June 14th, 2008 What I’ve Been Up To

To be honest, I really haven’t been doing much at all. In the Life area I’ve been preparing to go on vacation for a week to the Dominican Republic. Which I frankly don’t want to go to because of the people joining us. Horrible demon cousins of mine, I want to smack them around. Seriously. They’re awful.

I’ve been spending a lot of time with my big brother, it’s his 25th birthday soon. And like every year, he tells us what he wants. In this case, I gave him $30 to put into his Metal Gear Solid 4 purchase. He wanted the limited edition what-have-you. So, you’re welcome Mike! We’ve also been watching Dragon Ball Z together. Don’t laugh. When we were younger and living in central America, we’d watch it five days a week in Spanish. I guess it just holds dear to our hearts still. I’m not nearly as big on anime as I used to be but I still enjoy Dragon Ball Z with my bros.

Online, I’ve been helping a friend set up a few WordPress powered blogs for her family. Yay. I hope they’re happy. Originally the said sites were manually coded, which wouldn’t have been a problem if there weren’t so many bloody pages! I was like “You need WordPress!” Of course the transition didn’t go as smoothly but meh.

I’ve also updated my LiveJournal with a new name (stupid rename token is a ripoff) and design, along with redesigning and renaming my Twitter. As for this site? Not much is going on.

Oh yeah! I’ve started to post awful videos on Youtube! Check me out at The Silky Witch @ Youtube.com.

That’s enough shameless plugging, I think.

Emotionally, I feel really ignored. Not going to name any names, but you know who you are. =/ Talk to me, okay? Blah. Don’t wanna be emo, ESCAPE THE EMO!

Right now I’m watching Simba run into the glass door over and over again. I don’t know why he keeps doing that. I’m thinking maybe he wants to go outside? But it’s too dark and out late out for him to be wandering around. He’ll end up coming home at like 3am. He’s done it before.

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June 11th, 2008 Windows Live Writer! Again!

I stopped using Windows Live Writer when WordPress 2.5 came out, because as soon as that did, total support (at least on my end) for my blog was just about cut off.

I’m not sure if it was WLW’s fault, or WordPress, or just my own. But I installed the beta for the next update to WLW and alas! I can blog with it again! This makes me extremely happy while I’m on a Windows machine because this app is so nice! Very simple to use, to the point, pretty, and I just. I don’t know. I remember the first time using it and falling in love instantly.

Have you ever had that really weird geeky experience with a program / application / whathaveyou?

I’ll be blogging soon about my adventures in Livejournal and YouTube. Not that it’s very thrilling but I do have some things to jot down here! Later, all!

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March 27th, 2008 Random Tidbits

[update] I gave Simba his shampoo bath. He behaved quite well this time, I was surprised and very pleased! Also vacuumed the stairs to get rid of any flea eggs. The poor thing barely had any fleas. I saw none drop during the bath and I took a good look in his fur and at the skin and nothing. It was when I was drying him that two dead fleas fell out. Win. [/update]

I went out with my grandmother (from Cuba, my mother’s mother), my mother and my aunt. It was interesting, I bought quite a few things for myself (which I’ll post in a special blog post I swear. it will include pictures!) for a very low prices. I rule at being cheap, ha!

“It’s not that I’m racist, I just don’t like black people” as said by my mother during the car ride over to Macy’s.

“God made animals so humans can eat them” quoting my aunt after finding out my older brother Mike is a vegetarian (and has been for about three years now).

Isn’t that just ridiculous stuff? I had to endure crap like that all day. I love my aunt, grandma and my mom even though their close-mindedness really gets on my nerves at times.

Simba has fleas. Even though we tried so hard to prevent them. I gave him medication in his fur and skin once a month (store bought, I must confess. as in, I went to Walmart) and he has a flea collar. But alas, I read up on a lot of cat related articles and neither of those things work.

Must’ve been the fact that he’s outside a lot and hangs around strays that did him in.

Later today I’ll be giving him a bath with dog shampoo that kills fleas and ticks (which works on both dogs and cats because we’ve tried it before on him, very potent stuff!). We can’t afford real flea medication like Frontline or Advantage at the moment so we’ll have to make due with randomly pulling socks on our hands and bathing him.

I’ve upgraded my WordPress 2.5 install to the second release candidate. Win.

Waiting for my Wacom Bamboo tablet to arrive in the mail. I purchased the tablet and paid for my Livejournal’s subscription the day before yesterday. My tablet will be arriving any day between Sunday and Wednesday. Mucho thanks to Mitch and Hazel who encouraged and inspired me to buy the same tablet they own. Ha, I’m so original.

I’ll be writing reviews on my site (in other words, ads) to support costs. I’ll try not to spam too much. I’m sorry guys. I already felt like a disappointment with the small little “Check this out” boxes below my entries.

