Iva’s WTF 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.

As Victoria said here, sometimes it’s really hard to blog when there’s nothing to blog about. But, well, I’m trying. :p

I always end up whining to my friends about how their lives are more dynamic than mine instead of doing something to change it. This week, my friend Laura encouraged me once again, for the second time this year. It has nothing to do with looking up to others, as I lead a specific life, being the only person in my household who works AND studies at the same time; it has something to do with stopping the whining and getting to do something! And that’s exactly what I’ve done.

Sooo…during the week that’s just passed, I worked on two different part-time projects I get paid for, worked on websites of three of my friends (you just saw one of them in the previous paragraph…:p), went to Via del Gusto with mom for some delicious pancakes with cheese, ham and sour cream; as well as considered one of those courses over there at Educon…why? Because they provide their students with certificates valid all over Europe! I think it would be quite handy for increasing the income from part-time design jobs while on university. Oh yesss…and, out of the blue, one of my dearest online friends, whom I’ve known for 2.5 years now; decided to visit me next month. She’s not supersticious about her arrival date being Friday 13th. I haven’t had anyone visit me for more than, like, one day; since my beautiful and intelligent Spanish friend Cristina/Calitoe was here in February 2005. I’m sooo excited about this:)

Regarding the personal sphere of the web design/blogging universe…I’d been out of the loop for months, maybe even more than one whole year, I’ve been surfing around, trying to catch up with people (many of them deleted me from their friends’/reads’ pages, guess they think I’m dead or something), redesigning all my websites apart from the ever-so-popular Invisible Movement, saving my friends’ fanlistings made with malicious out-of-date scripts…in other words, I’ve been busy for the past couple of weeks. An useful advice to everyone: don’t break your routine, don’t procrasinate, it will turn into a bad habit and you’ll end up having way too much catching-up to do. And then, while you’re catching up, people who are used to your updating a fansite by the speed of light will go ballistic and think you’re ill or something. So…it’s almost like a neverending circle. I need Iva #2 to help me finish some things, but that would also require a computer #2, I’m afraid.

This site has been updated as well…surprise, surprise! I stole a survey from Sam (like your layout number 14, btw) and filled it out; also, I’m halfway done with redoing my quizzes and creating an archive of my past layouts. Then I’m off to redesigning some other sites and, one nice day when everything is up to date, I might make my old site themes WP 2.0 compatible. Before any of that, I need to make *this* theme Firefox compatible. I used one of the pre-made themes to see what WP 2.0 has to offer as a template for this layout; thinking it would be all valid…yeah, it IS valid, but in Firefox, it’s a complete mess. I really have to figure out what went wrong.

Either way, all of you who come here and lurk…say something;) It’s nice to know that you’re here. And, well, that makes me want to write more. Many thanks to Milica who said she enjoys reading my blog here.

YEEEEEEAH! We won the European waterpolo championship, right here, in this city, at the pool next to the highschool I went to! We beat the Hungarians with 9:8 (2:4, 4:1, 2:3, 1:0) and the most of the time during the game it was nerve-wrecking. Especially at the moment when it was 8:8 and that lasted so bloody long!

Our boys celebrating in the pool

I took this one from the balcony.

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