3rd August, 2008 (10:14 pm)
The Day With the Brevity (7)
ARRGH. Updating this place has replaced my Japanese homework as my must-put-off-for-as-long-as-possible thing. Sorry. My bad.
In the interest of brevity (it’s late, I’ve got work tomorrow, I had a late one last night, a long day looming and have shitloads to do) here’s a bullet list to assure you that I’m neither dead nor, um, dying.
- France: REMIND ME TO UPDATE PROPERLY ABOUT THIS. We went to France for three days to visit one of my BFFs. It was all kinds of good, so much so that we’ve all been in something of a post-visit blues since returning Thursday. Sob.
- San Francisco: I know, I know - I haven’t updated you properly and now, you’ll have to wait until I come back to get the details. But the crux is, I’ve been invited by EA games on an all expenses visit to their HQ in San Francisco and give their latest survival horror title, Dead Space, a try. That’s right - ALL EXPENSES PAID.
Like I said, I’ll fill you in properly on the hows and whys and wheres when I get back Thursday, but I’m excited and scared and worried (could be elaborate grooming process and I’m going to end up in some sick bloke’s steak pie by the end of Tuesday) but . . . it’s just too good an opportunity, isn’t it? How can I not go? So yes, I’m a little concerned that I won’t be a good enough gamer (read: SHIT) and I’m pretty sure I’m the only contributor with tits.
If it makes you feel better, I’m only going for one night. Yes - I’m travelling zillions of miles to play a video game and stay ONE NIGHT. It’s stupid, but I’m having to come back a day early in order to ensure I’m here for little S’s birthday. (am bad mother for going?!). On the plus side, I don’t think I’m there long enough to even drum up jetlag. Heh.
- 5th Birthday: S turns five on Thursday - can you believe it? Today was his birthday party. (mental note: also write this up, V, before you forget). It all went to plan - yay - and it meant that my very best (non-French) friend had to cart herself, her man and her kiddies - including her newborn daughter - up to stay with us. I spent most of the weekend smelling baby E’s head (there’s something about the smell of a newborn scalp that makes my uterus simultaneously sigh and contract) and making plans to kidnap her. My plans were thwarted when I was asked to be her godmother. As no-one has ever deigned to entrust me with their offspring before (I have no nieces and my one nephew - M’s sister’s son - has yet to be Christened, although I quite frankly I don’t think I’m going to make the cut anyway) I promptly burst into tears and then had to abandon my plans to steal her. Bugger.
- Work: Got payrise. Have scandalous salary now. Tis awesome. Ironically still think am very poor though (we were broke so badly for so long) and agonise over everything I buy. Bought myself a Time Capsule today, but only after long argument with myself as I had also recently upgraded my XBox 360 and and Rockband etc, and so was being frivolous. M pointed out that the latter was a gift funded 90% by birthday donations and that I was being an arse. I agreed and hit ‘order’. Now feel sick with guilt.
- M’s work: M been promoted! He’s switching to shifts, which is hard, but am so, so proud of him - this is only the second job he’s ever gone for in ten years, and he was so anxious about it all. Will also update properly next weekend.
- Online Stuff: I’m lagging on blogs, LJ and forums of late. Eep. Sorry if I seem absent and I haven’t commented. Normal service will resume when I’m back on Thursday. I’m on leave for a fortnight then, so will probably veg around the house for two days and then pronounce that I’m bored. At that point you’ll probably be sick of my 27 updates a day. Apologies in advance.
- Misc.: There’s more. I’m certain of it. Only now it’s even later than when I started and I have to go to bed before I crash on my Mighty Mouse, so I probably need to leave it there. Can’t be bothered to proofread, either . . . hmm, that can’t be good - but I’m sure you kind souls will point out my numerous errors. In the meantime . . . how are you? Good? What have you been up to? Tell me all.
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4th June, 2008 (9:13 pm)
The Bit With the Plea (1)
Anyone looking for some freelance web design work . . . ?
