Current Status of Things
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 03:23 p.m.
Jeez, I'm busy lately. Let's see... Risky has been redesigned, but I need to do some scanning so I can add more content. Thanks to help from Sunnshine, I got my newest fanlisting finished. I expect that I will never get a single member, since it's devoted to a single song which I don't think is at all well known. I just wanted an excuse to make apretty layout. I changed tsumetai.net into a WordPress-powered blog, which I have yet to post to or design or anything. I'm not linking to this blog from tsumetai.net anymore, but it will stay at http://girl.tsumetai.net as well as tsumetai.pitas.com - I'm just considering this blog separate from the content on tsumetai.net.
I'm working on sodramatic.net - turning it into a drama-related blog. (Yes, I love WordPress.) The wiki is staying at wiki.sodramatic.net for now. I'm not yet sure if I want to put the necessary effort into making it useful. I'm leaving it where it is for now. I'm hoping people will come along and start adding to it, in which case I'll happily keep hosting it. I will eventually be adding another feature to SoDramatic, but that's a long way off, I think.
I'm perpetually working on 1219 Design. I throw out layouts as fast as I can design them, these days. I'm hoping to find one that will stick through the coding process. I'm also writing my own backend for the site (woo!).
I really need to work on Troublemaker, which will be a Nanase Aikawa fansub project hosted on tsumetai.net. I have some translated lyrics thanks to Tsuki Dreams, and I just need to time the first video and finish the website (which is probably about 80% done). I'm thinking of distributing the files via BitTorrent.
I also have many other small project that need working. Most of my sites need new content added and need some revamping. I want to get my wallpaper site running off a db so it will be easier to update. I need to finish a small site for my sister. And a bunch of other stuff. I have a few people that I REALLY want to email, but I don't know where the time goes. I'm sorry guys, I really am trying to email you. I just suck.
In other news, I've been plagued lately by horrible dreams and insomnia, meaning sleep hasn't exactly been premium quality. I seem to be over the worst of it (I hope!), so I have more energy now than I've had for the past few weeks. Hopefully this means that I'll be getting something done now. My coworker's last day is Friday, which means I'm not expecting to have much free time for the next few weeks. Hopefully, the powers that be will hire someone new quickly, and hopefully the new person will be a quick learner.
What else? I am now mildly addicted to KoL, I got Mars subtitling to work through Virtualdub (but never through TMPGEnc) and I love it. Also got my new cd-printing printer to print nice-looking discs for it. Yay! Am glad now that I bought a dvd player that will play DivX files.
Also: iWant!
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Hee! And OMG I need Subtitles!
Friday, December 31, 2004 - 03:19 p.m.
This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Don't forget to load the stylesheet and read the comments. http://zengarden.20megsfree.com/index.htm *giggle*
Much work to do today - I'm falling short of my self-imposed deadline for Risky's redesign. I'm supposed to have it running by midnight tonight. I think there's an excellent chance I'm not going to make it. Also had inspiration for a layout for 1219design.com which I'd like to work on. The last layout made it to the coding stage before I decided that I hate it and scrapped it. I have to stop doing that. I have a new fanlisting to make, which I'm almost done designing, and I still have two weeks to finish. Need to update layouts on tsumetai.net and sodramatic.net - but who has time? Not me.
Having a strange video problem... I have avi files with srt subs, and I'm trying to make them hard-subbed vcd-mpeg files with VobSub. I have done this before with no problems, but for some reason, VobSub isn't engaging when I try to preview or encode these files. I tested some other files, and the system works fine, so I know my setup is correct. I can play the videos in other players - VobSub engages and the subtitles show. What the heck is going on?
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Bandwidth Thievery
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 - 04:40 p.m.
I'm pulling the mp3 for Zero by Alan Ke You Lun (the theme from the Mars drama) because this site is direct-linking it as a background sound. When I post mp3s, it's because I want to share the music I like with the people reading this journal. I do not post files so other people can use my bandwidth for free. I realize some people don't know this, so here it is: it is incredibly rude to directly link to media files (images, sound pr video files) stored on other people's servers. It can end up costing them money or even get their site shut down. Also, having an automatically loading background sound is annoying and considered by many to be a hallmark of bad web design. I won't be posting any more mp3s until I set up my htaccess files to prevent direct-linking.
