Thanks to perigee I now have my very own wiki, so I can keep all my factual writing in one place. He set up a copy of MediaWiki on his site for me, and I have spent the entire day engrossed in it. The achievement I am most proud of is figuring out how to make template infoboxes, but I’ve been doing a bunch of other stuff too. I have put my Wikipedia contributions in - that was easy, of course, because it was going from MediaWiki to MediaWiki. I’m now working on my Everything2 writeups, though, and that is going to take a lot longer. I have several hundred articles there, and I put a few of them up with complete links (most of the hardlinks are getting sent to WikiPedia articles) and graphics and everything. I then figured out that doing that would make the port process very slow and so I’m now just grabbing each writeup and dumping it into my Wiki straight. I drop it in Notepad first, replace all the [ with [[ and the <em> with ” and so forth, and then I save it with a category of “Wikify.” It’s fun so far, believe it or not. By the way, I have turned off anonymous editing and new user signups for my wiki, because I’m the only one I want messing with it - at least for now.

I suspect the hardcore geeking I’ve been doing for the past month or so has been an attempt to escape some of the harder thoughts I’ve had floating around in my head. I’m looking forward to getting my new games soon, too.

It turns out there’s going to be a new movie about the 1996 disaster on Everest. They’re going to start shooting footage in March. I found out about this while working on the Yasuko Namba node I published today. I better get to work on the [May 10, 1996] node if I want to get it done before the movie comes out!

Hey! Everything2 is back at a weird URL. It’s about time! Now if only I can remember what node I was planning to write about. I really want to get back to noding - I miss the researching and writing.

Phew! Nearly a year after I told the Content Rescue Team that I wanted to take on the task of putting some worthwhile content up at Lesbian, I have finally posted the results. It took a lot more effort than I ever could have imagined, but the response so far seems to be positive.

Somehow donaldb and brigid23 have managed to get CSS stylings into their ODP profiles. My own first attempt failed miserably! (I am also playing with the latest version of TopStyle.) Regular editing has not been going well today either, the system is really slow and keeps timing out whenever I try to power-edit.

Today was not a great day; for some reason I felt really angry for a lot of the day. It was weird…there wasn’t anything to provoke me or cause me to be so upset, but I just felt full of rage. I’ve been having a lot of problems controlling my emotion recently, I’ve even had a few full-blown panic attacks…and I hadn’t had any in a really long time. I just feel angry and scared a lot. Yukka-pfeh.

I’m trying to work on that damn lesbian metanode, but it’s hard. I did get good news via the mailing list for DykeWriters; Tracy is implementing a set of daily topics and she thinks I’d do well with the “writings on sexuality” discussion.

It turns out my company’s year begins at Labor Day, rather than in October; this means I have the rest of August to use my vacation time rather than the next couple of months as I’d expected. I still want to make use of our Six Flags season pass, so I am looking into Montréal: I found a $164 (round-trip) fare through Orbitz.com and if I can find a good rate on a hotel maybe we’ll go the last week of this month, or something. (Montréal works for Six Flags because they bought La Ronde, plus I’d love to go there again: I haven’t been since I was 12.)

Gah. I’ve been sitting in front of the computer for two and a half hours and I haven’t gotten anything accomplished. I don’t even know what I’ve been doing all this time. I wrote up VCO and HCO nodes, but that’s all I’ve done. I know I have a million things to do, but I think I will just give up for tonight and turn the computer over to my girlfriend. Sigh.

I have no idea if this is any good, but here’s my application to live in nodetropolis.
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Morning squirrel count: 6

Okay, so…current projects. I guess this is mostly for my own purposes, but making it public helps me want to get it done so people can see what I’ve been working on. (Sort of like dieting, heh.)

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wertperch says re Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard: This is fascinating! *This* is what E2 is all about…

Whee! It’s good to hear comments like that. Yay.



In other news, none of my computers meet Radio’s system requirements, so that method is right out. Eclipse suggested using Movable Type, but I don’t think that does what I’m trying to create. I finally decided I must be going about this the wrong way, and posted in the ODP forum asking if anybody might be able to help me. They’re the ones who know best what I’m trying to achieve, I think.

As planned, I spent most of tonight working on the icon index. Dinner was half an apple, sliced, with honey and five vegetarian chicken nuggets. We watched the new Buffy, and while I won’t spoil it for those of you who haven’t seen it yet - oh my fucking god. Not at all what I was expecting. Regarding the very end, I’m not surprised he had one and I’m not surprised he was willing to use it, but those results were a shock - as was the preview for next week.



I did see the albino squirrel again on the way home, I am definitely bringing the camera to work tomorrow. I’ll buy some nuts or something to attract the critters of the park, and hopefully it’ll turn up.



I’ve been doing a lot of LJ and ODP work lately; I want to get back to E2 stuff. I don’t plan on doing the current quest, but I do want to finish my history of Dupont Circle, and I really need to work on that lesbian metanode I promised I’d produce.