August 31, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
10:06 PM (Pacific)
Not much time to write. Spent the better part of the day cleaning house...I didn't "detail" it, just sweeping, vacuuming, mopping, dusting, and doing the bathroom.
No, I didn't get stoked. :) I should though. Really, I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to help me. It's not the actual work that bothers me, or even the dirt. It's the boredom, the loneliness.
Yes...I think it is possible to have a self-cleaning house. Some have tried it already. It's cheaper to hire someone to clean the house; that's not the point. The point is, okay, we don't ask people to use manual typewriters anymore, do we? There's a lack of efficiency here. A romanticizing of inefficiency.
In any case I've given up on the Wet Jet. A major disappointment. The Swiffer cloths are great though; highly recommended.
August 30, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
11:40 AM (Pacific)
A small trip down memory lane...it's past 11:00 am here, I'm still working my way through my coffee (it's cold now, the beverage of choice for computer professionals *g*). Hope the fog burns off. Want to go swimming.
I remember when...
There were no microwaves.
= Heat everything--milk, coffee, etc.--on the stove. Scrub all that burned milk off the bottom of the pan. Boil water in a teakettle--run when you hear the whistle.
There were no telephone answering machines.
= If you're out, you're out. You don't want to talk to someone; don't pick up the phone.
There was no cable tv.
= You never, ever heard bad language on tv. I freaked when I first saw it in print. No sex on tv...no one ever had sex! How did they manage to have kids?
And...radio and concerts were very, very big.
There were no PC's.
= Ugh. Hated it, hated it, hated it. You'd read about computers but you could never touch one.
There was no Internet.
= Hummm...I think the Net has brought our society closer. I can feel it. Much less isolation.
It's more than that also. It's empowering to geeks. Geeks finally got the respect they actually deserve.
No central air conditioning.
= Window unit. Close the windows and doors and everyone hangs out in that one room, terrified to leave.
Did I really write about bikini waxing in the diet blog? Sheesh. It just annoys me, that's all. It probably shouldn't. I just noticed...recently, probably a few years ago...that people generally, men and women, accept that women should suffer in order to be deemed beautiful. i.e. it's not the beauty itself that is beautiful, it's the suffering. There's something slightly insane about that.
I mean I wear makeup. I love makeup. It's just cool, like having a Barbie. I like Barbie. What can I say? Every woman has an inner Barbie. (That's not original; I got it from Allure.)
Barbie, imo, can be a unifying factor, rather than a divisive one. I strongly disagree that there's anything unliberated about wanting to look one's best. It's the pain factor I object to. I don't go there.
Hummm... Humidity. (Yes, I am avidly following Dain's blog. Why? A vicarious thrill? Probably.) The South is tremendously humid. There's just nothing you can do about it. You get used to it though. Basically--lighter makeup, stuff that stays put. Lighter-weight clothing. If it gets super hot and humid, take a shower twice a day. Southerners are nuts about bath powder...I suppose they make it with cornstarch now, not talc...but that's why. It's just too darn sticky.
There's also a market for light colognes. And iced tea.
Weather here: cold, foggy. A typical Northern California, Bay Area morning. No asphalting. It's a small town, that's why I'm so hung up on the asphalting.
Well, Yale sounds big. It's the same concept as a big city. People don't show what they feel. They can't. There are just too many people around. Ummm...I'm thinking of an example. In San Francisco, you have beggers. You do. You don't want to be the one tapped at the bus stop for money. So you tend not to show much emotion. :)
And...I went to Golden Gate. Yes! Golden Gate! I loved Golden Gate. The perfect blend of business and corruption, and the best programming instructors.
You'll get close to the people who are studying what you're studying. The rest of 'em...? ? I think the subject eclipses everything else. That's what distinguishes college from "lower education." In anything less specialized, it's the socializing and teamwork that takes precedence.
In fact...further...that is what distinguishes people...okay, most people...who went to college. They become capable of placing intellectual activity above socializing. I said most.
And that's what makes the difference between the First and Third Worlds. The First World has a middle class. A layer of people who have enough money to go to college, but not so much money that they don't need to work.
