I've been seriously all over the place lately. I've just decided to start doing absolutely everything that comes to mind, y'know, be an impulsive little shit about making stuff like I'm always tempted to do, and here's how that's going. I've got two First Draft posts scheduled to the blog! First Draft was a series I was writing for Letters about early and alternate versions of albums, the first one having dropped back in February on the Dandy Warhols' Come Down predecessor, The Black Album. I Read more
Of course, right as I switch to using a journal engine that can be automatically posted to the group chat through a bot, we start toying with another chat service where our resident chat bot doesn't quite work right... oh well! I was warming up with my own tablet again drawing a Setter last night, and he wound up becoming a site graphic for a page I made before I left, a behind-the-scenes look at how I make cammy.somnol and some of the aesthetic choices for why I've made it the way I have. I'm Read more
I mentioned the other day I was looking at a flat-file, low-overhead PHP blogging platform called HTMLy as a way to automate a bunch of shit for this journal. We're on it, baby. Lemme explain in slightly less hurried, delirious detail why I've chosen to do so. So before now, all journal posts were written as raw HTML directly into Notepad++. No AutoSite, no automation at all, just what I wrote is what you see. That worked fine, but it became a gradually bigger pain in the ass month after month. Read more
Welcome to a weird future! RetroZilla didn't know how to handle the admin panel, but Firefox ESR 52.9.0 on XP can do it just fine. This makes it a fairly viable solution for blogging on XP and Vista, and possibly even 2000. Writing themes, as far as I can tell, is as simple as WordPress; there's a PHP "loop" for post formatting, and I think you can do custom HTML per post type (which there's basically every post type that Tumblr has, which is nostalgic). I suppose this would've been really good Read more
One thing I was mulling over while I was in Wales was alternatives to WordPress for this journal. Typing raw HTML is liberating, but man, it gives me a good excuse to put off updating this thing. "Cameron, you already had the Scratchpad and you gave that up because it was too much work. Why are you going back to blogging software?" Well, pointed question asker, I like to fiddle with shit is why. But really, part of the reason I gave up the Scratchpad was also the reason proper alternatives have Read more
For those of you who have access to the testing version of this site, I've gotten all the old scorekeeping pages back up in the underground section and updated (rewritten the text, added the new scores where relevant). I'll link them here for those folks. (I'm still really fond of that Minesweeper page, that's a classic.) Header images are the holdup for the rest of you. I'll get back to drawing tonight, maybe. Honestly, save for the photo galleries and the little Nobody's Watching tribute (and Read more
Basically spent all day in FireAlpaca, because I want to bring you more pages! Here's the first one for the underground section, comparing the outputs of seven different MP3 encoders and explaining why seven programs that all say they do the same thing come up with completely different results. It's a spergy rabbit hole, but hey, there's cute animal people. Everyone wins. (It's one from the old site, but the text has been completely redone and there's a new song being compared. Give it another Read more
And the aboveground/belowground update is complete. I held out for months because of that aboveground graphic with Bunny and Setter (drawing my girl! scary!), but then I came up with an even cuter and most importantly simpler way to draw it and now I adore it. I've actually got site content for you finally! This is the first section I completed for the site, a look into all of my consoles and tech gadgets as the list grows, and it's been done for, again, months, just sitting and waiting to be Read more
Jesus, stuff got busy! I'm a bit better about updating this journal, but so much is going on that I always come home ready to rest instead of report in on the day's events. It's all been seriously fantastic, though, this spring is shaping up to be the best in a long time. Here's a small recap... Got my KTN! In like, two days tops. Thanks, government, thought that'd take a while.
Flight booked, I'll be gone May 17th to June 7th. I got it for a damn good price, just under $750 including Read more
Let it be known that I am still a fantastic worker. When the truck guys are telling you you killed a delivery, you killed a delivery. I know it's just grocery store work, but it was also three pallets of way too much wine I did all on my own. I carry that fucking department. I set up a WAMP stack on my home server (which consists of a netbook :marf:) to serve up a beta version of cammy.somnol, for my use and to prove to friends I really am working on cool shit for this site. I hesitate to link Read more
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