06.28.02
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Oh my GOD is this sweet!! Please direct your attention to the URL address in your browser and note the sweet-ass Hair Flap icon that graces you whenever you visit my humble, digtal abode. It doesn't work in all browsers (such as my preferred OmniWeb), but it does work in most. If you can't see it, it should look like this. | ||
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Some of you may be wondering what that thing is right about now, so I'll clue you in. It's the first kanji in my town, 'Fukuma' which is written as so: | ||||
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It basically means 'Gate to Happiness' or 'Gate of Happiness' or 'El Gato de Happy-Happy.' I'm happily ignoring the fact that that last one means 'happy happy cat.' I'm just too exhausted to care right now. Not all posts will be as mundane as this for those who are wondering if this kind of lameness is part and parcel of the new format. I'm suffering from lack of sleep and WAY too much exposure to little-bastard-elementary school kids to write anything else. I'm off to collapse on my couch until my hunger wakes me up. L8r. | ||
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06.24.02 | ||
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Welcome to Hair Flap 3.0!! I'm not sure it was worth the wait, nothing too special or elaborate, but several orders of magnitude better that it was. So what's new you ask? Let's run through the list. -As I elaborate in the new 'About' page, I've broadened my horizons a bit regarding the content. In the interest of making the site a little more personal and a little less journalistic, from now on I'll be writing about whatever I need to get off my chest when I sit myself down in front of the keyboard. Some people will hate this, because they only come here to read about Japan and couldn't care less about me. Other people will like it because this means that the number of updates will be increasing to a couple times a week since I don't have to concentrate on a big topic and try and make it relevant and all that bollocks. What that basically means to you, is that you can probably look forward to two or three updates a week since I'll just write about what-the-hell ever. The way we'll work it is that I'll just keep adding entries to the home page until Sunday, then throw that into the archive and start a new page for the new week. Coo'? -Since common, and sometimes insignificant, updates will now be the norm, I'm wondering if I should keep up the email notification list. For the people who were signed up for it on the old site, do you really want to get two or three emails a week from me telling you something new is rearing it's ugly head at Hair Flap? Lemme know what the dilly is by clicking here and casting yo' vote. -In keeping with the new, more personal direction, I've decided to stop censoring myself. I imagine very few 10 year olds are reading this anyway, so I figure that if I feel the need for a 'colorful metaphor' than by-golly, there's gonna be a 'colorful metaphor' on this here page, deal with it. Just wanted to warn you in advance. I imagine most, if any, complaints about this will come from my Mom. Sorry in advance, Ma. ^_- Let's see, what else is new around here? -The 'Who Am I?' page is now the 'About' page, and it's been completely redone. Check it out. -I hate, hate, HATE the Engrish page in it's present form. I hate the banner, I hate the picture layout, I hate.... uh, I dunno...the way it talks about me behind my back when we go to parties. I hate it with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. You can expect this monstrosity to be redone in the near future. That being said, one cool new feature about Engrish that I do like, is Engrish Lite. Since many people just like to check the new entries from week to week, I figure there's no reason to make you load the entire Engrish Archive, wasting reams of innocent bandwidth just to see two lousy pictures. With this in mind, I have concocted a popup feature for the new entries which will only show the most recent postings. This will be included as a text-based link on the main page, while clicking the button in the navbar on the left will redirect you to the entire archive (which will also include the newest postings). Cool, eh? -The Miscellaneous page is up, but there's no content in any of the categories yet (music, book reviews, desktops). Content exists, I just don't have it ready to go yet. I hope to have that stuff up by next week. -I've expanded the entry descriptions in the Archive, which should make it easier to find specific entries you may be looking for. This is relevant to everyone except Dan who will still refuse to search for anything and will simply email me and ask for a link to whatever it is he might be looking for (Look Dan, I mentioned you on the site!!). Of course, some things are still in flux as I iron the last of the rough edges out (such as that afore-mentioned and damnable Engrish page, grrrrrrrrrr). So since I'm going to be changing some things anyway, now is your time to put your voice to work and have it heard. I'd love to hear any and all feedback you have about the new look. I already know that some things look a little weird if you have your monitor set to anything above 1024x768, I'm workin' on it. Come to think of it, let's do another poll on it. Click here to let me know what you have your resolution set to, just so I know how much I should actually worry about it. Tech feedback is also a good thing; I've tested in all major browsers for Mac, with much success, but have only done passing tests with Windoze because.... well, I just can't be bothered to use the damn thing. So if you have a minute, let me know how it looks in your browser regardless of what you're using. Better yet, if you know how, take a snapshot of your desktop with Hair Flap in your browser and email it to me so I can see how it looks firsthand. That about wraps it up for the premiere of FHF 3.0. I'm going to take it easy for now and let everyone play around with the new layout. I'll throw up another update sometime before the end of the week. The last thing I'll leave you with is the bit of fun I had last week when I got this random email from some idiot I don't even know who probably used an email tracking spyder to nab my address off a forum post somewhere. Anyway, on Thursday during lunch, I plug my cel phone into my computer to check my mail and get the following: | ||
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This person is obviously a flaming imbecile, and since I had an excess of free time and a lack of motivation to do anything constructive, I considered it my civic duty to craft this carefully-measured reply, which I submit for your entertainment and approval. | ||
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Yes, boys and girls, methinks I had some pent up sarcasm waiting to get out. Sadly I haven't received a reply yet. I was looking forward to never leaving this guy alone again. You'll notice that I made sure his email address, us_antihacker@hotmail.com, is plainly visible in the window above. Please feel free to send him some hate mail or sign him up for some porn mailing lists or something. Of course, you might want to do so from an email account you don't care about.
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