I’m looking for a freelance designer at Geek Goddess. I need someone committed, creative and with fantabulous HTMLy prowess - that means a flair for design and sensible, semantic code. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are also highly desirable.
It’s seasonal (i.e. as and when the work’s available) and you won’t become a millionaire (I really don’t charge enough, methinks) but it is a paid job and it’s fun, interesting and all good for the ole portfolio.
If that hasn’t put you off entirely, drop me a line at vikki [at] geek-goddess.net with your design CV and several examples of your work and we’ll go from there!
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5th May, 2008 (12:29 pm)
The Bit About the Broken Feed (17)
I think that my RSS feed is broken.
I didn’t do it. Honest.
I’d fix it but . . . wtf? I don’t even know how it’s broken. Can anyone smarter than I am (i.e. everyone) help me figure this out? It seems to have stalled sometime between 24th April and 27th April - which I think is post my 2.5 update, but potentially pre-2.5.1.
Also realised today that, despite fixing it twice, my library’s gone tits up, too.
I need a drink. 1.30pm isn’t too early, right?
Edit: Okay, so TC has helped me grapple with this, and we’ve made some tentative changes that I hope have fixed the issue.
If people continue to have a problems then please get in touch. However . . . well, if you’re one of people having problems then you won’t be able to see this post, will you?
Edit #2: Teesee and I think we’ve fixed the issue and have now redirected the old broken feed to the spangly new one. I’d appreciate it if readers using RSS could let me know if they’re still having problems.
Teesee: I love you and want your babies.
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19th April, 2008 (1:42 pm)
The Day With 2.5 (17)
I’ve been upgrading my plentiful WordPress blogs in fits and starts over recent weeks (I use WordPress for a lot of my projects) :p and today I reached the final batch - which included FA.com.
I put it off not because I’m one of those annoying people who never upgrades (FA.com is almost always running on the latest version even when my other sites are not - I love my angel too much to neglect her) but I was waiting for many of my plugins to release 2.5 compatible versions before I jumped onto the 2.5 wagon. I didn’t anticipate problems because, like I said, I’m always up to date, and I’ve had precisely zero problems everywhere else but - as is always the way - FA is the only one of twelve installations I have that’s fucked up. Joyo.
Aw, I’m being unfair. It hasn’t fucked up completely - you’re reading this, right? Presumably you can comment (someone check?!) but there are a few little problems with my plugins, the main one being the issue I have with my reading library which, at the time of writing, is just not displaying. It was one of the plugins that I hacked to death and modified within an inch of its life, and I didn’t upgrade for ages because I didn’t want to have to re-model it all over again. :p Now I’m forced into doing so, so bear with me whilst I sort it out and it goes through some tidying up. ETA: It’s working now - yay! Also think my LJ-Crossposter is okay too . . . maybe?!
Other than that, after a cursory look round it looks as though everything’s rocking and rolling. Have a poke around - go on, when was the last time you checked out my content anyway? Reacquaint yourself! - and let me know if anything’s looking a little wonky. Meanwhile, I’m going back to bed with hot lemon, cough sweets and feel sorry for myself some more - I have a chest infection. Poor me. :(
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10th April, 2008 (6:59 pm)
The Bit About CodeGrrl (5)
CodeGrrl users: Looks as though the domain has expired. Sash was going to transfer it over to me but didn’t get around to it, but I’m hoping to get it renewed ASAP.
It’s timely as I only realised it was down when I went to the forum to leave a notice saying that I was going AWOL for a few days whilst I sorted some stuff out at home. Sod’s law.
Sorry - am working on it!
Edit 12/04/08: It’s still not displaying for me. I know that it’s up now because I checked at work, but I still get a page not found from home. I’ve flushed my cache but it’s still not working. Weird.
Anyway; sorry if you’re waiting for account activation and/or a reply from me. You may still have a little wait.
Edit 14/04/08: Working now. FFS. :P
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