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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Useless Crap to Buy!
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Yey, useless crap!
I’ve had a CafePress shop forever, paid for by their referral fees. Unfortunately, they are ending the referrals, so I had to close my paid shop. It was a huge pain in the butt to redo everything into single, free shops, but I finally finished. The free stores only let you have one of each item listed, so people will have to tell me if they want an item with a different design on it. I can’t imagine it is a big deal, since I don’t expect anyone to buy anything.
There is some fun stuff, though. The top 2 rows are my Stvlive.com store, the bottom are a golden retriever store.
Layout
Saturday, March 7th, 2009
I’m working on the layout of my website, Stvlive.com the old fashioned way – with all the elements on paper that I can play around with.
Yes, I have a serious sharpie addiction!
It is so nice out! I was able to take the dogs out for their morning “business trip” with no coat or gloves and not freeze my fingers to the bone. I’m wearing sandals! Spring, spring, spring!
Ready to be inspired…
Thursday, March 5th, 2009I’ve been “blogging” since early 2000 (though I had an online diary of sorts since 1998) when I modified a guestbook script to let me make quick little posts throughout the day. It was much like Twitter, being mini journal entries, but I had little mood icons and photos in each post. When LiveJournal was starting up, I decided to join because of the commenting feature. I was user 2111 to join. I imported all my mini-blogs and went from there. At some point (maybe 2003?) I decided to code my own journal. I started from a simple diary script online and learned a lot about php and mysql while making the script my own. Over the years I added a lot to the script… Cute smilies, polls, a captcha for spam comments. I also continued to keep my LiveJournal updated by posting in both places every time.
Fast forward through 9 years of blogging! I’d begun weighing the pros and cons of changing to WordPress:
Pros:
- Finally getting to post via my cell phone!
- Having my posts automatically copied to LiveJournal
- More features, more secure, more frequent updates to the interface
- Easy posting interface that should inspire me to post more often
Cons:
- 9 years of blogging to import!
- Loosing some of my custom features and being unfamiliar with the code
- Did I mention I had 9 years of posts to import??
Well, the pros won, and Danny kindly updated the install I did so that he could use the new LJ import system to get everything into my shiny, new WordPress. It took no time to get the default template looking like my old blog. I’ve had to edit WP for work, so I am getting familiar with the templates and css they use. I have 3,000+ entries to tag and categorize, but I can pick away at that.
Not related, but my cell phone is cute!
The very first thing I did after the entries were imported was delete all the Twitter daily digests. I’d been having them posted to LiveJournal so there were be entries there and people wouldn’t think I’d died. I realize that that is something of a journal faux pas nowadays – I certainly wouldn’t have had them posted to my real journal. So they are gone, and I’ve deactivated them for good. I’m hoping that having a new blog to play with keeps me posting.
I did set my LiveJournal to send commentors to my site to comment. This is something I’d done for a while by hand until I got tired of having to type in links since nothing was automated. I realize this may keep some people from commenting, but that is fine for the time being. I’ve never felt a drive to get as many comments/visitors/hits as possible. It’s always really nice when I *do* get a lot, but there are more important things in the world!
So, what do you think of my new “home”? I’m sure I have a ton of “rearranging” to do still – I’ve only just begun.
New Blog
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
My Flowers!
Monday, February 23rd, 2009So, I’m finding all sorts of fun stuff while trying to hunt down hi-res photos on my hard drives. I came across a claymation (playdoh-mation?) movie I made in 2000. Hahaha…
Textbooks…
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Apparently, I’m mentioned in a textbook. I’d never have expected that! It seems that the book “Acting Out Culture” includes the essay “Watch Me! Webcams and the Public Exposure of Private Lives” by Brooke A. Knight. I’d seen the essay, but not heard of it being in a book. A new member mentioned it’s name in how she heard of my site.
Yes, the heyday of the “webcam girl” may be past, but it brings a nostalgic smile to my face to see it captured for posterity.
Anniversaries!
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Okay, this is my last entry for the day…
Two anniversaries fall in March for me. Wedding and Stvlive.com.
On the 17th, St. Patrick’s Day, Danny and I will have our 7th wedding anniversary. 7 years! Good think he hasn’t gotten sick of me yet! I don’t know if I should get him anything. He’s really hard to shop for. I can count on one hand the number of presents I’ve bought or made for him that he’s actually used. He tends to buy whatever he wants/needs. I’ll just have to shower him with kisses! (Awwww…)
On the 9th, my website, Stvlive.com, will turn 10!! Wow. Do I get presents for that?? Haha, right.
