WorldWideWaterCooler

Look up. Waaaaaaaaaay up. At the ABOUT button. I’ve updated it.

Just in case you cared.

I took it, you should too!

Phew. Blog Fixed. And it took me all of three seconds. Too bad I was at work all day, and didn’t have any of my ftp login information with me to fix it before now.

Seems what happened was when my host upgraded their php and mySQL whatchamacallit, my under construction page (handily called index.html) ended up in the public folder instead of hiding away where it belongs.

Don’t ask me how that happened (I try to avoid going in there as much as possible, for fear of totally borking things), but it did. And I fixed it all by my own self! Someone should send me a cookie or something.

There have been a few things rattling around in my brain the past little while. I have no idea where to start, so I figure I’d ask the readership what they’d like to see next.

Take a moment to choose what you’d like to see on the poll, and expect an entry in a couple days.

It’s come to my attention that I have about eleventy-trillion emails sitting in my inbox. I’m sorry. I’ve been all preoccupied with this being on death’s door crap.

If I’m supposed to be getting back to you, I will, I promise. Just give me a few more days (oh lord please don’t let me feel like this any longer than a few more days….)

My feed isn’t showing as updated in Bloglines. Whyfor? Is anyone else noticing that the last available post from me on there is from March 7th? (That’s like asking you to raise your hand if you’re absent - I know.)

Most importantly - how do I fix it?

Welcome everyone, to the WorldWideWaterCooler. I saw this phrase somewhere before (and if I could remember, I’d credit the source), and it seemed to really fit my style of blogging. I tend to post stuff that I’d talk to colleagues about around the water cooler if I actually liked anyone I work with (kidding colleagues! no doocing please!)

So take a look around, tell me what you like and what you don’t. I have someone working on design and we’re hoping to have it finished by the end of the month. In the meantime, enjoy the Kubrick.

It’s time, again, to revamp the blog. I’ve never had my “very own” website before (I feel like I’m moving out on my own all over again). Can you help me out with any of these things:

UPDATE: Friday Feb. 25th, 8:48am

1. URL: I know I can get a .ca domain for $10 from about a billion people. However I think a .com would suit the URL I want a bit better. Anyone have any idea how much those are and where to get it? purchased this morning through dotster.com.

2. Hosting: Where, Who, How Much? going to go with Site5

3. Software: Should I stick with MT? Or move to Expression Engine or WordPress or something else entirely? Recommendations? I’m a big fan of the open source movement, so I’m going to go with WordPress. It’s time to try something different anyway

4. Design: I have a definite concept in mind, and just need someone to put it all together for me. I don’t have $149 USD to fork out to the Moxie Girls (or anyone else for that matter), but I’m willing to negotiate and bargain for cash & barter services if you, or anyone you know, is looking for experience and/or a little cash on the side. Negotiating with a couple people to get it all up and running.

Thanks! And thanks again everyone for all your helpful input!

I’ve decided to suck it up and add categories to the blog. The only reason they hadn’t been here earlier is sheer laziness, so I’ll try them for a while and see how it goes.

It was brought up in conversation the other day that there’s a preconceived notion among some male-folk I know that I have Ridiculously High Standards when it comes to dating and mating. Personally, I happen to think that the ability to hold down a job, and a distinct lack of backne (among other things) are totally legitimate requirements.

The problem comes in when some idiot that I’ve dated does something stupid to annoy me and/or turn me off of them entirely. After that, everything is free game. I will nitpick that person, and every tiny thing they have ever done in my presence, to death. Then I go blabbing my fool mouth about the nitpicking, and someone will inevitably say “holy cow are you ever high maintenance.”

So, anything in the Ridiculously High Standards category will be a list of things that I wouldn’t normally think about, or would completely overlook for that special someone. They’re really not that big a deal. But if I dislike someone, that tiny thing will just be further fuel for the fire when it comes to me tossing them out of my life quicker than that slimy lettuce in the fridge I forgot about last week.

The first Ridiculously High Standard: If I happen to be wearing my glasses (I wear contacts most of the time), and my date and I begin smooching, I think it’s absolutely adorable if he stops to gently remove my glasses to avoid smushing them into my face. Conversely I hate it if said date pauses the kissing to remove his glasses (whether I’m wearing mine or not). He invariably ends up looking all squinty, and half the time the act of removing the spectacles comes off looking like a geek is trying to perform some suave move like a “hot for teacher” porn.

I told you they were ridiculous.

Best discovery of 2005 - Flickr.

I don’t know why I didn’t clue into it before, but it’s pretty damn snazzy. And easy.

Enjoy the snapshots (as bad as they usually are). Perhaps I’ll drag my camera out and about a little more often now…

Yah, so I got sick of that other design. I wanted something simpler that focused more on the words and less on a lot of graphics.

But I broke the comments. For some reason, the rest of the “Post a Comment” section has disappeared. All I did was copy the default templates back in from the MT page, so if anyone can see what’s missing or where I may have gone wrong, please email me! Thanks!

UPDATE: I’ve figured out what I did wrong (thanks to Richard to pointing it out). I used the MT 3.1 templates when I’m running MT 2.6. Oops. I’ll fix that later today.

UPDATE (the second): And fixed.

Happy Thanksgiving shout outs to all my brothers and sisters south of the 49th.

Special thanks for y’all not going too crazy at the airports last night, so my dad could get home from LA with a minimum of incident.

It’s a ridiculously beautiful autumn day here - I wonder if I claimed to be American for a day, I could take the day off, go home and frolic?

Oh, and something I’ve noticed about blogs - they all seem to have an “about” page. All except me that is. Do y’all want one? That’s especially for the lurkers out there - it’s not like anyone who knows me would find out anything new.

I am going to die broke, with a fabulous library.

Inspired by this article (courtesy of one Mr. Barefoot) I purchased both Rebel Sell, and Rabbit, Run.

This is in addition to yesterday’s purchase of Shopaholic and Sister - though I purchased that as an ebook (much less expensive than the hardcover that’s available right now).

Also, wanted to include a brief note on blogging: I am tired.

My creative juices feel all dried up right now, and pumping mumbo jumbo into MT is just not my idea of fun these days. I’ve taken all the pictures, I might post them some day - but with that many, it’s tedious work. I also haven’t thought of a fun way to relay last night’s date - which I may or may not do eventually as I see fit.

This is not a hiatus, just a warning that the content will probably dribble off a wee bit over the next week or weeks. I’ll be back soon enough, witty as ever (which isn’t all that witty, but it seems at least some people like it) before you even have a chance to miss me.

I just realized that I had no content for October 2nd. It’s now 9:15pm on October 23rd, and I’m totally manipulating the date on this post so I have content for that one day of the month I missed.

First person to notice this and comment on it, gets a free drink from me.

Good Luck!

(though I suppose if you’re reading this - it means CONGRATULATIONS!)

Hi.

Comments are broken.

Will inform when fixed.

That is all.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled lives.

Update: 8:05pm - and they are fixed. The Donnanator strikes again and saves the blogosphere!