Thursday, August 28, 2003

We're going to need another Timmy!
I hate making mistakes. Or at least looking back at something I did and thinking about it being a mistake.

It's good to learn from mistakes, and it's probably one of the most long-lasting ways of learning, but I still hate making them in the first place. I must look pretty stupid at times. And I want to be told that, strangely. I need to know if I've made a mistake, even though 'ignorance is [apparently] bliss'. I'd rather know.

Bleh.
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Reiteration
I wanted to go back to something I commented on in Sara's MyOtaku, but Vernica had more or less said what I was wanting to re-say.

So don't let these guys make you think that wanting a best friend is a bad thing. -Vernica

I didn't enirely agree with what I was typing at the time, it was kind of silly of my to write it. It is nice to have a 'best' friend, although it does seem more of a superficial comfort to me- the friends are the same, it's just a stigma that the label has with it. And, honestly, it is a comforting label. But Vernica has a very good point, and I'm not anyone else, so nor should my advice necessarily be followed as if I am.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2003

*smiles*
I have lots to say, but I have to go out. Some good, some not so good, but either way I'm going to get done what I should have done.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2003

o_O;
I know I tend to have a habit of missing the blindingly obvious... but how do you edit the HTML on these sites? I can't find a thingy anywhere. I guess the post thing'd be the same as OB, like bold text, italic text and soforth, but there are all these pretty backgrounds and fonts I've never seen and... whoo. I guess this is why I'll never be able to make a good website ^_^;

EDITS: Okay, it's not like OB. Silly triangular brackety things.
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Monday, August 25, 2003

Not the Mama!
Mmm, as much as I like having Mum back, the dogs have become somewhat distant to me. I loved being closer to them- they'd always try and come to me for attention and wouldn't question if I had to take the for a walk.

Now things are back to normal, they don't try and find me any more. And Romulus has gone back to his 'I hate routine changes' attitude, which means he takes five minutes until he reluctantly decides that I can take him for a walk.

It's not much, just one of those things...
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Incoherence
This site, as of the time of typing this, is ranked 30th. Yay me.

Boy, I'm tired. Two-day battles can really take it out of you, heh.

I'm wondering also whether to use this instead as my bog or alongside it, hmm.

And finally... it really annoys me when people use too many apostrophes. You don't need them for plurals! Just to show ownership or as an abbreviation. Gah...

My Buddy's = wrong in this context. If you were saying 'My Buddy's Sock' or something, it'd be alright. Unless it was owned by many buddies. In which case it'd be "My Buddys' Sock". Although why they'd have a communal sock is beyond me.

I don't even know why I'm saying this. Most of you probably know it anyway o_O; I just want to rant, heh.
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Friday, August 22, 2003

Dodge this... *BANG!*
Heh, I downloaded a whole load of Matrix sounds and put them onto my computer ^_^

Now, whenever I get a PM or when I sign off AIM, I have Morpheus saying "At last!". It's really cool. Although I had to change my Exit Windows noise. It was Neo's entire closing speech, which lasts about 48 seconds. It doesn't sound like a lot, but it's actually a fair chunk of dialogue. And my computer doesn't like it. Phillistine.

It gives a great dramatic effect, though.
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Facade
There's only so long I can not talk about things that bother me. I've been restraining two subjects which annoy me, but I'm afraid to say it because they're only superficial things and there's bugger all I can do about them anyway. And I'm not even sure if I've got the right end of the stick.

So... yeah. I'm good, but not great. I need to find someone impartial, heh.
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Thursday, August 21, 2003

Yaoi
I PMed maladjusted to join the Yaoi fanclub. I hope I won't offend Milliefan. I'm not anti-'Anti-Yaoi', I just like the pairing of Julian and Tori from CardCaptor Sakura. So I'm neither entirely for or against it- some things I like, and some I don't. Non-canon pairings I often don't agree with, unless I feel they should really go together. It just seems a little out of place, otherwise.

*shrugs* But still, people are allowed to believe what they want to believe.

I quite like being agnostic.
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Popularity
A lot of people seem to be bothered about page ratings on myOtaku, and I can't really see the point. It's like post counts on OB. They don't mean anything. So what if you're site's number one? Big deal. I'd rather write for myself than everyone else.

I guess this was sparked off by the 'come visit my site!' posts in various places. If I like your site, I probably will have found it anyway, and if I haven't I don't really want to be badgered into it unless it has something I really need or want or find interesting. That's not to say that only popular people are interesting and resourceful, but it gets on my nerves sometimes.

I get a slight hypocritical twinge when I write that, though, because I like having friends. But I comfort and rassure myself with the difference between friends and popularity. Popularity can be a very superficial thing (such as the number of visits to a site), whereas friendship isn't. It goesfar deeper and isn't likely to be lost as soon as someone more interesting turns up. I value my friendships a lot more than I do my post count or site ranking.

I must admit, it is nice having a new guestbook entry or reply to something I've said, but I really don't mind as long as I can still be friends with the people I care about.
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