Iva’s personal site - Squirrelism.net

Well, I managed to fix the layout. The problem was a missing } in the stylesheet, believe it or not. Now I need to figure out why the gravatars aren’t showing and why is the scrobbles plugin showing time that has absolutely nothing to do with my time zone. Slowly getting there, huh? Many thanks to Dhany for pointing some things out:)

So, for the past couple of days I’ve been surfing various websites, looking for interesting WordPress plugins and, I ended up on a bunch of websites owned by those so-called famous girls (read between the lines: those who either used to obsess over mediocre TV series like Buffy, those who staff at generally famous websites, those who bark at anything that moves and those whose sites are oh-so-cute) and I noticed a couple of interesting things:

They all link each other
The most of them have kinda narrow political views
The most of them (kudos to the exceptions) are more into making a cult out of themselves by dedicating way too much time to blogging than creating a site that actually has a purpose.
The list goes on, seriously.

So, basically, I am happy that I let my old domain go. I am happy that I now know which people really visits this place because of me, not because I used to be “popular” and because I had a nice-looking website. It was also very nice to see the amount of people that deleted me from their links list without even asking me what’s up, if I’m OK and why don’t I update (OMGz, i bet its cuz me site iZ naaah l0nger popular and it used 2 p0wn!1!!!). In other words, I am absolutely aware who’s a friend and who’s a poseur.

I am also aware that quality is what matters and that people should stand up only for what they really believe in. I am sick of people who run dozens of fansites. I mean, you can’t possibly like so many people and things so much. Or do you like them just because they’re popular at the moment?

And now I realise that my friend Dona is right: This girl’s website is such a breath of fresh air in this polluted cyberspace. I’ve always loved reading it, ever since the time I was her worker bee in the QBee. Originality seems to be very underrated these days. It’s all about being a part of a flock, another brick in the wall. Well, I don’t do those things, sorry.

So, people should get real: they’re not gods for having a famous and well-designed personal site or blog. There’s much more that counts. It’s just that almost everyone is bad with math these days.