ashke.nu

Does anyone know why the theme changes back to the default one when you refresh the index page? Even though I’m viewing another theme, when I click the index link it goes back to the chemical brothers theme, my default theme. Why? Shouldn’t the cookies remember the theme that I’ve chosen? I even upgraded the theme-switcher plugin, but I noticed this problem only after I upgraded Wordpress 1.5 to 1.5.1.

If anyone knows, please tell me!

[ EDIT ] : Well, I fixed it. Thanks to Geamy, again. Geamy, you really seem to find solutions for most of my website related problems. Well, most of them are Wordpress related, but still. I feel like a complete monkey not being able to figure the problems out myself.

Warning for random randomness presented in a very random way:

I have terrible luck with spammers. No matter what precautions I take, they find me and torture me. I want to punch something in!

Am home now, anyway. No school till January 10th, yay! I’m finally getting my computer connected to the internet tomorrow. No more webmail for half a month!

Mum wanted to buy some children’s movie on VHS. Me and pal said, ‘No, no more evil VHS, get DVD!’ Mum says, ‘Have no DVD player’, we say ‘You have no VHS player either.’ ‘I’ll take yours, since you only use it like all the time,’ she says. ‘Hah,’ I say, and pay for the DVDs while Pal takes mum to look at “very cheap DVD-players, max 50€”, or so Pal tells mum. I get there, they’re paying for 150€ DVD-VHS combo. Pal couldn’t find a DVD-player cheaper than 99€, ‘Horribly expensive’, mum says. Somehow she thinks getting DVD and VHS in one for 150€ is a bargain. Well, it is, but still 50€ more than getting only the DVD player. So now mum has got a fancier DVD player than I do, blasphemy I say, as it’s me and Pal rigging it up and using it for her anyway. I can’t complain much, since I have three DVD-players, including my DVD-rom and PS2.

I hate Christmas, you spend a lot of money and then feel guilty about it until next Christmas. And about 200€ on food, which I certainly don’t need. I have plenty of energy stored around my hips, could live on it for a year I presume, since fitting into new trousers is a menace. I hate shopping!

Watched Van Helsing with Pal. What a farse! We couldn’t stop laughing with Pal at the terrible dialogue. It wouldn’t have been half as terrible if they’d rewritten the script. Excellent comedy, though. Best one I’ve seen in a while.

What else…Oh yeah, I’ve maybe been offered a job. Will keep fingers crossed. Can’t believe my teacher asked me if I wanted to do websites for his artist-friends, since I’m a terrible fuck up at showing up on time at school. Ever.

Will update more before next semester, promise! I want new layout, as this…disgusting.

Life has been prosperous. Two weeks by, I’ve had the time to be sick, be late, be a failure, and have a migraine for two days straight. So far.

Other than my nice trip to hell last weekend (also known as feeverish delusions and a head that weighs a ton) I don’t have much to write about. Pal convinced me to take a few days off school to get better. I tell that to myself to minimize the guilt. However, all week, guess what we’ve been doing. Learning *drumroll* PHOTOSHOP! Yay! RUDIMENTARY PHOTOSHOP. (And this is the undo button, and this is I’m not sure what it is, but it looks nifty.) And the version we’re working on is 5.5. Exciting! I love my 7.0.

Besides, the pictures I had to work with were terrible, so it didn’t do much for egging on the ‘creative me’. I, once again, just rushed through the assignments and surfed the internet the rest of the time. On 28kbps speed! GAAAAAH! I’m so spoiled! I want to complain all the time and protest everything and not do anything. I’m pissy and furious and bored. And I feel guilty about it. This sucks a lot.

And I’m broke. Luckily, Pal’s had payday yesterday. We’ve got tickets for a hockey game tonight, which I’m not very excited about, but we’re not taking the car which means a lot of things. *winkwinknudgenudge*

Now I’m going to go nurse my terrible headache and my guilty conscience.

And thank you guys for thinking I DO have a life, though I have a hard time to believe you. Plugs, plugs, plugs: Kathryn, Geamy, Danny, and Marion who has a wonderful new layout.

I feel so weird. It’s my first week on vacation, and I’m already bored. It’s absolutely disgusting how little there is for me to do, that ISN’T chores (which disgusts me even further). Today I’m even home alone, so I can’t bug anyone just for the amusement. I can’t go anywhere…’cause there’s nowhere to go! The beach is restricted to sunbathing only because of flooding and wastewater getting into the sea. And what fun is it sunbathing with no one to accompany you?

The fridge’s empty, so I can’t EAT anything (thank the Gods), we only have water to drink (how disgusting) and there’s nothing on the TV! And I can’t be bothered to watch a movie. I’m so bored. And Pal even lent Pirates to one of her friends.

That leaves me with Playstation or GameCube, and the Harry Potter (PoA) game I’ve passed five times already, it’s starting to get really annoying really. And all the three other Potter-games are even more so. Zelda is so difficult I don’t think I can handle it at the moment. In Majora’s Mask you really have to do everything at precisely the right time, or it wont work! And I’m terrible at catching poes in Ocarina of Time, and I don’t want to proceed to ganondorf before I’ve done everything else.

