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[kikotei]

::blinks owlishly::

Yeah, this has not been the weekend for me to be online. So huge sorries and hugs for any one who might have been looking for me. Not that I got a life over the weekend or anything. That would be just so out of character.

My brother came home for the holiday weekend and I quickly got pulled into a round of time sucking multiplayer X-Men Legends. Friday alone I played until nearly 2am without noticing how much time had passed. o.O;; And then Saturday we had a set of grandparents over for dinner, which meant we spent the whole day catching up on the cleaning that doesn't get done normally. And then I got sucked back into the game until 1am when I finally crashed out because I had to be at work on Sunday.

I've come to realize that I've spent far too much time away from video games, my hands and wrists hurt something fierce and it's very obvious that I'm struggling with some of the platformer game play (I keep hitting the 'heal' button when I mean to double tap jump so I can fly). But I am having way too much fun playing as Storm and blowing shit up with 'Chain Lightning'.

Now I get to sit at work and play with Dreamweaver to redesign the website for work because it's so unbelievably quiet right now. We've been open for an hour and I've only seen three people (two were just dropping off returns) and had one phone call.

Dreamweaver 8 is freakin' awesome. I found a template for exactly what I want our site to look like. Everything is already coded in, I just have to modify it a little, switch some colors out, ect. Now we'll have a site that looks more professional. While I have gotten compliments on our site from the guy who designed our new building, it just wasn't quite what I was aiming for. And I'm a code dummy. I passed my javascript class by the skin of my teeth. Actually, I'm thinking the teacher passed me so that I would graduate and go away. ^_^;; HTML is about all I can handle with absolute certainty.

I will have to spend more time updating the site, but I'm planning to launch it when we open the new building. And when we do that I will actually have people to help me (I'm currently alone in my department, and when I'm not I'm with the director who certainly isn't going to do my job so I can play with the website), which means more commission money, and in the end a trip to Japan. Yay!

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[madamhydra.livejournal.com]

Lucky you. ::pout:: Because of my hard drive problems, I'm faced with the choice of trying to reverse-engineer my entire website or redesigning the entire thing from scratch. I have all the raw data (pics, files, etc.) but all the templates and components are poof! :(

I'm tempted to redesign using CSS for efficiency, but that'll have to wait. The COI plot bunnies are rioting. ::snerk::

BTW, here's the picture from Kyou Kara Maou episode 55 with powered-up uber-Morgif. And the Maou looked particularly hot in that episode. ::drool::



Enjoy!

[kikotei.livejournal.com]

Hee! What's even better is that I don't have to pay for the program. Although I can't take it home to play with it (unless I put in on the work laptop), I didn't have to shell out the $400 for it.

You may be better off starting from scratch. While you could go back and reverse FTP everything back on your harddrive, sometimes it better just to start fresh.

The new design I'm working on is in CCS. Oh man, the buttons, the mouseovers. ::happy, geeky sigh:: I'd been toying with it for months, but the finer details of the coding were escaping me. It's a two column hover. I've got the two columns, and then a bar over top that I can put department links on, so that you can switch departments without back tracking to the main page.

And answer those COI plot bunnies, poor things are probably feeling abandonned. ::sniffle::

Whee! Super-Morgif! If I hadn't know that the jewel was round and not a cresent shape, I could mistake him for a Sailor Moon-esque villain. ::grins::

[madamhydra.livejournal.com]

BTW, I put together some screencaps and a transcription of the big duel between Cloud and Sephiroth in Advent Children.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/madamhydra/17637.html

Feel free to wallow in the yaoi-ish subtext!

[kikotei.livejournal.com]

mmmmmm, yes. I did see those briefly last night.

My brother brought home is harddrive so I did get to watch AC (he's still looking for Last Order on the school network). The subs were hard to follow as we had plugged the computer into the TV, I really wasn't looking to read all that much. ::grins::

It was really cool. The whole thing played out like a Hong Kong action flick. Reno and Rude cracked me up. The subtext in the fight was so very very obvious. The only thing that I'm still a little fuzzy on is the wolf. I'm not sure if it's a representation of Zack or a respresentation of the confidence and will to survive that Cloud has obviously lost in the beginning of the movie.

[madamhydra.livejournal.com]

I think that the wolf is supposed to be a symbol of Zack. But you know my personal bias. ^_-

Reno and Rude are hilarious. ::snerk::

I found a website that has Before Crisis translations (http://www.freewebs.com/gunshotromance/) so I'm off reading those. Yeah, more plot bunny fodder.

If you're looking for Last Order, you might try www.shinsen-subs.org.