ashke.nu

Looking at my archives, I see that I’ve been writing something every month from June 2003 (and that’s as far as my archives go, I know I wrote before that, that was just the switch to movable type). Up until last January.

I feel completely out of date with everything, I’ve completley left most of my websites to their own fate, whilst doing what instead I don’t know. I find that all scripts I used to use are out of date and have “major security risks”, and I find it a dread to check my e-mail, just knowing the amount of spam and randomness I have to sort through.

The internet is not a fun place anymore.

I have to remember to update my fanlistings, and this time I actually let it slip a bit too long, as I didn’t update since August until today.

But I forget.

It’s so easy to forget chores, isn’t it? I find myself reading more things, than doing my own things. Participating in message boards is much cooler and entertaining than it was a couple of years ago, and I’ve found other things to occupy my mind with.

Sort of. I mean I’m still constantly bored out of my mind, and this has made my unbelievably lethargic regarding everything. I can’t be bothered to go to redundant tutorials one day a week - only lesson we have in a week regarding practical studies. And I find myself getting more and more alienated from the film making, and more invited towards the visual theory - which I btw chose a unit unrelated to my own course.

Passion and ambition is just not in me anymore. To be frank - I just can’t be arsed.

And that’s what happened with my websites. Now I’m simply revamping the whole site, because I found another purpose for it, and thought I might as well go through everything I’ve got on here, delete it, and revamp anything usable. And update the fanlistings which I so dearly hang onto.

I need to get more in touch with things, I’m getting embarrassingly bad at everything, just because I haven’t been practising. At the same time I find myself going to much simpler approaches to webdesign, rather than trying to impress with my fantabulous skills, which we all know I possess…

So what am I actually doing at the moment [in general]? Not a thing. Trying not to die out of boredom, and trying not to get too obsessed about losing the last of the “puppy fat” I’ve been trying to lose the last 6 years, which is pretty much what my life consist of (tracking what I eat and reading nutritional values on product labels). So maybe writing over-long posts like this will bring some life back into me. Or just cure the boredom for at least 10 minutes. Let’s hope so anyway.

I haven’t really known what to write here about, as I have quite gotten the best of my livejournal. Though I promised to only rant there about stupid stuff, I have come to realize there isn’t much more than the stupid stuff to write about.

Other than moving to England on September 21st, nothing important is going on. I am planning on revamping kalenedral.net, add a lot of stuff I haven’t updated yet, and make the updating over there more simple by writing some sort of script for it. I’m already brainstorming on things to include in the script, but it will probably be a while before I start even coding the thing. Once I start coding, it will be at least a month or two before I finish it, considering my studies, and my knowledge of PHP. But at least I have a project to look forward to.

What to do with ashke.nu, as I do have my livejournal as my blog, nowadays. I’m going to keep it my personal site, but what to do with the blog? I don’t want to throw it away, if I ever were to need it, and I do have more than one year worth of ramblings which I am not very much inclined to trash, even with the content considered. I haven’t decided yet, but I am thinking on it. I have a few ideas, but I don’t want to destroy the ideas by abusing them with my blabbering about them. So until I have some sort of conviction what to do, I’ll keep my mouth shut about it.

So yeah, regarding frequent updates, you can check out my livejournal at veele.livejournal.com, and friend me if you’ve got your own LJ.

I’ll keep this blog posted on my decisions regarding my domains etc. so be on the look out for that.

Until later - cheers!

I made a new theme called Garlic is Good. Very original, considering the images I’ve used for the layout. But mostly, it’s all mine, I didn’t exactly just customize a theme already made by someone, but I did check some codes and stuff to get mine to work.

Today was actually going to be a busy day, but then Pal got a stomach flu, so we couldn’t do anything of those things we’d planned. These things of course related to the World Skills 2005 Helsinki, accreditation, guiding etc. Well, we’ll do it tomorrow.

Oh, I also got a call yesterday telling me I’ve got the job I applied for. OMG YAY! So, on Thursday is a preparatory class, and then I start working officially in June. I’m going to be very busy this summer.

What else? Oh yeah, I finally got the Chemical Brothers new album on, er, Saturday, I think, and may I just say that it’s oh so great. So adding onto the celebratory post, I opened The Galvanize fanlisting and adopted The Third Age fanlisting. That’s it for now.

I’m going to Russia on Saturday. Well, actually, the cruise ship leaves Saturday, and we’ll be in St. Petersburg on Sunday. Me and mum, that is. Mum got a pretty good offer at work, so we decided to go! I’m so excited. I mean, I haven’t been anywhere, since…last year. Well, I know, that’s really not much, but seeing all my friends going here and there I’ve built up an incredibly strong travel-fever, really. I need to go!