The reason I’m doing this is because my family and I are completely broke and we need to pay bills. I need to pay bills as well and since we’re short on money, it’s kind of hard to do. You know? Can’t pay bills with invisible money.

I’m working on a secondary blog that you guys don’t have to read and suffer through because of ads. Once I get to three months posting on that blog I’ll move all advertisements over. This will NOT be a permanent thing. Posts that are a complete ad (none of it has any thing to do with me, I’m advertising a product or website or something) will have the label “Ad:” following by whatever title I want to give it.

I’m going to start school back up again soon. I’ve decided the whole college thing right now isn’t for me. I’m going to get a license in medical billing and coding and sometime down the line I’ll be getting a license in EKG.

I know it’s stupid to put off college. But my goals in life as soon as I graduated from highschool were to get a decent job for a few years, save up, and travel the world in hopes of finding myself. And by finding myself I mean finding a faith that I truly can connect with.

I’ve been studying a bit about Gnosticism and I’m really interested. My closest female friend (who I’m sure would rather remain anonymous for this) told me all about the ideas concerning Gnostics and it makes amazing sense.

Even if that faith is for me, I’d still like to travel the world and learn (and be surprised!) about the person that I am. Because I like thinking about stuff like that. Humans can do so many amazing things.

My nose itches. Someone scratch it for me? PLZKTHX

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March 24th, 2008 Why I Won’t Leave WordPress

Despite not having any programmer blood or ability in me, I love scripts. Platforms. Software. Whatever you want to call them. I love them.

I especially love reading reviews on blog scripts and CMS software. Not because I have any intention of moving away from WordPress, but because I’m curious. I can’t really say why I like it. But I enjoy reading reviews, I enjoy downloading scripts I haven’t tried before, I enjoy testing them on my computer (mucho thanks to WAMP).

I spend hours a week doing things related to this; Testing, reading reviews, looking up tutorials, comparing scripts. It just makes me happy inside.

As you know (by the title of this post, my WordPress category, and the footer of this site) I run WordPress. I’ve been running WordPress for a little over half a year now and I can’t be any happier. But this wasn’t my first time using WordPress. I actually hated it back in the 1.0 days.

But that’s a long story. WordPress and I have had our hiccups but they weren’t anything drastic, after about two months we moved in together permanently and WordPress and I have had lovely little babies. Yes, I produce children that fast.

So why am I looking at other software behind WordPress’ back? I have no itention of leaving WordPress behind, it does absolutely everything I wanted it to do when I embarked for a holy grail of a script.

Initially half a year ago I got tired of having to manually edit my pages. Some people couldn’t comment on my blog, the comment form of the script I was using didn’t work for everyone. I wanted nice urls instead of everything ending with .php. All in all, I wanted something that was simple, easy to customize, and let me manage my whole website via admin interface.

I went through a lot of scripts and then I “broke down” and used WordPress. Haven’t looked back.

I look at other scripts because I’m curious. I like to see what’s out there. I whole-heartedly believe that, with anything, there is always something out there better than what you’re using. So I’m constantly curious and I like checking out what’s in the wild. But at the end of the day, I come back to trusty WordPress. We cuddle in each other’s arms and watch the kids try to kill each other.

I’ve tried the two big ones (along with dozens of other scripts), ExpressionEngine and MovableType. They were great and fun to use, but I won’t be switching to either of them.

Why not ExpressionEngine?

Why not MovableType?

In fact, the only script that I would ever consider to switch to isn’t even a major player but it’s developing very well, it’s called PivotX. I’m keeping my eye on it. I’ve already tried the last two alphas and I’m really impressed. It’ll be going into open beta (it’s been in open alpha) at the end of March / Beginning of April.

Posted in Webbie, WordPress | 2 Comments »


March 18th, 2008 New Theme

Okay so here I am making the obligatory “New Theme” post. I was originally going to write about something else completely different (seriously. I have a draft post and everything) but I don’t know. I don’t believe I’ll be posting it since it’s no longer relevant. So, onward with the show!

This new theme is mostly CSS and divs (I’ll admit this, the footer is Epic Fail on my part. I used a table. I couldn’t for the life of me manage to make the three divs float next to each other and keep the black background. It was five in the morning so I gave up). The theme, called “solitude” (with a lowercase S) involved a very interesting process to be honest. It developed into something very nice (I think it’s nice anyway) and different while I was coding it.

I specifically went into the whole coding process with a different color scheme and look in mind- But somewhere along the way I changed the background color and went “I’ve got to use these colors somehow…”. And so I did. The theme I was originally trying to create, and port from Livejournal, was minty-peach’s Boss 66. You can definitely see the similarities.

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