The Third World doesn't. Hence all the education, in Third World countries, is trapped within the hands of people who don't need to work. It's useless. And the people at the bottom are not educated at all. They work themselves to death and spend their leisure time gossiping and sniping about other people.
Okee...going to finish the electronics page today. Maybe some other stuff. Oh BTW...11055.
August 29, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
11:09 PM (Pacific)
Heh heh...I would die without Internet access. When that asphalt truck hit the house and the power went out, I was going coconuts. I wanted to work on the site.
And, in my case, that is doubly sad, because I remember life before the Internet very, very well. What did people do before they had Internet? Well...I for one, was incredibly bored. I was bored. On the other hand, that is also when I read. I'm next to illiterate now. And I was a better writer in those days. Much, much better.
I suppose the solution is to do e-books. :)
I am sooooooooo fantastically jealous. I can't even imagine going to Yale. Okay once I knew a guy who went to Harvard. *g*
Hummm...my son has changed. This ends his first week of "real" school. i.e. he's getting better.
The thing is this. He's actually a very smart kid. He just acts like a dodo. That I don't get. It's not quite as infuriating as a dodo acting like a smart kid, but to me it makes no sense.
It is true. Boys learn differently from girls. Up front, they're slower. They don't write as well, they don't read as well.
Say, it's another s***ty day in Paradise...typical California weather. Perfectly clear, sunny, mild...I am not driving a desk today! Plan on going out with the kids.
About the asphalt truck...apparently the truck lost its brakes near the top of the hill. Jeezum H. It is a very, very steep hill. The old man says that trucks like that are supposed to have manual gears though, meaning the driver could have downshifted to slow the truck. Anyhow, the asphalting is still on hold.
Wow...that's tough. Actually it is difficult to manage money. It is not simple. It is very easy to go under. I'm glad y'all made it through.
And, no, declaring bankruptcy is not the same as getting out of your debts. That much I know. You still have to pay. Probably the guy those guys were talking about, was a crook of some sort, so he knew how to play the system. But most people aren't and don't.
Yup...I'm for having your own house. I lived in apartments for most of my life. Very, very difficult. Everything in our system is geared toward homeowners. At the very least :) you'll get a decent tax deduction.
Wooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! Now I'm excited too!!!!!!!!!!!
I miss Greenwald. Why do I miss Greenwald? Even I don't know. Greenwald taught us Java...I had him in 1998.
Okay, his class was a riot. It started out absolutely full. In the end, there were five students left. Not the same five you would have thought, at the beginning. There was a guy from Hong Kong, two American guys, Kay...now I forget exactly where she was from, somewhere in Central or South America? I suck...and me.
Hum. Those were the days.
I was just thinking...I remember this wall. I don't remember where exactly it was, I think it was the side of someone's house. All the kids used to jump off the wall. This was when I was in grade school, the beginning of grade school.
Anyhow I was chicken to jump off the wall. I just never did. Finally one day I thought, what am I afraid of? So I jumped off the wall. It was a pretty high wall...lol...I hit the bottom, got up...it was fine. I thought, what was the big deal, what was I ever even afraid of.
(It's been on my mind for a while, just felt like writing it out.)
10654. bwahahahahahahahahaha! It's great being a webmaster.
Ugh, back to work.
August 28, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
4:08 PM (Pacific)
Okee dokee...I called Cafepress. They were very nice. Since the women's tank had come out reversed--front design on back and vice versa--they were going to replace it free. The camisole...they're letting me exchange for the spaghetti tank. I returned both today. Looking forward to the replacements.
I got another women's tank...with our new design...and the aforementioned spaghetti tank. Really curious to see if using higher resolution produces a better design.
Okee dokee, the children's page is up. I think I can do at most one or two pages per day. It's really rather dull.
Does it bother you when the gap between someone's "public" persona and their real self is enormous? Or are most people actually that way? I wouldn't know. I haven't known that many people that well.
It's just...what I have to gauge people with, is more my experiences growing up and going to elementary school. I know that sounds lame. It was like living inside a bubble. i.e. I was very, very lucky to go to that school at that time. I think if I didn't, I'd have no faith in humanity at all, based on some things I've seen.
