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August 11, 2007 at 10:23 pm · Filed under Site Specific
Because I am too busy working on my thesis to write anything here, please enjoy this list of search strings that bring people here. My next assigment: I will write a short story in which I used these strings.
| eggo waffles.com |
| kami no shizuku |
| maine coon cat |
| maine coon |
| maine coon cats |
| sarushima |
| mainecoon cat |
| peanut cream |
| huge cats |
| barbapapa toys |
| tuvaq |
| mainecoon |
| coon cat |
| taitei meaning |
| blue heart backgrounds |
| google stalk |
| creamed pies |
| pictures of someone burping |
| lani billard |
| mainecoon cats |
June 11, 2007 at 6:27 pm · Filed under Site Specific
in the process of renovating…stripped down the wallpaper…excuse the appearance…but need to catch a bus so can’t finish now…
need some change…will get to it again tomorrow.
UPDATE: Yeah this might take a while. I guess the proper thing to do would be to play with the CSS offline and then when everything is perfect, move the new version online. But I think it might be more fitting to have all aspects of this change, of this metamorphosis, online. I’ve played enough this morning. Excuse the mismatched fonts and the bareness. Maybe I should tell you about something interesting to make up for the mess.
October 9, 2006 at 4:05 pm · Filed under Site Specific
My wifi pursuit (see post below) was motivated by disappointment with my keeping track of thoughts, findings and adventures. From now on, I am making an effort to write at home, on the road, in the train, and while eating cake. The other thing I need to do to get things out and in this box is lose the need for flow. So things might get scattered. Why am I explaining? I was about to explain why I was trying to explain myself….but….I’m going to stop…..now.
July 24, 2006 at 7:44 pm · Filed under Site Specific
I just upgraded my WordPress version with 2 clicks. I thought that bombs would have dropped and this site would have been scrambled but it “looks” like it all worked. Is this the quiet before the storm? Please, if you see anything buggy let me know.
Now to install a moblogging plugin (yay!).
Busy weekend.
June 19, 2006 at 10:40 am · Filed under Site Specific
Ah so yes, last week I was feeling really self absorbed. I was wondering how much thoughts about my own life and worries were inhibiting me from creativity and progress. I was also wondering if writing here a) encouraged me to think about myself a lot thus further distract me from work or b) helped get the ideas out so that I could continue on with work thoughts. So I decided to avoid posting for a bit. Now, I am thinking that this site promotes case b) so I feel better about spending time writing : )
Still…I feel pretty busy and have things I want to get to. Tonight I will go to a cooking class with Mayumi so I don’t have so much time at work today. More later.
June 13, 2006 at 6:57 pm · Filed under Site Specific
Not that you were sitting on the edges of your seats or anything, but just in case you were wondering…won’t be posting much this week. Think I am on strike from myself. Will be back next week. Same cat time, same cat channel.
May 18, 2006 at 1:30 pm · Filed under I am feeling..., Site Specific
I really really look forward to getting comments. It is such a nice form of communication for me because although it is great chatting with people long distance in real time…it doesn`t quite hit the mark. So when I see that I have an email for a comment to be approved I get really excited!!
Then it is actually spam…grrr.
They toy with my emotions and the frustrating thing is a) spammers have no clue who they are toying with and b) they are wasting their resources posting to my site anyway! Who are these people? It seems so impersonal that it seems impossible for there to be a person behind it but there must be someone.
Spam is just weird…and evil.
February 9, 2006 at 8:14 am · Filed under I am feeling..., Site Specific
I’ve been thinking about the content of my website lately; thinking about its purpose, my goals and motivation, the benefits, etc. The theme of my thinking is generally:
why? overdone. redundant. who cares?
I feel somewhat negative about writing especially when I regurgitate a lot so I’m going to try avoiding that for the next little while…at least directly.
Yes kids, I’m gonna try to make this all about me.
As much as I can at least. My days have been super awesome so there isn’t much I can complain about. There was that alarm that went off at 6am this morning. It kept on going and going but I was already soaking in the tub so I couldn’t complain.
The head mop is getting chopped at 9am which means this will almost certainly be a good hair day…all I need to do is maintain my esteem for an hour and then I will be on the top of the world. I have this thing with going to salons and it is likely the subreason (the main reason being money) for why I wait so long between hair cuts. As soon as I walk into the place I immediately become self-aware and awkward. I feel like I’m surrounding by a club of fashionable beautiful people that are on top of everything and my only access to that club is by paying large sums of money to be a character in the periphery. Very negative, I know, but I’m working on it. Seriously though, I think I spend more time making myself up to get my hair cut than I do for the odd date here and there.