What a drag. Did I mention I could read? Only that I got lost in Emma; I left it lying about for a few months, and now I can’t find the place where I left. I start reading, oh yeah, this seems unfamiliar, then I read something I know I’ve passed a long time ago! I should be around the time when Mr. Weston has his ball, but I can’t figure out if I’m there where Frank has already gotten back, or not! Frustrating. So it’s back to Potter then. I’m a lame excuse for a human being. There can’t possibly be a person more bored than I am. And of course Pal had to have me drive her (she hasn’t got her license yet) to her friend, thus I am already awake! I’m tired enough to be bored, but not tired enough to sleep. I even gave the last of my money to mum and Pal, so I can’t even go to the movie theater. Or anywhere else for that matter.

Deliver me from this madness.

Prisoner of Azkaban was a pleasant surprise! I’d thought it would be a bit different but the changes made were definitely not bad! For instance, the humour was much better in this one than in the previous ones, and more obvious even. A few things irked me to no end, but the rest of the movie made up for it. I’ll tell more later. I know that Johanna won’t see it until tonight, so if you, Johanna, by any chyance happen to read this before the movie, you won’t have read any spoilers.

So other than the movie theater being a teeny-fest, I had a great time. I went alone, because I realized too late that the tickets had already been for sale in mid-July! I was mighty pissed, and I could only squeeze in myself alone a good seat. So I reserved tickets for me and Pal for the Friday show instead. Though, I must say, I’m having a rather hard time trying to discuss it with her. heh But the long 6 month wait is over, and I’m not the least bit disappointed. It was different as I already said, but…it was GREAT! Hail to Val the Potter fan! Never would’ve thought when Pal got me the books five years ago, and I chucked them somewhere dusty out of hand, muttering to myself, ‘what’s this kiddy rubbish?’ And yet, again, I eat my words:

Proof: I bought the Order of the Phoenix paperback edition yesterday. Because my hardback edition (one of my few first editions, so I don’t care that there are about 3 million first editions of it) is kind of…”used”. It’s starting to fall apart, and I’ll take any precaution to avoid that.

So, were going shopping today with Pal and her friend to some outlet place a bit outside town. I got my paycheck yesterday, so I’m looking for ways to spend it!

Korn’s concert on Monday on Hartwall Arena was AWESOME! Somehow, I always find an excuse not to get online, though, so I haven’t had a chance to update earlier. Static-X was the warm-up act, and though I haven’t heard much of their music, I really enjoyed them as well. Pal told me that we HAVE to get their newest album. I told her better collect the Korn ones we still don’t have first.

I got my paycheck on Tuesday, unfortunately not earlier, so I only could bum 40 euros from mum, which I spent on a T-shirt and earplugs (figures we forgot something we realized finally at the stadium). We had excellent seats, right on the opposite side of the stage, so though a bit far away, we had a straight view of everything around us.

Alas, the concert had to end sometime, and we left in a kind of euphora. The hour and half they played was definitely enough, though, (eventhough I felt a kind of disappointment knowing it was the end,) ’cause I felt a headache coming on after all the headbanging. It was awfully hot inside the stadium as well, so when everyone left you could see the sweat dripping all over the place. Lovely.

Well, anyway, I’ve again realised that life’s meaningless again. Everything is pointless. Let me tell you when you know life is meaningless:

• you have no ambitions
• you don’t know what you want to do
• you don’t want to do anything
• you know there’s nothing that can make you feel otherwise

and regarding other people:

• when a friend tells you something it doesn’t interest you
• when a friend wants to discuss tabloids or rumours or something scandalous another friend did, you’re all “Who the hell cares?” (especially since it’s got absolutely nothing to do with you, it’s none of your business, and you knowing about it doesn’t change a thing)
• nothing anyone says moves you in one or another direction

Yeah, I’m kind of unhappy, again. My work makes me miserable, I have nothing to look forward to, my life’s basically done. And everything seems so shallow, and I get mad at myself for being happy when reading a book or playing on my playstation or something as meaningless. I wish I could just stop being a prick about things and move on, nothing to see here. But I tend to dwell on things. A lot.

Thanks to everyone who commented, and plugs to those who commented on my previous post: Johanna (I fixed the Todd Gaines fanlisting, and the funny thing is, I have absolutely no idea of how long it hasn’t been working! Nobody told me before you did!), and Alx, who made me remember it’s more important to be alive than have your car in a million pieces. Especially, since we have a NEW ONE! Thanks!

Oh yeah, Ashke.nu is ripe and old at the age of 3 years, which we celebrated (quietly) at the end of last month. We’ve come a long way, baby!

First, a super HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PAL! And no, you’re not old yet! The prime of life, man, the prime of life! Sorry I couldn’t make it funner for your celebration day, I’ll make it up some day! And remember our “pact”!

