December 6, 2006
The update
Argh. It's been too long and now there's way too much to say. So here's a post to get it all out of the way:
- I am done with school until (I think) January 14th. I also have a week off between Christmas and new years, during which I will probably work on this site and sleep. a lot. I have been feeling seriously sleep deprived lately.
- Comments are still not working correctly. Please try and comment, if you get an error, it probably saved anyway. I'm looking into new servers, Network Solutions is absolutely horrendous. They do a lot of things right, but it seems like every other month they break one of the four sites I host through them by changing something. Of course, even when I have not changed anything, it must be something I did. (A quick search for "Network Solutions sucks tells me I am not alone.)
PS, any suggestions for good web servers are appreciated.
- Also, if anyone subscribes to my feed, I realize it's off (line returns are not recognized) I switched to feed burner, but can't figure out how to fix this. I'm sure I'll figure out some tweak or another.
- My mom's gonna get Geoff and me a Wii for Christmas! if she can find one *crosses fingers*
- Also, my mom got a new UMPC, which is good for me because I got her old PDA. it's way cool, and I can now watch video podcasts on the go. Now if I could only find a decently priced keyboard for it, I would be all set.
- I had lunch with my dad the other day and realized we're a lot more alike than I ever though. Which is weird, but nice.
I thought I had more, but that's it for now.
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electronics life site updatePosted by Karin Dalziel on December 6, 2006 7:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)
December 22, 2006
You can hate me now
I have the week off between Christmas and New Years. You can hate me if you want, but after 6 ish years of working retail at Christmas, I feel entitled to enjoy my break.
So what do I plan to do? Mostly, sleep. and read. and play the DS.
I have a few projects and some cleaning I'd like to do, but that comes AFTER the sleeping, reading, and gaming.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
(I've also promised myself I will post more, so keep an eye out)
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Christmas vacation workPosted by Karin Dalziel on December 22, 2006 1:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
December 23, 2006
Call me scrooge
Even though I am, thankfully, not working retail for Christmas this year, I still feel decidedly scrooge like. Part of this has to do with the fact that Geoff still works retail, so I get to see less of him around the holidays (Merry Christmas). There's also the unavoidable stench of commercialism that pervades the air this time of year.
It's not that I don't like getting or giving presents, but there are very few people I actually feel qualified to get gifts for. Immediate family, good friends, and my husband. I'm really excited about a few of my gifts, I think they'll be appreciated. The rest of the gifts I buy are for people I see maybe once a year- I don't know what they already have, or what they would really like. I usually end up getting a gift certificate, and then think cynically "they'll probably just lose it." The worst part of the whole thing is, I feel powerless to change it. I wish I could just say "hey, I have everything I need, so why don't we just forgo the gifts this year. Buy yourself something nice (or just save the money)." I can't though. I just can't seem to bring it up - it's especially hard when it's not my side of the family.
All I know is, I already have too much crap. The day after Christmas always leaves me looking at my piles of new crap and thinking "where the hell will I put it all?"
I hate going to stores this time of year- for anything. I hate that if I want to buy a light bulb, I'll have to wait in a line 10 deep. I feel sorry for the poor retail employees I see people snapping at, it makes me sad.
I hate that everything has to be done BY CHRISTMAS and if not, it's THE END OF THE WORLD. Never mind that you can probably purchase an item easily a few weeks after Christmas. This attitude is what leads people to get so angry when over shopping: CNN Employee Nearly Mauled By Angry Shoppers Over Wii.
That said, I'm glad my family's Christmas isn't until two weeks AFTER Christmas this year. It really takes the pressure off.
Update: take a look at the first postcard on "Sunday Secrets" today.
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Christmas commercialism presents scroogePosted by Karin Dalziel on December 23, 2006 8:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
December 24, 2006
Color Coded Hipster PDA templates
I altered some DIY planner templates and created some of my own to make my new hipster PDA planner.
You can download some of the templates below:
Color coded templates (feel free to use as you wish, I'll be changing them, I'm sure)
I'm also planning on making some games. I know the hipster PDA is supposed to be about time management, but I'm all about wasting time, too. :)
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hipsterpda HPDA organize productivityPosted by Karin Dalziel on December 24, 2006 11:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
December 27, 2006
Test Site
I have bought some web space at "A Small Orange" and am trying it out. It's a little more expensive than some spaces ($10/month for 1000 MB of space), but so far, it's much, much faster. An entire movable type site rebuild takes less than 30 seconds, instead of 5 minutes, and so far, no errors commenting, posing entries, or making changes.
If the rest of the month goes as well, I think I will be staying.
I went with A Small Orange because they did not require me to sign into a year contract - I don't want to have to spend another year with a bad server because it is a pain to get out. So far, the customer support has been amazingly fast as well.
The test site it up here. take a look. I have a lot of work yet to do. Ugh.
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move websitePosted by Karin Dalziel on December 27, 2006 2:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)