Well, I am a little excited. We've just surpassed 10,000 unique visits per month. 10,238 as of yesterday, to be exact. Pretty darn good for a site run by a little group of broads, for less than a year. I'm very proud of everyone's work and faith in the site. Well I knew it had the potential to be a great site, a useful site, a unique site, even.
August 27, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
6:06 PM (Pacific)
Okay...here are some pics of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. I'm still uploading the stuff (dial-up, folks) so if you click on it now, you probably won't see anything.
I got a closer look at that building...the one the asphalt truck hit. My God. It's completely totalled. There's nothing to save; the whole house has to come down. What isn't bent in, is burned out. It was a small house as I recall, one story. Poor people, whoever lived there.
It was very dramatic as it happened although I had no idea what was happening until much later. I saw the smoke from the fire. It was an enormous smudge of smoke in the sky. I guessed properly that it was from the bottom of the hill.
Then the power went out...it didn't appear immediately obvious that the two were related. They've been asphalting the streets so we thought they might have knocked something out.
Then...when I heard it was a truck, I had the bad feeling it was one of the asphalt trucks. Sheesh! I'll watch more on the news tonight I suppose. There are tv news station vans camped out down there still.
College the pinnacle of your life? ROTFLMAO...literally. College is the pinnacle of your life only if you do absolutely nothing after you graduate. And that's not the point of going to college. It's a means to an end, not the end itself.
I just got my son into first grade. Hopefully. It's amazing...I'm still jumping through hoops. The system is bad. It's ironic...because the people inside the system, are good. Maybe there's too much of a gap between management and labor.
Hummm...not much else going on here. Besides the asphalt truck losing its brakes on the hill. They've quit doing the asphalting entirely. Last thing I heard, two people were still in serious condition. I hope they're okay.
August 26, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
9:44 PM (Pacific)
Carol, that is stupendous news...it'll be fantastic. :)
August 25, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
10:50 AM (Pacific)
Hummm...no, the Linkshare links are not necessarily the same. I'll guess now that the Reporting.net ones aren't either. Not that you wouldn't be credited with the sales, but the merchants are likely trying to track which sales came from which type of links. So I'll do the right thing and get all fresh links.
Did I say I was cleaning the house yesterday? :) We went to the beach instead. A wise choice. There's nothing like taking your kids to the beach. The parents have as much fun as the kids. It's a riot too, seeing all these etiolated engineers, programmers and other geeks and professionals, making fools of themselves to entertain their kids.
The more I think about it, the more that Babylon duo sounds right. It is different; I own no orange eyeshadow whatsoever. And it seems wearable. If I got a different duo, then I would be falling back into the same shadow colors I always get and already have and could probably find cheaper.
August 23, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
9:59 PM (Pacific)
Yup, they are identical. At least the Reporting.net ones are. The Linkshare ones probably are too. It's logical; I just didn't think of it before.
Where is that dang Donald Rumsfeld quote? I can't find it. I want it on the site. "He changes his mind as often as he changes his bunker." He said that, I know he said that. There are several sites that consist of Donald Rumsfeld quotes (including the BBC one) and still I can't find it.
Okey doke...I fixed the time setting. It's individual; you can change it for any blog. I'm just really sloppy about stuff like that.
Hummm...cops are not my thing. Engineers are my thing. sigh That is the field I really wanted to go into. It was just unheard of, back then and there.
Of course I like programmers best. Most of the time anyway. It's the good ones I like. The so-so ones...? Nah. It's the code, man. *g*
It's truly the end of summer now. We went to the park today...there's an enormous park in Berkeley, Tilden Park. It has everything--miniature steam trains, a carousel, pony rides, nature hikes, yadda yadda... It was a golden day, literally and figuratively. Nice and hot (I love hot weather!). And the kids were good, even my son. That's saying a lot.
I'm planning on cleaning the house tomorrow. The best way is to get kinda stoked first. I don't mean hard liquor, I mean something like beer. Music is good. I had this Mariah Carey tape that was excellent. I love Mariah Carey. One of the best singers, ever.
