Currently waiting for the IPB software to finish doing it's thing and reflecting on how little I've picked up with regards to coding and programming over the years. I knew some stuff, back in the days of Angelfire and Geocities, when XHTML was still the big new thing. But I let things slide, and since I'd moved onto mailing lists and livejournal by the time CSS appeared, I never really bothered learning more.
I'm suffering for it now, trying to develop SO into something at least semi-professional looking. It's been getting better, gradually, over the year, and it's reached the point where I at least have a vague idea of what I'm looking at when presented with a stylesheet, but still. I'm not very good. And I don't like not being very good at things.
(On a related, I found out today that Yahoo! are closing down all the Geocities free sites at the end of this year. With angelfire and crosswinds gone already, it seems like a small death of my internet childhood.)
I'm suffering for it now, trying to develop SO into something at least semi-professional looking. It's been getting better, gradually, over the year, and it's reached the point where I at least have a vague idea of what I'm looking at when presented with a stylesheet, but still. I'm not very good. And I don't like not being very good at things.
(On a related, I found out today that Yahoo! are closing down all the Geocities free sites at the end of this year. With angelfire and crosswinds gone already, it seems like a small death of my internet childhood.)
.013 - throw in some nudity and i'm sold
Jul. 30th, 2009 04:01 pmI have decided that my ideal Supernatural S5 would be if Lucifer decided that now he was free, all he really wanted was some fresh air and some room to stretch his legs. That the angels 'Purge of Humanity' bollocks could go fuck itself - he was gonna go grab some ice cream instead.
So I've been quiet the past month or so. Big surprise. At the moment the whole continued job searching/rejection cycle is just starting to wear me down, and even stressing about money and the immense lack thereof isn't as bad as the simple fact that I just can't seem to get a job.
BUT.
I'm aware that feeling sorry for myself is only going to make things worse, so I'm determined to try harder to post and do nice things and be ~pro-active~.
I'm not entirely sure where the Dean/Castiel porn comes into this, but it seems to be working. Huzzah!
BUT.
I'm aware that feeling sorry for myself is only going to make things worse, so I'm determined to try harder to post and do nice things and be ~pro-active~.
I'm not entirely sure where the Dean/Castiel porn comes into this, but it seems to be working. Huzzah!
.011 - ho yay!
Jul. 1st, 2009 07:13 pmI have a great deal to write about, including my body's continued hissyfits since I returned from the Caribbean and the return of our cyber-stalker. But first, from the radio times website regarding tonight's episode of The Bill:
Tonight's case is the first of a six-parter, one of those runs where the Sun Hill gang pick up a trail, follow it in and out of related cases, and end up nowhere near where they started. It pulls together alpha-male sergeants Dale "Smithy" Smith and Callum Stone, which is a worry given how easily they strike macho sparks off each other. They're thrown into one another's lap (metaphorically) when a burglary that looks staged and a fight outside a trendy bar turn out to be connected in ways that take most of this first episode to figure out.
If the people who write the TV guides can see it, it ain't just subtext anymore.
Tonight's case is the first of a six-parter, one of those runs where the Sun Hill gang pick up a trail, follow it in and out of related cases, and end up nowhere near where they started. It pulls together alpha-male sergeants Dale "Smithy" Smith and Callum Stone, which is a worry given how easily they strike macho sparks off each other. They're thrown into one another's lap (metaphorically) when a burglary that looks staged and a fight outside a trendy bar turn out to be connected in ways that take most of this first episode to figure out.
If the people who write the TV guides can see it, it ain't just subtext anymore.
I have yet to pick up my cross-stitch or watch any Criminal Minds today, and so I'm automatically less procrastinate-y than I was over the weekend. Go me!
I also got the first of the two assignments I've been waiting on back this morning. Not happy with the mark, but I'll save dissecting that for a uni-centric post after I get the second paper returned.
I have gotten some stuff done today though - laundry, tidying up in the kitchen, ringing a few people in regards to jobs, processing screencaps ready for a gallery update, etc. I did some trimming on LJ as well - communities and people who post regularly on here, mostly.
I really need to continue working on the site update so I can get something vaguely substantial up before I'm out of commission during Mum's wedding and the following sojourn to the Dominican. Much rather watch some S1 Supernatural eps though. (Yes, I'm late to the party. I tried to fight The Ackles, I lost...)
I also got the first of the two assignments I've been waiting on back this morning. Not happy with the mark, but I'll save dissecting that for a uni-centric post after I get the second paper returned.
I have gotten some stuff done today though - laundry, tidying up in the kitchen, ringing a few people in regards to jobs, processing screencaps ready for a gallery update, etc. I did some trimming on LJ as well - communities and people who post regularly on here, mostly.
I really need to continue working on the site update so I can get something vaguely substantial up before I'm out of commission during Mum's wedding and the following sojourn to the Dominican. Much rather watch some S1 Supernatural eps though. (Yes, I'm late to the party. I tried to fight The Ackles, I lost...)
