Posts Tagged ‘phpfan’

it should bloody well show

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

It’s going to be one of the scariest things I’ve done in years, far more than college (which I’m going back to for Spring!) and getting my BA, but I’m going to see if I can do some sort of rehabilitation programs and work. I know that seems really easy but it hasn’t been for me. I need to get out of this house, out of this room, out of this chair. I’ve been stagnant on the job front and pretty much have been since I finished with the pharmacy tech clinicals.

I’ve been mainly working on my main website and there have been a number of changes. I changed my hosting from Wiredtree (excellent host, I do recommend them) to Linode and basically created my own server without CPanel, the usual suspect. It’s been a real learning experience and I’ve worked so much through the command line that I sometimes got sick of it. I’m far from good at it but it’s been fun and it’s been a change.

I’ve also started work on phpFan 4, which has almost all new code aside from the basic functions. There are going to be several new modules and instead of making phpFan and the fanlisting mangagement script separate like I first imagined I’ve been combining them.

On the mental health front I’ve had some setbacks but have always bounced back to a better level of functioning, which to most people would not be saying much but to me it means the world. My sister had a big seizure — not the typical sort, something that I’m only giving that name because I’m not sure of a proper term for it — that lasted two hours. My mom says she was moving so violently she thought her head was going to come off. It’s been an uphill battle towards getting well again for her and she’s had to take leave from school. She’s still not free of the seizure activity. She’s been a real inspiration to me, makes me want to do better with my own health.

i never existed in this busy city

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Gearing up for school. I want to buy my books early. I basically know what classes (two) I’m taking but I wish I had the 3:30 class because it would mean there was only 45 minutes rather than nearly two hours between classes.

I finally finished Atonement by Ian McEwan. I enjoyed the read far more than I expected to, this was sort of a snap judgment based on the reception of the movie by people I respect. Good to know that it’s almost always true that the book is better than the movie. I really enjoyed how Briony, though older and wiser, never really lets go of her need to atone. She may be dead by the time it happens but she won’t give up on it even though it would not have made a bit of difference in anybody’s life. The images, especially in the first part of the novel, are beautiful. A languorous life upset.

I think I need to get back into working on phpFan, revamping the scripts for my artwork and writing sub-sites has taught me more, it’s given me a different idea for templating, at the very least. That’s always been my stumbling block, unfortunately. I still need to work on the Gallery of Pain (yeah, the name, wince) members database/submission system.

I haven’t been writing much, the last of any good was a short story/fanfiction. Here is a poem I wrote that sort of calls attention to my annoyance with making glamorous and sophisticated speakers in poetry.

sophisticate

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