yet), had parent/teacher conferences last night, stayed up too late to finish my ship_manifesto and didnt finish it, couldnt log into the new software today to whine about everything, and i had no breakfast. i also have no lunch.

we have been through round three of interviews in an attempt to locate a paraprofessional who 1)isnt insane, 2)stupid, and 3)fits the schedule. so far, no luck. everyone is too stupid to deal with. and the one guy we liked turned it down.

bastages.

but brandus has a shiny, new computer that his parents got for him. he is very excited. or he would be, if he wasnt also exhausted.

*sigh*

and its my hard day at school. somedays i loathe children.

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