.006 - Fic Challenge Table - ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
sacred25
May. 7th, 2009 01:33 pmIt's been a while since a prompt table has really inspired me, and I've been wanting to get back into fic writing for a long time. Doing the prompts for TB felt like too much of a challenge, general NCIS too easy, so i went with being a bit more specific. Aaaaah, Tony <3
( NCIS :: Tony DiNozzo )
( NCIS :: Tony DiNozzo )
.005 - A210 Book List
May. 5th, 2009 03:41 pmI've lost most of the day to being sat in the kitchen waiting for the delivery of Stace's new phone. I will inevitably have to lose a considerable chunk of tomorrow morning, at least, doing the same, though hopefully by tomorrow the current brain fuzz will have worn off and I can crack on with some essay writing instead of browsing old fandom_wank posts.
Speaking of, the registration confirmation for my October module arrived today, so woo! And since these are Important Documents, they need to be filed away safely. Which means that after today they'll never see the light of day again.
So I'm putting up the list of set books I need to get, for my own reference. Mostly because I need it somewhere I will actually remember to look at it, and partly because I have a horrible habit of going on book buying sprees and completely forgetting what I've bought, and thus buying the same book again later. I ended up with three copies of the same Sean Bean biography because of this. It's also why I knew I had two Charles Dickens books, but had to go downstairs to check that they weren't Great Expectations.
( Approaching Literature: Set Text list )
Speaking of, the registration confirmation for my October module arrived today, so woo! And since these are Important Documents, they need to be filed away safely. Which means that after today they'll never see the light of day again.
So I'm putting up the list of set books I need to get, for my own reference. Mostly because I need it somewhere I will actually remember to look at it, and partly because I have a horrible habit of going on book buying sprees and completely forgetting what I've bought, and thus buying the same book again later. I ended up with three copies of the same Sean Bean biography because of this. It's also why I knew I had two Charles Dickens books, but had to go downstairs to check that they weren't Great Expectations.
( Approaching Literature: Set Text list )
.003 - An explanation of sorts
May. 3rd, 2009 06:40 pmI've been quiet on LJ for a long time now; still reading, but not posting. Over the past few years I've drifted out of fandom, for a number of reasons, while at the same time going through some incredibly stressful phases that I didn't care to write about in length or detail and as a result have been floating around in a motivation-less state of semi-depression, so I wasn't posting about much of anything else either.
Added to the fact that I was bored with LJ - I hated the adverts that kept cropping up, I didn't like only having three icons and not being able to post polls, but after the recent kerfluffles I really didn't want to give them any money either.
But there's lots I want to post about. I've found some new shows that I love and rediscovered some old ones. I've got my Open University course and the highs and lows that that entails, I've got the new 'spiritual path' I'm meandering down, and I've got the fact that, despite a few hitches, I really do rather love being in Yorkshire.
So here's to a new beginning. And icons. Pretty icons! :D
Added to the fact that I was bored with LJ - I hated the adverts that kept cropping up, I didn't like only having three icons and not being able to post polls, but after the recent kerfluffles I really didn't want to give them any money either.
But there's lots I want to post about. I've found some new shows that I love and rediscovered some old ones. I've got my Open University course and the highs and lows that that entails, I've got the new 'spiritual path' I'm meandering down, and I've got the fact that, despite a few hitches, I really do rather love being in Yorkshire.
So here's to a new beginning. And icons. Pretty icons! :D
.002 - Icon/Bases
May. 3rd, 2009 06:03 pm- The Bill; 16 icons; Nate Roberts, Leon Taylor, Nate/Leon
- Coronation Street; 5 icons; Charlie Stubbs, Charlie/Tracey
- Holby City; 5 icons; Dan Clifford, Jac Naylor
- Scrubs; Elliot Reed, The Janitor, Perry Cox, Jordan Cox, JD, Dan Dorian, Cox/Jordan, Cox/JD
( here be icons )
- Coronation Street; 5 icons; Charlie Stubbs, Charlie/Tracey
- Holby City; 5 icons; Dan Clifford, Jac Naylor
- Scrubs; Elliot Reed, The Janitor, Perry Cox, Jordan Cox, JD, Dan Dorian, Cox/Jordan, Cox/JD
( here be icons )
This is the first post, mostly for layout testing. There will no be further serious posts tonight, because we've run out of milk, so I've had to have coffee instead of tea.
The problem with this is I prefer the taste of my coffee strong but I don't drink coffee often, because my body hates it, so when I do drink it, it actually makes me feel like I'm a little bit drunk. I don't even get the fun hyper caffeine rush, I just get sluggish and twitchy. It sucks. How people live on this stuff I have no idea.
Having 75 icon spaces does not suck though. Also, bunnies! \o/
The problem with this is I prefer the taste of my coffee strong but I don't drink coffee often, because my body hates it, so when I do drink it, it actually makes me feel like I'm a little bit drunk. I don't even get the fun hyper caffeine rush, I just get sluggish and twitchy. It sucks. How people live on this stuff I have no idea.
Having 75 icon spaces does not suck though. Also, bunnies! \o/
