Fiona McCann
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Websites as Graphs
One evening when I was looking around the net, I found this site which invited you to become part of a 'SocialtextWorkspace', and more specifically, the LoicLeMeur Wiki Workspace, so obviously I had to join because I didn't know what it was exactly, but it sounded cool. Well, it is cool. It's a wiki where members can add bits of information concerning the topic, which is the Blogosphere. It has a French AND English version, or I wouldn't be able to understand a word, and truthfully there are so many aspects to it that I don't pretend to be all that knowledgeable, but what I really like is that there are statistics about European blogging communities and links to the sites they use for blogging in each country. I have found some really interesting things by following the links. Yesterday I went to u-g-h.com because I liked the name. From there, I learned of my ultimate destination, which was aharef.info the owner of which has invented an application which graphs your site colourfully according to its HTML makeup. It's really quite awesome! I did 2 graphs--one of this site and one of >>fuise<<. Then I took a screen shot of each graph, cropped it and made them smaller for posting here. (Fiona32 is on the left) Click on each thumbnail to view the enlarged version. Click >>here for the complete explanation of all the colours and shapes and the link for you to graph your own site. Enjoy! |
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2.6.06 04:27 |
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Mr A is rearrested
BN.ie 02/06/2006 - 19:14:16 The 41-year-old paedophile who had been released from jail after his detention for raping a 12-year old girl was deemed unlawful was rearrested today, less than two hours after the Supreme Court ordered he be returned to prison. After three days of freedom, the man was arrested by gardaí. Officers would not say where he was being held. A garda spokesman said: “Following the decision of the Supreme Court today, June 2, 2006, gardaí have arrested the man identified as Mr A and he is being returned to prison in Dublin.” It is believed he will be returned to Dublin’s Arbour Hill prison where he was serving his jail term before his release on Tuesday. Mr A has already served 18-months of his three year sentence for unlawful carnal knowledge of the girl. Minister fo Justice Michael McDowell said he believed today’s Supreme Court decision would mean that most convicted sex offenders would now remain in prison. “I’m confident that the great majority of the people who stood to benefit will not be released and will serve their full sentences,” he said. The minister earlier announced the Supreme Court verdict to Senators during the Seanad debate on the Bill to close the legal loophole which led to the sex offenders release and the chamber applauded. |
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2.6.06 21:04 |
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THE BITCH IS BACK
...and she was going to whinge away over here, but as I already have the reputation of being a big complainer, I will try very hard to reserve judgement until I have had more time to kick the tyres and go for a test drive. Until the bugs are worked out and I get the hang of things, however, anyone interested can come over and visit me at my other gaff, as I've mentioned before. It's very orderly and calm over there and you are most welcome. I'm sure I'll be around here as well, sooner or later.  Visit >>fuise<< |
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4.6.06 22:18 |
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Are we having fun yet?
How is everyone doing? I myself am getting used to looking a bit anaemic here, but oh well. At least I got my title to be green. As one grows older, one must content oneself with simple victories. I put all my various reading links onto a blogroll, which can be accessed by clicking on the 'Blogroll of favourites' link. I'm still working on it, however. I did notice that some people seemed to take right off flying with the new set up. They had background images and all kinds of things. I always like to cover my lack of ability in splashy layouts by saying that I prefer quick-loading templates. Yes, quick-loading. Sounds good, doesn't it? Don't know about your profiles, but mine went out the window. I don't know how many times I can keep making all these details up! If I had one thing to complain about, I would just like to mention that I feel the particular placement of the Google ads SUCKS. Every time you click on your address, the ads hit you right in the face. Before, they were above your header. Now they are below it and right in the middle. We have no control over the things they advertise, and at any rate, the placement is just yucky. Mine today were talking about 'living wills'. Is Google trying to tell me something? |
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5.6.06 19:21 |
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I've had it!
Tried all day to get this thing to look decent. The best I had was using a template amillionpieces made, but it would NOT frigging show in my K-Meleon browser--all I saw was background colour. Looked okay everywhere else. I have never ever seen a site that tortures its clients like 20six does. It is unbelievable. I am about to copy off my posts about my little Ouí and send this thing to hell in a handbasket. I don't need the grief.
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6.6.06 00:42 |
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at long last love...
