2005-07-30
My “Nerd Score”
I finally remembered where I ran across this funny little
jewel.
2005-07-29
Fanfiction – “Harry Potter and the Flak Jacket Mafia”
Title: Harry Potter and the Flak Jacket Mafia
URL: @ Outpost Daria
Author: Canadibrit
Source: Harry Potter, Daria
Rating: 5.5/6
Type: Crossover
Length: Really long one-shot
Well, I decided to add at least one more review to the blog before merging them into my main site. I should warn any potential readers that, while it is good, it is script-form fanfiction.
The story basically follows the premise “What if the Daria cast were rushed into Hogwarts, skipping enough years to catch up with the HP cast?” I have never seen Daria myself, but this fanfic has made me seriously consider it. (I prefer things which can be read at high speed like Fanfiction, Manga, Novels, and the like.) For the record, I found it through the comment boards on the Anime Addventure.
Anyway, that’s all I’ve got. I’d say more if I had watched Daria.
2005-07-28
Status of updates
Ok, since posts have been a little sporadic lately, I think anyone who reads this deserves a proper explanation. Here you go.
I’ve been very busy lately so I’ve spent most of my time working on reducing wasted time. (mostly by switching to more efficient content management tools) As a side-effect, I can’t blog as much as I’d like (since blogging is my excuse for spending free time on non-productive activities like reading fanfiction, webcomics, etc.) However, I have done my best to keep the interesting stuff coming. As such, any interesting sites I want to share will be available through my del.icio.us bookmarks (recently created) so I can combine saving them and sharing them into a single action.
New webcomics will result in an update to my GoodWebcomics page and new gender-bending stuff will result in updates to my gender-bending fiction index. My site now uses MoinMoin for content management and I find it to be even easier to work with than a WordPress blog.
Also, I will continue the switchover from blog to website when I can find free time so I’m not yet sure whether I’ll post fanfiction reviews to my site or my blog. It all depends on whether I begin the conversion of existing entries before or after I resume reading and reviewing.
Hopefully, I’ll soon have some kind of plan for a less fragmented method of offering update notification. Anyway, now you know why things are the way they are.
2005-07-26
Site Problems
Well, my site had to be taken down for a few hours due to some kind of script mess-up. I think I’ve solved the main problem but there are a few other cases where things can be difficult. I’m working on solving them and the site should hopefully be back to normal (and faster) within the next day or so.
2005-07-21
Article – Iran executes gay teenagers
I was wandering through del.icio.us when I found this article. I highly recommend you share it.
2005-07-09
Added an “El Goonish Shive” review
I’ve added a more detailed review/preview of El Goonish Shive to the GoodWebcomics page of my newly-renovated website.
You’ll also find that I moved (not copied) my “favorite webcomics” from the blog to that page in preparation for converting the list into review/preview segments. My goal is to stop the loss of relevant data to “blog expiry” (my term for posts becoming too old for people to notice them) by moving anything relevant to my main site (which now uses a wiki backend for easy editing).