I feel really guilty now that I haven't done the Mall, especially the Fashion pages. I'm going to see if the banner link code is identical to the text link code...it might be (except for the image tags of course). That'll make things much faster. If not I still should do it.
Looking forward to exchanging the Cafepress stuff. They were having their company picnic last Friday so I couldn't call them (not sure how to exchange stuff exactly). Now I'm really tempted to get the "new" hat. The one I have, the yellow logo one, got me lots of second looks today. Odd eh? Is it because the tech industry bottomed out? Or just the design. It is different. Even the new one isn't quite corporate.
There's a company called Giga that has the best design. I'm so jealous, I wish I could think of it. It's just the 4 letters in separate colored boxes. We can't do that though, I can't see rolling out the entire site name in colored boxes.
Ooooooooooooh! That's exciting. And that's great, that you got a better realtor. I'm sure you'll find the right house soon.
Heh heh...it's not the Internet that changed my life as much as the PC. Before everyone and his dog owned one, the only computers you could touch were office computers. And then it was only for office business. The PC brought technology into the home. The Net, as far as I'm concerned, was cake. :)
Hummm...I like some cop shows. I liked "Homicide" when it was on (I've seen every episode and the final one where everyone came back). I watch "Law and Order" now and again. "CSI," it started out strong but it's too slick now imo. I like "The New Detectives," that is very interesting.
Well I wish all the best to your realtor. That's pretty tough...I do agree, the moms should get medals too.
August 22, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
12:04 PM (Pacific)
Heh heh...in Maoist China, they made you write your thoughts every day.
I finally finished Tech. That was one big ugly section. I couldn't do the Cafepress page though. That's going to need its own ads and I won't put them up until we open the shop.
So--the Cafepress page, Fashion and the Mall. And whatever random ads that aren't in the script.
August 21, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
5:36 PM (Pacific)
Carol!!!!!!!!!! You have got to change realtors!!!!!!!!!! It all depends on the realtor. Some of them are, well, kinda lazy. Mine has been great though (we've postponed getting the property but we're still in the market).
By great I mean great. She puts up with my kids (okay that's already a big plus), and, she's done lots of extra stuff I know other realtors don't do. She'll go drive out and check out properties beforehand. If it's noisy (many of the properties in the "Lamorinda" area are, they're built right next to the freeway), too small, too crappy, etc., then she'll tell me and I won't have to waste time going out to see it. She's always looking for stuff and she keeps track of what's going on with existing stuff. She's brought snacks for my kids and water for me :). It's not as if we're looking for million-dollar houses either (in which case I think the red carpet tends to come out from other people), it's just that she's good.
And, you can find stuff yourself on the Net. Realtor.com is pretty good. There are other sites...realtors have sites...you can search the "MLS" (multiple listing service?) listings off of those sites.
August 20, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
6:20 PM (Pacific)
I'm getting sleepy now. I don't sleep anymore. Well I do, but not sleep-sleep. I lie down and get up again.
I don't think that people need as much sleep as what they say. I mean I can see the point...you need a certain minimal amount of sleep or else you get sloppy. i.e. I'm the first person to pull over if I feel at all sleepy when I'm driving, I don't mess around. I go get coffee. But sleep, as a romantic notion, no, I don't need it.
Here I was congratulating myself--only the Mall, Fashion and Tech to do. No! No! No! What about the random ads? The code is up but the links themselves have to be copied and pasted in. You'll note on some of the sections you keep getting the same ads. Well that's why.
And there are sundry other things to do...next will be to exchange the Cafepress stuff. I put up a new hat. I dunno. Black on black is good. The one I have, the patch has a black background and it came out well.
I'll need to exchange the ladies' tank for a ladies' tank and the camisole for the spaghetti tank. That ought to do it; one's red and one's blue. One has the URL on the back; I want to see how that looks.
Did you know you can sell books on Cafepress? It's new. You upload your book (in PDF format, there's a free program that converts it for you) and the base price is $4. Not bad. I still prefer paper books to electronic. Not sure if you can illustrate them, but I don't see why not. Isn't that the point of using PDF?
