[Thursday, July 20, 2000]

4:48 PM This weblog will soon be moving to a happy place, away from cruel banner ads. Oh, rejoice. Yay.

1:46 AM Perusing my old writings, I discovered possibly the least unromantic thing I have ever written: "I can't believe that I've been in love with someone for three years. But I can believe I've been in love with Sherazard for three years."

[Tuesday, July 18, 2000]

4:54 PM Jade quoted me in her weblog. It had to had to happen eventually. Now I know what it feels like.

4:29 PM Jade insists that she is "Selectivly Remedial"

1:11 PM I don't like learning a new programming language. It's just unnecassary to have all these different languages, with different syntax, which all do the same things. That said, PHP kicks ass.

12:23 PM Mailing List Fun: > Is it just me or do all the emails I send to this list get ignored? You're not controversial enough. > Every time I add to a thread, the thread doesn't get continued. Maybe it's because your comments are impossible to argue with.

[Monday, July 17, 2000]

6:52 PM Anticipation can be bad.

6:05 PM He wants me to link to him so that he can have something in his referral logs. That's pretty sad.

5:56 PM So, Everyone has already told you to go see X-Persuns, so I won't bother adding my meagre voice to the tsunami of noise.

[Sunday, July 16, 2000]

7:49 PM That's mean.

7:38 PM From The Best Readme File Ever: "When run on a Pentium III 1ghz with a gig of ram, a geforce, and a 21" monitor, it makes us extremely jealous"

3:58 PM Planescape: Torment music! Yes, it's tiresome to download each and every song, but I'll soon be putting alll the major themes into one file. Sometime.

[Saturday, July 15, 2000]

4:54 PM I now have the dubious honour of having read every peice of red meat there is.

4:49 PM I am so Bored! Everything is just about to happen for me. I'm just about to get a domain name for myself, and get an ad-free page. I'm just about to get my own G4. And so on. But right at this moment, there is nothing I can do. I can't concentrate. I can't think straight. i'm laggging way, way behind in my answering of email. I am really, really bored.

[Friday, July 14, 2000]

4:22 PM "How am I supposed to be a non-conformist while everyone else is trying to do the same?" Good point. But I don't think it's absolutely impossible. I'm currently working on this problem myself, and I have a few ideas.... 1] Look at all the other logs. Once you've done that, you'll be so sick of certain things (eg: links that change color on mouseover) that you won't be able to stomach the mere thought of them on your own log. 2] Make lots and lots of layouts. Betatest them on the web (as I'm doing right now). Record the features than people complain about the most, and only get rid of those features in re-designs. 3] Constant redesign is bad. Occaisional redesign which has more or less the same feel as the old design is good. 4] You could even concentrate on content rather than design? Nah....

[Wednesday, July 12, 2000]

2:17 PM Ultra-Long term Ambition: Create a web-browser or proxy/mediator(most likely a java applet, actually) which displays pages like this. (Why was I fiddling with screenshots? Well, you may notice that Dan's site has a slight glitch when veiwed on this machine - I was going to tell him, but then the temptation to apply "just a few filters" became to great to resist. May the design god forgive me.)

3:55 AM I'm not the only one to parody literary critics. At least, I hope that this is a parody. [Dan says I shouldn't use <link src=> notation anymore, because he made it up. Apparently. So, here's my new method of sourcing links: (link.finder == Dan) Yes, I realise that's the web design equivilant of an Evil Wizard kidnapping a Fair Princess to lure the White Knight into a Cunning Trap, but, really, how much variation can you get with these little sourcing notations? I guess I could just say: (Link stolen from a superior logger to make myself look good). Yes, I think I like that notation better. Nice and honest.]

2:43 AM It's been a good day. I've aquired several new email adresses, most notably at microsith.com. And that's what makes Emlyns happy. Apart from wanting a little stability and certainty in their little lives, but that's just wacky.

[Tuesday, July 11, 2000]

10:21 PM Stormdamage is a great place to send annoying SMS's to the webmistress. So go annoy her. Now. She deserves it. Sorry, but I think she's just asking for trouble, putting a form like that on her site.

[Friday, July 7, 2000]

5:26 PM In response to my previous post, I have realised that I require some guideline that i must stick to lest I fall further into the Abyss of Weblog addiction. The Distant Thoughts Declaration of Principles 1] I will never go a whole day exclusively linking to other weblogs, and will try to keep links to other weblogs to a minimum. 2] I will never leave the Webloggers webring, even if I get really, really popular. <stiffles a laugh> 3] I will never have a webcam, or even put a picture of me on this site. 4] I will keep shockwave and images in general to a minimum. 5] I will always put truth before humour value. Sometimes. 6] I will never use smilies, abreviations like "LOL", or misspellings like "Kewl". 7] I will not make this site of interest to exactly one person in the universe. Other sites, yes, but this site is for everyone, not for me. And anyone emailing me and mentioning this viz a viz a certain scene in a certain film by Orson Wells will be added to my Blocked Senders list.

4:58 PM I explained to my brother about the webloglog (and various other meta-weblogs). He said that this was nothing to worry about - that the three levels of comentary - content, talk about content, and talk about talk about content - were ubiqutous through all things, not just the web, and that a weblogloglog was not a serious possibility, that only the very worst of the Kewl people would try actually making one. Yes, I suppose that is so, because a weblogloglog would only have about five or so webloglogs to log. But as the number of weblogs increases, and it does so with terrifying swiftess, the number of meta-logs will also increase. About fifty meta-logs is probably more than enough to sustain a serious weblogloglog, so, by my estamate, once we reach three thousand moderately serious weblogs, there will be space enough for a real weblogloglog, not just a joke one. When will this stop? (If ever?) Assuming everyone on the planet gets a weblog (something we're not likely to see, but if that does happen), then a meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-meta-weblog may become a serious possibility. You go to your top-level log, which gives you all the one-less-meta gossip, and directs you to the best sites that can direct you to the best sites who can give you breaking news on the best sites which give you the best links to sites that can direct you to the greatest weblogs. Probably wouldn't bother actually following any weblog links out into the web, though. There wouldn't be time to check all your favouite daily webloglogloglogloglogs if you did that. My guess is that a new term will be coined to indicate a variable meta-level for a log. Since the word webloglogloglogloglog sounds like someone drinking out of a bottle, I'm guessing the term used will be "Glug". A top-level log would be considered Glug-Six, the ones below them Glug-Five, and so on. The lowest of the low, the common weblog, would be Glug-Zero, and the world-wide-web would be Glug-Negative-One. The lower a log's Glug Number, the lower it would be in the scheme of things, until the web itself would be beneath contempt. Gods, I hate weblogs. All of them.

[Saturday, July 1, 2000]

11:39 PM What do the millitary name their computers?

9:40 PM Cars give us individuality

9:38 PM Someone who shall remain reletively anonymous has somehow got the impression that I think of myself as an artist. So, let's get this clear: I am not an artist! I don't even like art!

1:19 PM Has anyone else ever gone through /usr/bin/girl one day only to find that you've seen every single link before? I need to stop all this internetting. Badly.

[Friday, June 30, 2000]

11:53 PM It seems Sherazard wore Black Nail Polish on at least one occaision. I feel another Perpetua entry coming on. I could rant about my current dilemma for pages.

11:42 PM [Via chat] Sherazard: I tried pming [Private Messaging] myself the other day. Sherazard: It just repeated what I typed. Emlyn: How symbolic.