Well, middle of the night. Still mucking about with this template. I am a woman obsessed damnit! But at least now I think I have something I can live with. I went to the layout dealer and typed the word 'green' in the search box. This template came up, and I chose it because it was the best loading and the simplest. Some of those wallpaper layouts took yonks to load. You guys on broadband don't care about stuff like that, but I have dial-up at home, so I know how frustrating it is to have to wait 3-5 minutes for a template to load fully. Anyway, then it asks you to type in your url if you want to use it. Then it shows you all the code for the whole page. You copy and paste, go back to 20six and click on 'expert' under the layout stuff. Then you paste the whole thing into the big box. You take a good look at it and change the things to match YOUR site. For example, this template came from a German site, so I put 20six instead. I enlarged the size of some of the fonts from 1 to 2. I went to the header maker and put the size and kind of font and the color I wanted and pasted the header image code there and put it all under the parts that says head. I had to delete the Place_Name tag or I would have had fiona32 next to Fiona McCann, cuz that is the name I typed into the font tag. As I type this, I am thinking this is like waaay too much HTML for a lot of people, and it is really the simplest there is. I can't do the more complex stuff. But those pre-made templates with the colours you see when you first log-in to 20six never let me use them again. I would click on them, but they never showed up. I also will never make a post on the web face again either because I had one earlier today, but then it timed me out and got rid of it after I logged in again. I would tell everyone to always make your post on notepad or Word, as Al does (if you like Word--I think it's possessed!). I use Semagic. If anyone wants any help, and I can help them, just ask. I'm certainly not very expert, but I do have one advantage and that is that I'm in front of the PC a lot. :p Cheers, Fiona |
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6.6.06 03:39 |
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Woo hoo! This girl knows how to rant!
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, now I don't have to rant about the new 20six because someone else has done it for me--and so well! And, SLYTHERIN HEAD GIRL, thanks so much for pointing the way to all those cool sparkly letters! Here I have been trying to behave myself because I know that if I get angry, people don't come running to hold my hand--they feel more like putting a contract out on me, but click on the above link to read a true rant from someone who has suffered a loss through this 'migration' thing. I think she feels like a lot of us. And please, all of you who are satisfied with everything now, don't write and tell me to fix my attitude. You should have seen my attitude yesterday! It's beautiful now in comparison. :p In additon, I would just like to add that now I cannot even post using my K-Meleon browser as when I use the raw HTML box and hit update, it does not arrive in the edit box. There is nothing, nada, emptiness, whiteness...
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6.6.06 21:15 |
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LOST and FOUND: Search for your old site entries
I'm kinda excited about this because cj commented and said she lost her entire blog when 20six changed software and was feeling bad about it. I also know other people are missing things. I can't help you with the photos, but I have made a Google domain search for 20six.co.uk, and if you type your username or some keywords pertaining to your old site, Google will return a list of links to your old CACHED pages. It's a real nostalgia trip! I typed cj into the box and got 10 pages of links. Be sure to click on the CACHED entry links. I'm sorry I couldn't just make it here on this site. I tried many different ways, but the system wouldn't accept it. I had to put it on a webpage from another site I have just experimented with. Just click on this link and it will take you to the: |
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7.6.06 02:56 |
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Say hello; Wave good-bye
Alritey, I am, for the most part, leaving now. I can't spare the time it takes to work around all the problems here just so I can blog. Blogging should be fun and spontaneous, not slow, tedious and frustrating. I can no longer use my browser of choice to post. I cannot stay logged in. I can't put things onto a simple webpage whereas I can anywhere else. I cannot even save my personal data such as my name and birthday or gender. I cannot put a pic on my 'About' page. Personally, I feel like a software guinea pig. The editing box is a nightmare. It's the same at work or at home. There is no search. I had to make one. I know I am not the only unhappy camper. I really don't understand why 20six--whoever 20six really is--took a basically sound system with a few problems and decided to switch it over to something that obviously has many shortcomings and glaring deficiencies. Why? There are lots of open source systems with proven track records that could have been used anyway. I was willing to stay and try to make things work until I could no longer post or edit with my K-Meleon. I will not let a blog dictate to me what I use on the net. All this sadness I have seen from people who think just because we choose to make our net homes elsewhere, we will lose each other is totally erroneous. The net is a large space but very well-connected. If you want to keep track of people, learn about feed readers such as Bloglines, and put the links of all your favourites into it. It will tell you every time the sites are updated and give you the link to read the posts. There is no need to conglomerate all in one place. To each his own. Some people are happy here. Some people will stay here just for the challenge. Some people think other places offer more advantages. Me, I am going. I am not quite sure where I will settle. As I have mentioned before, you can always reach me at >>fuise<<, and I may stick around the new blogs.ie site I made >>here. I may make a new site. I really prefer LJ except for the layouts and a few other restrictions. I can use Semagic and find any post I ever made in a minute and edit just as quickly. You cannot beat it. I do not mean to sound ungrateful. If the problems here were fixed and we had at least what we used to have with the old software, I would come back--and I also know it doesn't matter a fig whether I leave or stay. People have more important things to think about. It's just a personal thing. I wanted it to work, but it isn't working. I will miss the comments and camaraderie. I wish you all the best. I am leaving the site up because there are posts on it about my wee Oui, whom I still miss, and because I don't believe in burning my bridges. Don't forget to take a look at the search post after this one. That's my farewell gift to you. Cheers, |
