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Notable changes done so far:

• _word_ and *word* mark-up as been removed; instead, BBCode support has been installed.
• A printer-friendly version of posts are now available (Your browser should automatically use that stylesheet when you print or use the print preview.).
• Gravatar seems to be temporarily fubar. At least, mine is.
• Show/Hide sidebar items (And there's only one sidebar now)
• Polls, Recent Comments, Events (Still to fill), Links Of Interest (Still to change)
• Different look and layout

Known issues:

• Collapsing the Projects sidebar causes it to vanish entirely.

So the ailment that affected my computer didn't last long. I'm still not entirely certain what caused it, but it seems that temporarily turning on the driver verifier did the trick - possibly because it slowed down the computer to a horrible crawl while it was on. Thankfully, things seem to be back to normal now. Thanks again to Flames Delvar for the suggestion of going to The Elder Geek's website.

Yesterday, I got bored and decided to play around with my sound editor. I popped in a song, cut it off at about 30 seconds (approximately right before the singing starts ;P), then started experimenting with it. I ended up cutting it down to 17 seconds, but it loops cleanly. The odd loop was then popped into a Flash file, to see what others had to say about it.

I've been a little too addicted to UT 2004 lately. It wouldn't be so bad if I could find more people I knew who want to play it, but just about every time I ask someone to play, they're busy, not in the mood, or otherwise won't play. Ah well.

I've been reading more Piers Anthony books lately. I thought I'd mentioned it, but apparently my last post was at the beginning of this month... guess I kept wanting to say something and never did. I finally borrowed the last book of the Adept series - Yes, it made it out - and read it. Pretty good, but at the end of the story, I could tell why it wouldn't be continued. He really screwed with that planet... I decided I wanted to read more of his books, though, especially since I had finished The Dastard, so I borrowed Currant Events, and Virtual Mode. One is of the Xanth series, and the other, the Mode series, which is supposed to be similar to the Adept series. I'll see how it is, soon.

I've been furiously trying to work on the shoutbox lately. I say furiously, because I can't concentrate on it. I was told I should probably have other projects to work on, but I'm not sure. I don't work much on this one as it is. I tried, instead, to work on the (X)HTML part of it, but that didn't help much; I found out that the Dojo Toolkit causes loading lag (Though I seemed to experience the most of it) no matter which way you use it; thus, I'm going to wait for it to mature before trying to use it... So much for fancy effects. At the same time, I still need to design the administration section anyway. I can't decide if I want to use cookies (*sigh*) or some form of dialog-based authentication (e.g. WWW-Authenticate or one of it's better "ancestors"). Meh... maybe I should roll it up into a beta version as soon as I can, and that way I'll get feedback. Or something.

I just used "lately" three times in a row on the opening sentences. My vocabulary is obviously not up to snuff.

Serendipity 0.9 was finally released. Naturally, I'm going to upgrade this blog to it, but I'm also going to try making a multi-blog host with it - should be an interesting experience. No ETAs on that, though. Also, I may swap phpBB for punBB, especially if it makes integration easier. I still want to integrate the users and groups of phpBB/punBB, gallery, and S9Y. Nobody seems to have done this, so far...
Oh. And I still need to redo the S9Y template so that it's XHTML valid (Assuming 0.9 doesn't fix that.).

I have no cash... I need job, me bum.

But first, today.
Woke up and decided to go do some things on my computer upstairs, but heard my mother was listening to (or perhaps actually watching) TV at a loud volume; Thus, I decided to stay downstairs for a while, and did some homework. Server had frozen again, so I just shut it off for some quiet while I worked.
I don't know how long it was unavailable... I'm starting to not care about some of it, really. I keep thinking it's something necessary and, well, worth the time... ...but something's been nagging at me: This is just the way I want it to be, not the way it is. No-one really depends on any "services" I offer, no-one really cares about what I have to say, and no-one visits the forums I have, nor are interested in me hosting their forums, albums, etc.. Maybe I should just shut it off and give it a rest.
After working on my assignment and getting the server back up, I went upstairs to check my e-mails, etc., and essentially pass time and work on other things. It's amazing how much of a lowlife I am.
Later on, I helped my mother with her yardwork, carrying bags of rocks and some stepping stones from her car to the backyard. I sawed off a small tree (by her request) that I had abused (partially intentionally, partially not) while trimming the hedges (Which is near impossible with all the crap she insists on placing along the side of the garden rather than in the center!).
Afterwards, we went to the chinese dining lounge nearby (Lai Lai's - And yes, I can never remember how to spell that work - Szcheutian...? No, that's not it at all.), and ate some chicken balls, rice, beef, and other things there. It was all very good. The fortune in the fortune cookie, however, really got my attention:
"You see beauty in ordinary things. Do not lose this ability."
I do not know how true this is. There is a certain amount of truth in it, but it's not something I do often. At least, not anymore - as a kid, I used to pick up all sorts of things and look at them, sometimes wanting to bring them home even though they had no use whatsoever. Almost like picking up a dime or such, but without even monetary value.

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