Well, about dictatorships. Programmers can understand politics...actually anyone in a technical field can. That's why so many of them tried to start their own companies. i.e. to avoid office politics. Running a business, now that's an entirely different skill set. Some have it, some obviously didn't.
In programming you use pure logic. It has to be pure, otherwise the computer won't understand it. So...? Can you not use logic to understand politics?
It's always the same. The dictator-to-be...oh let's call him Stalin...starts out being nice to everyone. Nice, and not appearing to be overly bright. This gains everyone's trust and disarms them at the same time.
But Stalin isn't stallin'...he's busy sizing everyone up and gathering information to use later on.
The next thing Stalin does, is create a common enemy. Usually the first one is a legitimate one, someone the people already hate or distrust. Stalin unites the people against this common enemy and showily gets rid of the enemy. Okay, usually the first enemy is also not particularly strong so it's relatively easy to give him the boot.
Stalin lets it be known that he himself got rid of the enemy. He is the people's hero and friend. This elevates him in status and at the same time increases people's trust, affection even.
Right after that, Stalin replaces the first enemy with the second. Now this enemy is not entirely legitimate. It's someone the people don't already hate, but is weak enough and obscure enough that Stalin can create hatred for this person.
This is important. This is where the heart of the dictatorship is actually made. Here is where Stalin gets people to harm someone who hasn't really done anything wrong.
Why is this important? Because this is where Stalin finds out who can be corrupted. Who can be turned against someone that they know is at least half-way innocent. Stalin knows that the shared guilt will bind these people to him for the rest of their lives.
Once that enemy is disposed of, that's when things happen very quickly. That's when Stalin, surrounded and protected by his corruptible friends, takes over.
It's Psychology 101. The friends are now bound to Stalin and have to serve him. How can they admit they just knifed someone who might not have quite deserved it?
What's more, Stalin has now created fear. The people have seen two enemies, one legitimate, one not really, disappear. Who's next?
The third enemy is entirely innocent. By now, no one wants to be that third enemy. They feel Stalin is all-powerful and can disappear anyone he wants to.
The third enemy--the first in line after the two enemies--is comprised of the intellectuals and the press.
The intellectuals--well that's obvious. They're educated; they ask questions that Stalin can't or doesn't want to answer.
The press--again obvious. They print what's going on. They must be stopped.
Once Stalin has destroyed the intellectuals and the press--then...that's when you have the regime. One person controlling many.
The only way to maintain control is to control people's thoughts. Hence, a rampant paranoia as to what people are saying, writing, or even thinking.
Towards the end, if no one caps Stalin beforehand, Stalin becomes increasingly paranoid. Everyone is the enemy. And then...right at the end...he becomes religious. He's terrified now that God is going to remember all that earlier stuff.
Okee...that's done. I'm up to the Tech section. This part is incredibly boring. :) I have to go page by page and put in the code for the ad and the footer. At least Interactive, Beauty and Arts & Leisure are done. Health is done, since I finished the blogs on it.
Home Management itself is done. The Children's section, I'm not sure about the final design. We won't have ads on it, only links to the Mall. Children are overly exposed to advertising as it is; it's incredible. Well, when I was a kid, there was no Cartoon Network. We had to wait until Saturday morning to watch cartoons. I remember getting up at 6 in the morning. Now the stuff is on 24 hours a day.
Okay, that's done...I think the current Children's design is okay. My daughter just approved it.
Food & Travel is now done. (I know I'm talking to myself? It's a tad dull.)
Personal is done. (You'll note I skipped Tech and Fashion; lots of pages, I have to be in the mood.) Site Tools is done.
/*****/ Then there is the Mall. So Tech, Fashion and Mall...do later. :)
Link Exchange...now there is an odd page. That actually belongs inside Arts & Leisure, not Site Tools. Let's change that. The logic is that, you're looking for something to read, so you go to Arts & Leisure.
Ah, that puts the site design to the test. How easy is it to make such a change? Is it better to use Javascript? I hope not. I don't want the entire page to depend on Javascript for navigation.
It means changing 6 pages in the A & L section--the index page and 5 subsection pages. I'm not changing the Site Map, since it shows the physical location of the page, which I'm not going to change. Of course, the Link Exchange page itself. So 6 pages.
