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Where Did WWW Go?

Where Did WWW Go?

Published Nov 4, 2010

I installed the Broken Link Checker plug-in today, because I know I broke a lot of links when I moved my Kat Scratch Fever off of ExpressionEngine and onto WordPress, and I wanted to get them all cleaned up.

The first thing I noticed is that wow, I broke more links than I thought. They’ve all been fixed now, rest assured.

The second thing that I noticed is that WWW seems to be disappearing.

I don’t know if it’s just that I’m old skool, and was born into the computer era where URLs were pretty much required to start with “www.” or what, but I always put www before a web address, unless it’s a subdomain. All my domains are formatted so that if you don’t put www before the domain, the server will add it for you. I like the way it looks a ton better.

But as I was sorting through the Redirect tab of my link checker, I found that most of the sites I was linking to are set to remove www from the URL.

So it got me thinking.. why is everybody removing it en mass? Am I missing some vital piece of information? Is it considered redundant now? Is it to conserve print space? Curious minds want to know!

Do you leave the www or do you remove it, and why? I don’t mean when you type it, I mean it on the core level. This can be done as a domain option on some hosts, and in the .htaccess file on others.

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I Feel Like I’ve Been Typing All Day

I Feel Like I’ve Been Typing All Day

Published Nov 3, 2010

Granted, it could be because I pretty much have been.

Like every other weekday, I sat down in front of my computer at 8:00 am and started answering support tickets, which means emailing a lot of people. My days are normally full of typing.

Besides my work emails, there was also a handful of personal emails that I had to reply to. Not to mention the chatting I did, with Yoshi and Rob, among other (blogless) people. We can chat, and that means a whoooole lot of typing.

Somewhere during the day, I wrote a bunch for my NaNoWriMo novel. I’m still on schedule but slowing down already, which doesn’t bode well for the completion of my story. We’ll see. I never win NaNo, but it’s fun to try.

Then… (whew!) I wrote a post on my craft blog about my Glace Icing Cookie Failure. They were delicious cookies, but not the beautiful pieces of art I had wanted them to be. I didn’t mention it in the blog post, but the cookie chefs (Sonia and I) were drinking pirate grog and vodka at the time, which may or may not have had something to do with it.

After I updated that blog, I wrote two future-dated entries for The Natasha Files (a blog that’s written more like a story from the PoV of one of my RP characters), since I’m trying to keep that blog updating on a schedule. I also wrote an entry for Aneta: The Forsaken (a similar thing, but written from another character’s PoV), but it needs more proofing and reorganizing before I post it.

I won’t even go in to the time I spent on Twitter/Facebook/forums and the such. And now, here I am writing this blog post! I may have too many blogs.

I should get paid for this, haha!

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Of Course I’m 21!

Of Course I’m 21!

Published Nov 2, 2010

A lot of people lie about their age. Mostly it comes from women who have passed whatever age it is that makes them feel old (I’ve seen this anywhere from 30-50). They “stopped counting at ____”, which stops being believable after a few short years.

Maybe it’s just because I don’t feel old yet (though, I *was* supposed to die at 25, what’s up Universe?!), but I just don’t get it. What does that accomplish? I’d just feel worse about making people think I’m younger than I am and whatever perceived benefits that has, because darn it, I’m old! Any actual (not social) perks to being younger would just take someone looking at your ID to debunk, then you’re done.

I could see saying I’m old when I have grey hair for the senior discount on my food though hehehe.

But, I’d be lying if I said I never lied about my age. I haven’t lied about my age in quite a few years, though. I used to do it back in that age gap between 18 and 21, when I was old enough to vote, smoke, and go to war, but not old enough to drink (is it just me, or is that ridiculous?).

It’s crazy how far a short skirt, high heels, and a winning smile will get you when “I forgot my ID, but of course I’m 21!”. It worked more often than not.

So tell me, have you lied about your age? Why? Can you shed some light on why other people might do it?

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Hello? Echo… echo… echo…

Published Nov 1, 2010

I was looking at my archives, and I realized that man, my blog posting habits have crashed and burned. I guess, to be fair, I’ve separated my content a little bit by opening a special craft blog over at katili*made and posting some old stories over at Names Changed*, but even if you add those posts, I’ve still been awfully quiet. I’ve gotten boring in my old age and spend a lot of time at home.

But, I do want to get my blog back to at least a fraction of it’s former glory! It’s requiring some back end effort and reorganization.

For starters, I’m in the process of switching the blog over to WordPress. I find that ExpressionEngine is now a bit overkill for this site, and I think I’d rather use it for my portfolio. WordPress is super easy to run a blog out of, and I’m looking forward to the final switch. I’ll let you know when it’s done, it’s still in a sandbox being configured and the such.

Obviously I need to post more. To help kick-start good blogging habits, I’ve decided to participate in NaBloPoMo.. we’ll see if I can post daily AND keep up with my NaNoWriMo novel. I might explode before December!

That’s all for today, but we’ll see what tomorrow brings. I need a nap, I had a busy weekend.

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It’s An Adventure!

Published Jul 21, 2010

My time in England has been awesome.. I’ve loved every minute of it, and I have a decent amount of photos and stories to share when I get back home, but that’s not what this post is about. I expected my time in England to be awesome, but now I’m finding that my time that isn’t really part of my trip to be an adventure in and of itself.. it’s A Life Experience™.

You see, I was supposed to go home yesterday. But, airlines like to overbook flights, and I’m flying standby and am on the bottom of the priority list. London flights, in particular, are crazy oversold.

So right now I’m in the London airport getting ready to fly to Amsterdam, because Delta (the airline I’m flying on my buddy pass) has a direct from there back to PDX. I’ll be in Amsterdam at 6:30ish PM.. my potential flight back to PDX is at 10:00 AM the next day. Did I mention it’s going to be my birthday? Even if I spend most of my day on the plane, I’ll be starting my birthday off in the Netherlands.

While missing out on 3 flights already was a little frustrating, I took a step back to think about it, and really, I’m going to have so many stories to tell, that it’s worth it all!

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