Today I’m supposed to start editing the video material I shot last week. I have a total of 16 MiniDV tapes, varying between 30 and 80 minutes. Let’s put it this way, I shot three days, each day 2 hours. Two of those days I shot with three cameras, the last day I only shot with two cameras (one tape each). So, Tuesday I got 8 tapes, Wednesday 6 tapes (plus a bit on two of the tapes from Tuesday), and Thursday 2 tapes. I’ve gone through most of the material I have, NOT in real time, dude, that’s like fifty hours. But now, I managed somehow to brake the VCR. One of the tapes just got stuck inside and wouldn’t come out. The VCR just refused to do anything. So it’s getting repaired for I don’t know how long. Now I’m stuck with my teachers handheld MiniDV, which refuses to record anything onto the computer I’m editing the thing on. I don’t know, I don’t think it can handle the constant forward/backward searching that Adobe Premier likes to do when finding the right in and out point.

Yes, unfortunately I don’t have the pleasure of working with Avid. Adobe Premiere it is, and that’s what I’ll probably will have to live with forever. We were pretty lucky at our previous school to get to work with Avid. Lucky, INDEED! That’s the equipment professional editors use, even for film-editing. So, no, I can’t have that at the moment.

So let’s hope I get the original VCR back soon, because I only have 5 weeks left to edit the whole thing. The theater group who did it will want to see it, the director especially. And this is supposed to be my final project, the project that’ll show I’ve actually done something this year.

Anyway, Geamy, I changed the joined page to look a bit different, different colours and everything. I’m truly sorry that I didn’t realize before that it looked so similar to your’s! I feel really bad, and I hope you won’t hate me forever!

I’m pretty much mad. I can’t get my content to work the way I want. I want each of the blog-separate pages to have the same style and layout as my blog. You know, the way I’ve always had things. But with these themes, I can’t have both that, and functional comment/single entries pages. I can’t have any if-statements at all that are separate from the blog-statements. They simply mess everything up. So now, my info and etc page won’t work. Because I want them to look like this page does. And they don’t!!!

Everything would be alright, if the theme files that aren’t WordPress specific files (such as index.php and header.php) would recognize the WordPress specific functions. Like get_header() and get_footer(), and such. I can’t have any of those files included in my other theme-files. For example, I’ve put my val.php page in the theme files. Of course WordPress won’t recognize it. But I want it to act as if that page belongs there with the other theme files.

ARGH! Well, at least my joined page works. Why? Because I changed its layout to be different from everything else.

Other than that? Peachy keen! I have another fanlisting on upcoming. More info soon. *evil grin*

I got approved for the fanlisting for the new Kent album Du & Jag Döden. So, this weekend I finished it.

fan.ashke.nu/kent

Isn’t this great? Well, no one will probably join for a long time, since there’s only a very marginal fan base (since Kent does it all in Swedish. ahem.) and since it’s a fairly new album. Fairly. So Geamy, you should ask your mum to join!

This now means that I have a total of 10 fanlistings and over 3000 members (me included in all ten fanlistings, of course), a cumulative number of over 3 years. I have, of course, the Fight Club fanlisting and the All characters of the Vampire Chronicles fanlisting to thank for this amazing number, with 1200+ and 900+ members, respectively. But only the Todd Gaines and the Lord of the Rings game series fanlistings are really quiet with under 50 members each. Even Lord of the Flies is fast approaching 100 members, as well as Ludo Bagman.

Amazing, really.

Well, I did it. I transfered everything to Wordpress and got rid of Movabletype. Geamy, if I can’t now get rid of the comment spam and templates messing themselves up, I am rightfully entitled to switch over to LJ completely. Eh?

I installed WP, didn’t uninstall MT. WP worked. Mt worked (so and so). Next day, WP has stopped working, MT (for god’s sake!) has overriden WP with auto updates!!! Have now deleted blog from MT. Wordpress seems to be working again.

So this is my first offical entry with wordpress. Although I haven’t found all the finesses everyone else seems to have on their blogs. Took me a while to figure out where the syndication files were.

What I think will be easier is keeping the code tidier and W3 friendly.

But I have to disappoint those who registered with typekey. You know why, of course.

Anywhoo. I’ve finished my UCAS application, finally. As I am applying to a university in England, I had to go through the hell of filling in a three-page application form. Plus photo, plus interview, plus International Reply Cupon, plus this plus that. And I had my bank tell me they can’t make direct debits to a foreign account. :blank: WTF? What the hell is the bank for if they can’t do anything? Well, anything that a customer might ask for, and not even very outrageous. So, had to drive to Helsinki to have mum sign the credit card payment form. Great.

I have an intense craving to go on a vacation. I want sun, I want relaxation, I want vacation! Everyone else I know is travelling, to Spain, to France, to the Alps, even to Åre in Sweden to go skiing. I want to a spa! Anywhere! Take me there!

I have no idea where all the time went. Last two weeks went by with me doing absolutely nothing except play on my Gamecube (and this only because Pal insisted I keep the PS2 at home). This should tell you at which plane my life really is. Except of course last Wednesday, when a couple of friends and I went to the local club (pathetic little place, really). We got ourselves into a good enough state to survive the rest of the week. I bet the photography teacher was impressed enough about my lack of productiveness. I learned a lot, really, just…didin’t produce much. Two good photos, the two first I made, really.