Speaking of date…I need to find one because it could make life just that much more interesting. That and I only have another month and a half before I check out of Vancouver so I need not to worry about implications of possible dates. Unfortunately, I think that I might not know how, or maybe I did at one point but I’ve forgotten. If you have any tips please let me know. For now I’ll just pretend that I’m beyond dating and that there are more important things in life. *closes eyes, tosses head, and tilts nose up in air*
January 23, 2006 at 10:59 pm · Filed under Site Specific
This is evil. I was all pumped to get up at 5 and hit the 6:30 am yoga class. Oh my rubber arm I don’t know if I’ll be able to do it anymore! So I roll over and open waffles to start browsing (waffles sleeps next to me).
Website stats > Search Query Report > horseback riding trot butt blog
That’s all one query. Google it…I come up first. Hehe.
I love checking up on my search queries. I laugh, I’m amazed, and then I feel bad because it’s likely that my site didn’t actually have the valuable information needed.
December 4, 2005 at 4:30 pm · Filed under Site Specific
Funny thing – me being the trigger-happy deleting person I am and figuring that the blog transplant was successful, I decided to delete the old archives. Then I googled myself to see if, though highly unlikely since I think it takes some time for their bots to find you, the new site comes up. No… …but all of my old posts are listed. All which return 404 errors when you navigate to them. Hmm. Yeah I didn’t really think that one out.
I did some searching and I found that there is a way to remove directories on your site from Google’s index. So I created this file, robots.txt, which tells the Google-bots and other search engine bots which directories I want to “disallow” from their indexes. My request is “pending” so in the meantime, I’ve set up an “I’m sorry” page to be returned in the event of 404s.
Still, I’m a little worried. On the page where I can check the removal status, it says:
You may remove your URL from Google’s results or your Usenet posts from Google Groups. URLs and posts will typically be removed within 5 days of a successfully submitted request. Please keep in mind that submitting via the automatic URL removal system will cause a temporary, six months, removal of your site from the Google index.
k – so does that mean that my entire site will be banished from Google for 6 months?!! Oh boy. What if someone is google-stalking me?!
This whole experience is worrying me, my anxiety is worrying me. Why do I care so much about google hits? Maybe because I know my name is unique and I feel as though I should be continuously writing a search result story with a collage of links?
Ha ha…really…I need to get out. So I think I’m going to see Just Friends tonight with Noah. Not normally the type of movie I would pay 10$ for, but it was filmed in Regina and I am feeling especially fond of the city and its people lately. In two weeks I will be there and feeling better. In three weeks I will be missing Vancouver again.
December 1, 2005 at 11:13 pm · Filed under Site Specific
I made it to WordPress (I think…let me know if there are problems with the site). Things seem stable, the template is starting to work itself out. Of course initially I wanted to recreate my blogger template but it didn’t work out that way. Mostly because I use tables in the template and from what I know tables are obsolete and should be avoided when using css stylesheets. They are a bit of a pain to get working for you so after accepting that things wouldn’t look exactly the same, I was happy to ditch the tables.
Oh but WordPress is sooo addictive. There are so many things I can do, things I can choose from, then what I had with Blogger. The categories (!!!!) oh my gosh. The categories…I needed those. I could spend all night tagging past entried, I just might do that. Another great thing is that this is all running on MY server…no 3rd party! A number of people have mentioned that they almost left a comment but were confused when taken to the Blogger comment page. It’s alll here now!
But when do I unveil? The old site is still up…I will need to redirect people to here…when do I unveil…..
December 1, 2005 at 4:23 pm · Filed under Site Specific
So I wanted to try Word Press today. I was trying to be very very careful; installing in a new directory, saving the old blog before importing, etc.
Still I managed to screw it up and delete my blogger template – yikes! An hour later and I *think* I have it all back. Yay!
November 28, 2005 at 4:09 pm · Filed under Site Specific
Oooo I am very excited with how the site looks now…it is just more “alive” so I feel like posting more. I should be careful though because I have the potential to complain a lot today. So instead let me introduce you to some new things…
Say hello to some links on the bottom righthand side. There you will find some friends with relatively public blogs, a link to my flickr page and a new one, my CiteULike page. Phillip starting raving about CiteULike a long time ago but I couldn’t be bothered then. Now that I am back knee-deep in lit review it is proving to be rather useful. To make it not all about my thesis I am also using it to keep track of books I have read, am reading, or will read for pleasure. Great little tool!
November 27, 2005 at 10:23 pm · Filed under Site Specific
I am screwing around with the look of this site because I was getting bored with it. Visually that is. Please let me know how the new stuff works in your browser (or doesn’t work). Also let me know if the colours or backgrounds offend you / hurt your eyes.
August 24, 2005 at 11:55 am · Filed under Site Specific
…that blogger had a small program you could download to your desktop and use to make blog updates. Something like an instant messaging client but when I say things they can be quickly published online. I guess the drawback of this would be that I don’t have to think as much about what I say before I say it :P
But random thoughts…I’m listening to music on iTunes and I let unlimited amounts of anybody connect to my playlist. I was checking my preferences because I couldn’t remember what I had set my shared name to. Then I checked it again. And again. Can you believe it? I’m getting my need for attention satisfied by the number of people connected to my iTunes library.
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