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Encyclopedia Dramatica?
Thursday, December 23, 2004 - 10:58 a.m.
I’m into asian dramas. You might have noticed. Then again, you might not have. I don’t talk about it much, because it’s not one of those things you can really explain to people who aren’t also into them, and those who ARE also into them don’t need the explanation. Kind of like anime, a few years back. Or manga or video games or comic books. Or blogging. Which, okay, I don’t make any pretentions at bloggerhood - I’m not relevent or constant or interesting enough to be one of The Bloggers, but I’m cool with that. This journal exists for me, and if it allows a few friends to keep up with me when we haven’t talked for a while, I’m a happy girl. If anyone I don’t know comes here and finds something interesting or helpful in what I’ve said, I’m beyond happy. And if they like my layouts and drop me a compliment, I blush happily for days, because that part is the labor of love for me. The talking is just an excuse to have fun with the pictures every so often.
I’m so prone to going off on a tangent. Sorry about that. I’ll try to stay on topic. My point was that I’m into asian dramas. My tastes lean more toward Korean and Japanese dramas, but I’m all for a good Taiwanese drama. I do trade dramas - I’m working on a site for my trade list, but it’s behind many other projects now. I’ll try to post a quick list sometime soon.
It used to be hard to find good, english-subtitled dramas. Now it seems that it’s just about impossible to keep up with the dramas these days, because there are so many. For a long time, I’ve thought about creating a database for dramas, to catalog and cross-reference dramas, actors, subbers, release groups, lisenced dramas, etc. I wanted to create a site where information about different distribution methods could be explained, easy instuctions for using IRC, setting up an fserve, how to use bittorrent, etc. I realize now that this project is too ambitious to be pulled off by me alone.
I set up a wiki a while back, just to play with it, feel it out. The technology seemed interesting. I think the idea has potential, so I’m making it available to the public. SoDramatic.net is one of my (numerous) domains, and I’m hosting the wiki at wiki.sodramatic.net. Registration is required to edit anything (I did this to discourage casual vandalism), but it’s free and a formality. Once you’re registered, you can edit almost everything, and I encourage you to do so. I put up some skeleton entries for testing, but I’d like to see most of that information replaced with better information. Also, does anyone know anything about how to skin a wiki? I looked into it a bit, but it seems extremely complicated to me.
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Nevada Democratic Voter Registrations Trashed
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 10:27 a.m.
I missed this story yesterday; my mother told me about this in the car this morning and I looked it up when I got to work. Here's a link to the story by KLAS (channel 8) Eyewitness News: Voter Registrations Possibly Trashed.
Basically, the story goes like this: A private voter registration company called Voters Outreach of America has been collecting hundreds of voter registrations outside of shopping malls and grocery stores in Las Vegas. Then, some supervisors allegedly went through the registration forms and destroyed the ones filled out by Democrats. This means that many democrats who think they are registered will be unable to vote on election day. Now Voters Outreach of America has moved on, possibly to Oregon.
Las Vegas residents, please take a minute to check your voter registration status at the Clark County Election Department.
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Exodus!
Monday, October 11, 2004 - 11:53 p.m.
I'm trying to get the hang of this whole podcasting thing, which led me to open iTunes, so I decided to browse the music store and discovered: Exodus is out! For those who don't know what I'm talking about, this is the new english-language album being released by Hikaru Utada (or just Utada, as she's being branded over here... though I find that I continue to think of her as Hikki). Anyway, I'm happy and downloading and thought I'd share the news.
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My mom cracks me up....
Monday, October 11, 2004 - 02:56 p.m.
So my mom and I were discussing the upcoming election the other night, and I said something about wishing I liked Kerry more - I mean, I'm going to vote for him, but not because I particularly like him. I'm just very strongly against the current administration, and my conscience forces me to vote against them. I just wish felt as strongly about the man I'm voting for as the one I'm voting against. Anyway, that's not the point of the story. My mother replied, "Have you ever heard the saying 'Better the devil you know than the one you don't'?" There was a pause as we both considered that, and she added, "Well. Except in this case."
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