I don't have to change any blogs. :) Because all the blogs have been archived. It's confusing to have links to all the other stuff in the section on top of the archive links. I tried it; it looks crappy.
The first 5 pages were easy. Yay! Good site design.
The Link Exchange page is doing something weird. Okay, that's done.
Now to send everything up. That part is always breathtakingly fast, relative to the amount of time you spend working on the pages themselves.
Done!
August 19, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
11:03 PM (Pacific)
You may be wondering where all this talk about dictatorship is coming from. I don't study politics; it's interesting, no doubt (if only because it forces one to deal with reality for a change), but to me personally it's all the same thing. The biggest bastard wins. Until a bigger bastard comes along. And so on.
Sometimes it does strike my fancy though. It's fascinating, how one person can control so many people. Every time it happens, people shake their heads in wonderment. How could those people be so stupid, to let one person dictate what they do, how they think, how they relate to other people. And yet--then it happens again.
I'm inclined to see it as a weakness in human character. It's easier not to take responsibility...to leave the responsibility to the big bastard. Isn't it? How do you think they take over?
Okee! All the blogs are finished. They're all archived, they all have their Javascript freakin' footers in place, the ones that are going to have ads, have the Javascript freakin' random ad code in place.
And, I've fixed up the Forums so that they work inside the frameset. Hopefully I've done all the links to them, aside from the link on daijo's House of Beauty Reviews, to open inside the frame.
The next step is to fix up all the last odd pages that don't have J-script footers and random ads. I'm going to do the Mall last.
Okay, testing... I put a new feature on the blogs, it'll spit out a list of links to all the blogs on the site. Instead of having to go back and forth to the Weblogs Index.
It's all the same Javascript code. I'll be screwed if they ever deprecate the writeln() method. :)
I've come to understand one thing. I don't believe in dictatorship.
There is always a distinct point at which the system goes rotten, or doesn't. The point at which the most ruthless, manipulative, conniving, amoral person either takes over, or doesn't.
And that's the thing. Some people like being told what to think, what to say, what to write, how to be. The majority don't. I'm for the majority.
Hummm...what else. I shouldn't have canned our Avon Blog. We keep getting 404 error messages on that dang thing. I published it what, once? twice maybe? No one bought anything. Oh well. I'll put up a redirect page for it or something.
August 18, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
6:15 PM (Pacific)
Okee, I've opened up the Beauty Blog. It's less formal than the former Beauty Advice Blog. i.e. you can put rambles, copies of rambles, stuff like that, in there.
*whew* It's the Mall that's killing me. A few of the merchants, their links don't work. Anyhow at least I finished the beauty page. I'm doing the Entertainment one now.
One thing you find out...is that people don't change. When you're young you think they do. You're convinced that what you see, has some significance, but it doesn't.
I was just thinking of two people that I know. They're both screw-ups, and there were two particular points when I was sure there was such a thing as turning over a new leaf. To cut to the chase, there isn't.
Is it worse if the person pretends to be normal? Or isn't it? I can't decide. It's the same thing. No it isn't. It is not. Having the screw-up in your face, odious as it is, is better than having to see that fake normal vaudeville act. It's nauseating.
Okee...more site work. The advertising is the hardest to do. I can handle anything technical. There's always a way...programming is just the same thing over and over again. Even Javascript. I shouldn't diss Javascript. Our "random ad" script is beautiful code. It's two functions. Depending on the section, the code fills up an array object...it's not an array, it's an array object. *smirk* With whatever ads we want on that section. The function returns an ad from a random index of the array object. The second function, just calls the first function and returns the ad.
Yes, it could have been done in a single function but why?
Now the placement of the ad is temporary. We might be getting some Google ads and I'll have to redesign the pages anyway so we're not drowning in freakin' Google ads.
That's the key. There's a fine balance between content and advertising. Most sites lean toward the advertising. I don't blame them--it's hard to make money off a website--but you have to ask yourself this. Is this a site I'd want to visit?