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7.6.06 05:18 |
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Well, I'm here again
Well ffs! It's letting me use my K-Meleon-- my beloved lizard. I wonder why. Maybe it was all a ruse to get me to leave. Well, too bad! It's all moirob's fault. I keep slipping back over here to read his blog, and look at those cool pics he puts up that flip flop back and forth and lust after all those many comments he gets. I wish I knew how to do that--flip flop pics and get comments. I feel a bit stupid being here again, but no matter. I've felt stupid before. I can handle stupid. Do it quite frequently, actually. Anyway, I'll probably do all this grovelling and then hit 'blog!' and it will just say f*** you to me and thumb its little blog nose. We shall see. |
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7.6.06 21:01 |
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Search 20six
This entry is predominately for people who want or need to look up old entries from the other 20six before the Great Migration. If you type in your search term and click on Google's resulting CACHED pages, you can see the old posts. I will put a link to this post on the list to the right. I see other templates have this built in. I would expect that in time, Google will index all our sites and come up with current links. |
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8.6.06 01:51 |
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ANIMAL TORTURE SITE
Speaking of Google--on a simple little image search this morning, I stumbled over an old site I thought had been yanked from the net, but there it was, prominantly displayed in Google as just a regular site to visit. I was horrified. If anyone knows the addresses of net entities to write to to pressurise Google to take this site off its index and also some places to turn this site into, I would appreciate some feedback. I know some, but I would like to start a campaign to get this guy off the net. I am not going through this site again to get the details because I cannot somache it. The guy who puts this stuff on the net needs to have done to him what he depicts being done to baby animals. I am not giving the URL out in public. Some of you who have been around the net for awhile may already know what I am talking about, and I would appreciate it if you would also not print the URL in any comment. I don't want to give this fiend any play, and I also do not want some unsuspecting person to have to see this stuff like I did the first time. |
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8.6.06 12:54 |
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vision
 Yesterday afternoon at the bus stop, I was sitting on the grass behind the bench, trying to stay in the shade and catch some of the breeze, when I saw a man with a long cane swinging from side to side in front of him come walking up the street. He slowed uncertainly beside another waiting woman, and I heard her tell him which street he was on and which buses came by there. Then she had to warn him about the iron post in front of him as he almost moved head on into it. This sight nearly made me weep for the reason that here was a young man in the heat, not even sure what street he was on and unable to see to steer clear of obstacles that would hurt him. I thought of the young student I had a couple years ago who trained seeing eye dogs, and I wondered why this man did not have one, but I know that many blind people do not. Then I thought of myself and how I would wish for a dog if I were blind because you would feel so alone if you couldn't see and had to make your way through the city unaided. The old internal chant played in my head of how cruel God is to afflict his people with so many tragedies and sorrows and burdens. It never ends. I watched this man all the way to my stop. He sat in the seat with his eyes closed. I thought of how he would be unable to read unless he knew Braille and how he would probably not use a computer--at least not in the usual way. He was so young, and I wondered if he had always been blind. Maybe he was quite used to his condition, but it didn't look like it. It just made me sad. |
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9.6.06 04:58 |
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get your act together
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10.6.06 07:44 |
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'Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth'|
Wrong targets
Several interesting stories in the news today. First, there was >>this about the poor firefighter with the serious facial injuries received when he was performing his duties and got hit by a missle thrown by some nob. This happens all the time where I live. The firefighters and paramedics will rush out to some place to save someones life and instead of people being grateful, they get together and attack the lifesavers and do them and their vehicles damage. Does this make any sense to you? I myself have had my life saved by firefighters and paramedics, and I will always be eternally grateful to them. Being from the North, I can understand the antipathy to the peelers, but in no way should this be extended to those who brave all kinds of dangerous situations in order to save lives. Would YOU like to go into a burning building and try to find someone in the heat and thick, choking smoke to drag them to safety? It's a dangerous, traumatic job and how people can attack those who do it exceeds my ability to understand. Everyday these men and women are out on the streets facing horrible situations just to save lives. When I read about them being attacked, I am totally disgusted and pissed off. Then there were all the stories about the >>Christian Brothers closing up shop in Ireland. All the stories have two things in common. They are quick to point out that the Brothers offered a superior education to those who might otherwise have never been able to get one, but more importantly to me they illustrate what bloody sadistic bastards many, many of the Brothers were in their treatment of the children. I didn't need the news articles to tell me this. I've mates who can attest to this in reality. So all I have to say to the Brothers is: good riddance, and about fecking time.
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10.6.06 20:46 |
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