Well, life’s boring again. I just finished most of my finals-project, both the practical part and the essay part. Frankly, I’m glad my hands’re washed clean. Tomorrow it’s time to “sell” my project for my class, and then it’s all over.

My life’s over!

Night school’s done and over with as well, we had our last class tonight, and now I’ll just have to wait for May 28, graduation day. I can’t believe it’s all over. Tomorrow’s the final day of school, then’s Easter, and after easter I start working again. Wohoo! I’ll have time to take advantage of my gym card!

Now starts the time for studying for the university application tests. Yay!

I’m still stunned. I did a hell of a lot more better than I ever thought I would. That’s all I can say.

Plugs to Tinúviel and Anukk for commenting the new layout! Thanks, you guys rock!

My host reported that they’re doing a huge server change, so I’ll have to fix things, again. I don’t know when, yet, but I’ll have to fix the dns IP addresses for both ashke and precious-darkness. Bleh. It won’t be a huge change, but a change nontheless. I have made back-ups of my MySQL databases, just in case. So yeah, I got Les Innocents, and /fightclub back up, Les Innocents with all members intact, Fight Club not. The Fight Club fanlisting just had too many members for me to have time to add them all manually. I’ll be e-mailing previous members soon and let them know of the inconvenience, etc. But they’re all back now! Yay! What a relief. /lotr (the LOTR console game series fl) is open as well (Go Return of the King!).

I have a huge exam tomorrow. Swedish. I’m excited actually. Well…I dunno. Maybe. It has to be done, anyway. And I’ll have to get up really early. Blah. Then I have Math’s exam on Friday, then Swedish part 2 on next Monday, and Finnish on next Friday. And then I’m done! For good! Well, supposedly. I still have three courses left (Philosophy, Analytic Mathematics, and Swedish writing), but I’ll be done this spring! Yay!

But. There is always a but. I have a huge project I have to finish in four weeks, and I’ve been putting it off for two weeks. It’s a photography project, and I have yet to take the shots. I have planned to do the photographing on Tuesday and Wednesday. I simply forgot I’m getting my hair cut and done on Tuesday morning 10 AM. So, I’ll probably have to do some shooting on Thursday as well. Which leaves me well behind my schedule. Maybe I’ll post something for you to see when I’m more done, so to speak.

ANYwhoo…What else? The site needs a new look, again. I had some problems with the colors after my little virus/whatever thing. All my JPEG pictures seemed to take a weird crunchiness into them, like GIFs. As if there weren’t enough colors to display every detail. And the background wasn’t the same color, even if the background was specifically picked from the image. Whatever. The problem fixed itself when I upgraded my Office. The problem seemed to have come from there anyway!

Yeah. I don’t know what to say. I’m just babbling away. I’m trying to make up for lost time, if you didn’t notice. It’s not working, is it?

Well, CSI is on soon. I’m pissed that Alias went on a summer break. But Buffy season 7 started FINALLY!!!!!! Yes, I’m weird.

Phew. It took a while, unfortunately. It took a few bottles of alcohol, a few tears, a little sweat and blood, but it’s back. It’s back!!!

As you might’ve noticed, I struggled with my permissions on MT, so you weren’t able to see much but a lovely error page for a few days. I installed, re-installed, re-installed again, but nothing worked. Until I got around to check for similar problems at the support forum. And it took a lot! Searching for a needle in a haystack, anyone? I couldn’t get the normal php execution permission to work, or the one suggested by MT, so I had to find out what my server liked! Bleh. Never again.

Anyway, I still have the largest fanlisting databases to retrieve, the one for the Fight Club fl, and the on for Les Innocents. And I also got approved for the LOTR console games series (by EA) fl during my chaos, so I’m actually in a hurry to get it up and running. Bleh bleh bleh. And bleh again!

Work has gone off well, I’m glad they like me there, my final exams started with the listening comprehension part a little over a week back. I only have my university applications to fill in and send, school to finish, and I’m free! For the summer. Yay.

I got my driver’s license two weeks back, I only need to get the card thingy. And a car. It’s in the works. I might get one soon.

What else? I have no idea what all has happened during this chaotic time. I can’t remember. I only remember that everything had to come crashing down at the same time. My computer got a virus, I had to cry a few tears over that as well before it started working again. Bleh bleh bleh bleh. And a bleh. My Office still struggles, but I’ll think reinstalling will help a lot.

Anyway. Ask questions away. Did you miss me at all?

Some of you might’ve noticed, precious-darkness.org has disappeared. Endore.com went out of business, and my files and databases with them. I’m in the progress of transferring my domain elsewhere, but until then, my fanlistings on that domain are on hiatus.

OIHFASFJKASGJKAEKE KAEGKEASLGJAESKFJAWEKJlkhasldk vgkojQDYI!86p0!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mr. whatever who was in charge of endore.com, I really appreciate you not telling your customers that their files might leave, and never come back. I only had 1500 + members in my databases, and of course, it isn’t your fault I didn’t have any backups of them, but telling me to DO so, would’ve been appreciated.

Blah. I’m quite pissed, but life goes on. I finally got my excuse to get a reseller account.