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This post contains strong language, reader discretion is advised.
I'd like to point out right now that the shade of red my hair is, while being natural has a very unique color name, it's called LIVID BEYOND BELIEF. The jackass roofers claim they finished the job Monday, but I have my doubts since I don't recall them working on the front part of the roof at all which was part of the contract. I'm only partly annoyed at them for that, what really has me mad as all Hell at those bastards is what they did to my mother's rose bush. The words to describe the damage are beyond the scope of our language today, so I will take some pictures in the morning to put along side some I took a while ago to share with you all here, but the faint of heart would be discouraged from viewing them, the damage is that graphic.
Sorry, I can't really do this today so cut to the chase.
Comments:
Yensid:
Whenever I mention something like that, I always try to have a reference handy, as a courtesy.
I didn't get that e-mail because the address I signed up to MyO with back in 2003 is no longer accessable, I hated the service provider anyway. I did see an announcement about a new mailing list on TheO a while back, and followed through on the provided link with my current e-mail. To my knowledge, the newsletter isn't a regular thing, I can remember getting only like two or three in 2004, if that many. I'm hoping the new one will be a more regular thing, as long as they don't get Anime-Pulse (the Podcasters) to put it together for them.
I wouldn't say that I "know" him, but the facts of the matter say otherwise. I frequent his blog, and post comments, and once in a while (usually to complain about something) send him an e-mail. I like to visit his blog to keep up with what's going on on the site, he is the founder, and he does post about projects and features, in an interesting if not cryptic way. I know he's more aware of my presense than I thought because in a comment (read hte comment thread to the article on the Con in Vegas), he did address me by the nickname I sign my e-mails with, which kind of creeped me out to see, but it's cool at the same time.
I checked out the Amaya editor's onsite bug list, the list of known bugs already reported, and my image linking bug is listed so they know about it already. If I read that page right, the next build should have the image link issue corrected. Till then, I just do that part by hand.
Magnus Lensherr
I do feel I'm a bit of a heel for going off the way I did without thinking of the overseas Otaku who would have a tougher time getting to Las Vegas Nevada USA than I would. That's all right, there are Cons in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and there was that Transformers Bot-Con in Kentucky earlier this year, so there are cons close, but still not close enough for me to be able to afford the trips. I have never been to a single animeé convention in my life either as much as I would like to go to one.
I'll certainly try, but it's not going to be easy for the next few days.
My offline writing project, it's a personal project, and I haven't really discussed the details of it online here yet. When it's closer to being finished I'll tell you more about it. I set the goal to have the first draft done by Christmas so I can then polish it for my purposes.
will u suck mine?
That's quite all right, half the time, no wait, most of the time, I don't know what I'm talking about either. With the XHTML thing, I'll just get with the W3C on the bug with their program (Dreamweaver is the only HTML editor program I can recall off the bat as an example). No worries on that, I know my way around HTML enough to be able to tweak the base code I get from Amaya. About the con in Las Vegas, well, I'm kind of over that already so no worries there either. The roof, well, I covered that already in my main content area before the comments.
sikaurai
If you're into that RSS stuff and have a reader, or your browser supports RSS feeds or "live bookmarks" you can follow the directions provided here to add The Otaku to your reader or browser. That way you won't be out of the loop, and won't have to remember to go to the page all the time.
Ouch, and I thought I had it bad. At least in my case if a Con came to the Capitol, Charleston, that's about an hour's drive away from me, otherwise theyd be about two hours away at the most in any of the other major (if anywhere in WV can be called that) cities. You'd be on the road for more than two hours, assuming an average speed of 60MPH. Of course, then I'd have to come up with the money to get there.
kout3uka
I only learn bits of HTML to be able to do things to web pages that I want to do, if I don't want to do it, I don't know the HTML for it.
You've already asked me that question a couple posts ago, I answered it here. Don't forget to come back to me when you're done reading, it's quite a lengthy response.
Breakfast Squid
As I mentioned in previous comments, the W3C knows the bug is there, and hopefully the next build of their Amaya program will have it fixed. Till then I just wrap the anchors around the embedded image url myself, that's all. It's a minor nuisance, and really no big deal.
This Con isn't till January, just a couple days after my birthday to be exact, they're doing preregistration for it now. I have TheO's main page set as my home page in both IE and Firefox so every time I get online, it's right there waiting for me. I mentioned the way to get their RSS feed if you check those kinds of things in a previous comment, something to think about (If you use Firefox, it supports "live bookmarks" - which are RSS feeds, and Avant browser does Feeds too).
No thanks are necessary, I write from the heart, and that takes an unbending ear sometimes.
Shireishou
If I understand the designation correctly, XHTML is a very strict HTML standard (it literally means (e)Xtensible HyperText Markup Language. It's HTML defined as an XML application, whatever an XML application is. The anchor bug looks like it'll be repaired in the next release of Amaya, the website says it was fixed on October 27 this year. My build is an older one, and they haven't put out a new release yet, so I have to wait for that, but I'll do the things I know how maually till then.