Sheesh. My son is so cute. That's what saves him. :)
I am aware of how precious these moments are. I don't talk about it, in some ways I don't want to think about it. There was this little flash where I saw my daughter. She was playing on a jungle gym. I look up and caught her eye for a split second...she was on her way to the slide. Beautiful is not the word. Beautiful is overused and commercialized, it's become something you can buy. But you can't buy this.
Heh heh...can I even remember my life before I had them?
Ugh. "Nip/Tuck." It's good and bad all at the same time. I watched it once...twice maybe. The truth is, the guy's wife is an annoying character. It's as if a man wrote that character, that dialogue. You can't be that age, with a child, and have so little of a life.
I miss "The Shield."
Now I have to redesign our Cafepress hat. I like the one we have on there, but it doesn't match our new corporate, dot-com logo thing.
I will exchange the stuff soon. I'm looking forward to opening the shop.
August 14, 2003
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
2:32 PM (Pacific)
Oh yeah. This blog alone, will retain its original design.
I've yet to redo Wit and Wisdom. Some of the posts in it are "stuck" together because I added in new categories. But I will fix that one up too and make it easier to throw stuff in there.
Okee! I finished archiving a few of the blogs. It's not rocket science, but it does involve detail.
I promise I will archive all of the site blogs. Each blog will retain 7 days' worth of posts and will be archived monthly.
Ummm...what else. I'm also converting over the footer to Javascript as I go along. I'm doing that section by section; it's the only way to keep track of what's been done and what hasn't. I can't believe I didn't do this up front. What was I thinking? Sure, it doesn't work in truly ancient browsers but as long as you're using 4.x or higher it should work.
Haw haw...my kids won't let me use the phone. They could care less about the PC. In fact they've been really gracious about my webmastering. Or I should say, I've been really insistent about it. I firmly believe that there is no such thing as this saintly mother figure. It's not real. All mothers need to have intellectual interests. Cleaning up poo-poo, does not exactly fall under "intellectual interests" even though it needs to be done. :)
Well I'm almost out of the poo-poo phase anyway! Yay! Of course the kids have already trained, but my daughter is still too young to use the bidet by herself. We do have a bidet. It's great! How anyone can live without one...?
The phone. As soon as I pick up the phone, no matter where in the house the kids are, they run right up to me and have a fight. It's really something when you've been waiting on one of those automated answering systems for 20 minutes. You finally get a human being to talk to and then you have to explain where all the screaming is coming from.
lol! Dain, when you have your kids, nothing will be as you think it will be now. Everyone makes plans of some sort...as soon as the kids are born, everything goes right out the window. Anyhow you'll be a great mom. Some of the strengths of being a mother are, that you stick with things instead of quitting. That you work hard and as hard as, or harder than, anyone else. That you have a sense of humor no matter what. That you learn and can teach. You have all that.
The camisole is really small. I can fit in it now, after I went on my new diet...and I'm going to replace it with the spaghetti tank (same size range but hopefully less flimsy!). The ladies' tank is okay. The sizes run big but it's not so bad.
The black baseball cap is terrific.
I redid the 3 designs...the hat, ladies' tank and spaghetti tank, at the highest resolution. Ack! It's better to use a slightly smaller design at the highest resolution if need be. Plus I made them all solid colors and stronger colors.
Will have to exchange the two pieces as mentioned. I'll see how that flies.
*whew* Well most of the site has been redesigned. There are a few pages left in the Tech section that I need to tackle, but everything else has been done.
I am really, really pleased with how thebroadroom is coming out. It's exactly what I had envisioned. Frankly...I'm not sure why there aren't more sites like this. I suppose it's because the Net is still, ah, male-dominated.
To be fair, it is very difficult to make money doing this kind of site. I knew that...well...we don't do a lot of stuff that other sites do. We present the information, and if we have an affiliate link to whoever's selling the stuff, we'll put that there. But so what? We are not constantly touting the virtues of buying x, y and z. If you want to buy it, then by all means buy it. And if it doesn't cost you anything to buy it through our link, then buy it through our link.
Why is that? Because every time you visit the site, you're looking at someone else's labor.
*pffffft* Or whatever. Some people want everything on the Net to become a paid service. Then it'll become the television of the 21st century. A hundred billion channels and nothing on.
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