And OMG!!!11! Pal got the first taste of the new Kent album, which I ordered from CDOn. It arrived yesterday, but guess who’s about 80km away from the precious thing? ME! And she went on and listened to it. My own fault, really, since I didn’t clearly state that she shouldn’t. I mean, I’m just being envious here of the preview she got before me. Well, it’s not too bad, since I’ll hear it tomorrow, but still I’m antsy. Which is no news because I’m always antsy. But that has nothing to do with being excited about something, which regarding Kent is the case.

To wrap up…er… I always seem to be able to mention a lot of things, but never make a clean wrap up of the things I’ve mentioned. So, yet again, a clumsy closure for this entry. I might check into making more updates on the layout while I figure out the rest of what Wordpress is capable of. Oh yeah, and I finally customized fan.ashke.nu.

I’m losing faith in Movable Type. I changed layouts, started fiddling with the comment page, now everything is FUBR. Halelujah.

[ E D I T : ] Fixed it. Should look ok now. [/ E D I T ]

So, first I’m fighting for W3C to accept my li’l page for what it is, but NOOOOOO, I have to make myself bald by all the pulling of hair before it manages to tell me what is wrong. But as it is, I did manage. In the end.

Thus, I may now declare that W3C does indeed not hate me anymore. Ashke.nu now validates XHTML 1.0. *does a little dance*

I still don’t really know what to do about the pages beside the weblog. Let’s NOT get into the weblog, I may just kill something before I get to a conclusion what to do about the publishing problems (she said after deleting 300 spam comments and making un-undoable changes to things that should not be touched). But, it’s a bit sad how empty everything is nowadays. My blog is even getting emptier. Out of frustration, mostly, as we are, infact, still talking about me being livid about blog things in general. Yeah, couldn’t be a moment without raving and rampaging about it.

Well, I have now been awake for far too long, and as I do have a life (or so I try to tell myself), and have a few errands I should take care of tomorrow, I really should get a bit of sleep. I just might have to postpone these errands, as my waking hours have again drawn themselves into being late and dark hours. I blame the influenza, which completely FU my daily routines. But alas, somehow I find myself back at square one.

Awake! Still! As in never went to sleep! Am going now, however stupid that may seem. Am exhausted. Just writing to asy that the Fight Club fanlisting has been revamped, totally! new layout, new additional buttons/codes, and a new script! I’m switching all my fanlistings and joined pages to Enthusiast, and will sometime soon maybe open my fanlistings collective. Which has just been lying around online, probably feeling very naked and not very much in love with Times New Roman…

Am yet again rambling, have joined about 50 fanlistings, trying to stay awake. But to no avail! Alas, I am only human, and my back is aching from all the sitting. Dog is even warming my bed, looks comfy…

Where’s my Pepsi Max? Don’t think caffeine will be enough, but thristy, and Pepsi Max is tasty. Yum.

Oh, yeah, new layout, do you like Phantom of the Opera? Saw it on Christmas Day, was awesome, want Gerry Butler for meself! He was truly extraordinary, very good singing voice, Val wasn’t tortured at all.

Maybe will watch Aladdin. Have got DVD. Oh shut up already.

New layout, as you can tell. I made it to fit the style of Kalenedral.net. I dunno why, I like consistency, I guess.

I added a bunch of fanart and LJicons to kalenedral.net, all, but ten (10) icons, Harry Potter related (SURPRISE!!!!!!!!) And since I’m moving to the school campus tomorrow, and won’t update until the weekend, I thought a finally made that new layout I promised. So here you are, a bunch of updates. I even updated my FLs.

Oh yeah, I haven’t told you, have I? I’m going for a year to this open university type of thing (not really, but it’s hard to explain) to do art (!), since I was rubbish and didn’t read enough for the uni application tests. I guess that is fine, since my plans now are to pursue the art career I had in mind from the beginning anyway. No literacy for me, hooray! Er, yeah. I might get to go to Enland for a three (3) year BA program next year, if the school doesn’t think me as rubbish as I do. I love that word. I am RUBBISH! Well, they did accept me, either because I’m really smart (HA!) or because I’m not completely rubbish. Hard to tell.

Ahem. Yes. So I’m leaving tomorrow (today actually), and I still haven’t packed. But I bought slippers today (Esprit ones, mind you they were 25 euros!) and 2 sketch blocks, 1 A4 and 1 A3, and an art pencil pack (ranging from H to 8B, if I remeber correctly) and three additional HB-pencils. Yeah, that was it. Then mum bought us some ice cream and my stomach didn’t like that at all. Now I remember she also bought a 0.5l pepsi max bottle, and I forgot it in my bag! *runs to get her pepsi max*

I guess that’s it then. I’m leaving my dearest computer at home, since I don’t know if it’ll fit in the room. But I’ll be back in the weekend to finnish my packing and if it’ll fit, I’ll be dragging ol’ compy with me as well.