Eileene Dot Net

Little Black Dress

"There are chances you take,
choices you make,
and not everyone's got the moxy to face the spotlight.
Good luck."

Fidelity - Regina Spektor

And suppose I never met you
Suppose we never fell in love
Suppose I never ever let you kiss me so sweet and so soft
Suppose I never ever saw you
Suppose we never ever called
Suppose I kept on singing love songs just to break my own fall
Just to break my fall
Break my fall

All my friends say that of course its gonna get better

I never love nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting by heart truly
I got lost
In the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind
All this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart

- Regina Spektor "Fidelity"

Meta Information

I love brushes. I use brushes from:

Designfruit - One of the best sources out there by Jason Gaylor
CALLMEREAL - Another fantastic resource by Jarad Johnson
Flyguy Designs - Essentially the third part of my holy trinity of brush sites, by Dan Spencer

angelic-trust.net
SEISHIDO.biz
Obsidian Dawn
Papersweets
In Obscuro - Mostly for icon frames
Misplaced Moments - Mostly for textures

I use fonts from many many sources, but my favorites are:

P22 - I've been a member of their annual club from the beginning. They are my favorite font resource.

This list is constantly being updated as I use the products of these wonderful resources.

A List Apart...

Definitely take part if you do any professional work involved on the web.

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

The Good
I managed to upgrade Movable Type to 3.34. Yay! That should provide me more interesting options to play with over 3.2, especially in terms of new plug ins and the like.

The Bad
It wasn't installing properly for a long time. Then I read the fine print regarding one of the configurations and it went through. I spent 30 minutes stressing out on something that, if I just read the instructions, would've gone through in 30 seconds. Bad me.

The Very, Very Ugly
After I upgraded (yay!) I installed PluginManager, which was relatively painless, in order to upload MediaManager and its assorted prerequisites. After a bit, it seemed to all install well. I got myself an Amazon access key and associate id and put them in my settings. I managed to get it searching well for the items I want, but when I attempt to add them to my queue I get this error:

An error occurred:

Undefined subroutine &MTAmazon3::Plugin::ItemLookupHelper called at lib/MediaManager/App.pm line 404.

I have no idea what it means or what to do about it. I'll probably send a note to Byrne Reese about it, especially since the the link to MTAmazon32 appears to be broken.

Argh. Struggling with MT can be very ugly at times.

What happened to the design?

Whoa! Where did the styles go?

To know more about why styles are disabled on my website visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.

That's right, folks. Just for today, I am naked!

Life on Mars

It's a God awful small affair
To the girl with the mousey hair,
But her mummy is yelling, "No!"
And her daddy has told her to go,
But her friend is no where to be seen.
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seats with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen,
But the film is sadd'ning bore
For she's lived it ten times or more.
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

Sailors
Fighting in the dance hall.
Oh man!
Look at those cavemen go.
It's the freakiest show.
Take a look at the lawman
Beating up the wrong guy.
Oh man!
Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show.
Is there life on Mars?

-- David Bowie "Life on Mars"

A Story That Could Be True

...They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind,
“Who are you really, wanderer?”--
and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is:
“Maybe I’m a king.”
--William Stafford

Song for Ten

Well I woke up today
And the world seemed a restless place.
It could have been that way for me.
And I wandered around,
And I thought of your face.
That Christmas looking back at me.

Oh, I wish today
was just like every other day
'Cause today has been the best day.
Everything I ever dreamed.

And I started to walk.
Pretty soon I will run.
And I'll come running back to you.
'Cause I followed my star
And that's what you are.
I had a merry time with you.

So have a good life.
Do it for me.
Make me so proud
Like you want me to be.
Wherever you are I'm thinking of you.
Oceans apart, I want you to know.

Well I woke up today
And you're on the other side
Our time will never come again.
But if you can still dream
Close your eyes and you'll see
That you can see me now and then.

-- Murray Gold's "Song for Ten"

Heartbeats

One night of magic rush
The start: a simpel touch
One night to push and scream
And then relief
Ten days of perfect tunes
The colours red and blue
We had a promise made
We were in love

To call for hands of above, to lean on
Wouldn't be good enough for me, no

And you
You knew the hand of a devil
And you
Kept us awake with wolves teeth
Sharing different heartbeats in one night

- "Heartbeats" lyrics by The Knife
Performed by José González

Movable Type 3.2

I've upgraded my CMS to 3.2. It took me a little longer than expected, since I had to backup my existing site (the files on the server as well as the mySQL db), remove any incompatible plug-ins (mt-blacklist), and overwrite many directories on the server. The time was worth it, for the new features in MT 3.2 are great; I especially love the ability for me to see all the entries over multiple weblogs. I need to explore the documentation to see what cool tags and other features were added. I'm unsure if I will have a lot of time over the next week, but this weekend should give me some time to sit down and play with my domains.

Winter Theme

I've had this particular design for eileene.net in place for the past year and a half, however I have neglected to take the time to write or do much with it. My initial design intention was to rotate images and colors per season. My first season was the 'summer' theme (yellow-browns), because I created the design in summer of 2004. That theme has been unchanged until today, when I implemented the 'winter' theme.

I will need to upgrade both MT and Carp, to see the new features that they offer. I am also evaluating exactly what I am to do with this site and how I will balance its content compared to the other sites.

I Believe in a Thing Called Love

Can't explain all the feelings
that you're making me feel.
My heart's in overdrive
and you're behind the steering wheel

Touching you, touching me.
Touching you,
God you're touchin' too.

I believe in a thing called love -
Just listen to the rhythm of my heart.
There's a chance we could make it now.
We'll be rockin' 'til the sun goes down.
I believe in a thing called love.
Ooh!

-- The Darkness
"I Believe in a Thing Called Love"

]]> I wanna kiss you every minute,
Every hour, every day.
You got me in a spin
But everythin' is A.OK!

Touching you,
Touching me
Touching you,
God you're touchin' me.

I believe in a thing called love
Just listen to the rhythm of my heart
There's a chance we could make it now
We'll be rocking 'til the sun goes down
I believe in a thing called love
Ooh!

Love Will Come Through - Travis

If I told you a secret,
you won't tell a soul?
Will you hold it and
keep it alive?
Cause it's burning a hole
And I can't get to sleep
And I can't live alone
in this life.

So look up. Take it away.
Don't look da-da-da-down
the mountain.
If the world isn't turning
Your heart won't return
Anyone, anything, anyhow.

So take me, don't leave me.
Take me, don't leave me.
Baby, love will come through.
It's just waiting for you.

-- Travis
"Love Will Come Through"