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That's right, Amelie has a job. :D Nothing exciting, just a little bit of temporary work over Christmas to help with present funding. But yeah, I start tomorrow (it would have been today, but I have lectures on Mondays so I can't work then). ARGH TOMORROW. I have no idea what I'll be doing, who I should report to and where... This whole job was organised in a rush on Thursday and I had a very brief induction on Saturday. I'm in at the deep end tomorrow morning at 9am sharp. O_O EEP!
In other news, I met Jem, her partner Karl and Katy yesterday :D Decided at the last minute that while Katy was there admiring their new flat, I might as well go down and see what all the fuss was about (and meet everyone all at once, woo) as well. Dragged the boyfriend with me, since I can't drive and navigate at the same time, and he ended up driving. We then got lost because Jem lives in the middle of nowhere the directions we got off some travel site shoved us down a tiny narrow road that was closed instead of down the much easier (and more open) main road. Heh. Anyway, that was fun. :)
Now I can go back to fretting about jobliness tomorrow. ARGH I START IN 12 HOURS AND 20 MINUTES ARGH
Have you ever Googled your own name? How did you feel about the results?
Yes, of course I have :P Googling my full name brings up stuff about some actress with the same name as me, and googling just "Amelie" brings up 20,000,000 results pertaining to that film. >:( My site used to be on the first page when searching for said term, but now it's on the 4th and continually dropping. Bah.
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...you dream about your script getting its own LiveJournal community. >.<
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In case you haven't noticed, I've tried to make this site more accessible since the revamp last week. I had got everything to AAA/priority 3 standards about a year ago, but I got lazy and started using silly things like "click here" as link text and forgetting my accesskeys.
So, I put the accesskeys back in for this layout. When I went to test them, nothing happened. I know they work, since I was able to use them in IE, but in Firefox and Opera every time I tried the key combinations, a menu would popup, an extension shortcut would get activated, etc. etc. etc. (or in the case of Opera, nothing happened. Eh?) Of course, a solution to this is to do what many others have done and use numbers as accesskeys - but I disagree with doing this. Why? Because it's not symbolic enough (to me, at least), and ... I don't know, I just don't like it. I prefer to use letters if at all possible. Besides, the number thing doesn't solve the shortcut problem - I like to use accesskeys on others' sites because I'm lazy and prefer to use keyboard shortcuts than the mouse, but when I went to press ALT + 0 to go back home (or whatever it was), I was once again presented with some options for an extension. Hmph. Seeing as I never use the keyboard shortcuts for those extensions, I tried disabling them, but apparently that's not possible.
Having said that, the site should conform to priority 3/AAA accessibility levels now. The automatic checker at WebXact doesn't seem to like my previous/next page links though, and tells me they don't make sense out of context... I think they do, but I tried changing them to such things as "View more blog posts" and even more detailed sentences but it didn't like those either. I've manually checked everything else and to me it seems fine, but of course many of the accessibility checkpoints are to do with personal preference and/or opinion. I may think those links make sense out of context (they don't have a context anyway... They're pretty much standalone as it is) but that doesn't mean everyone will.
Just a small layout note: I know about the slow/jerky scrolling - this is caused by the transparent PNG background. I will try and change that, but when I tried a solid background, it didn't really work :\ Likewise, I also know about the fact that this centre column looks odd in high resolution/widescreen monitors, since it is fixed width and the rest of the layout is not. Again, I'll try and fix this when I have a moment.
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I've been working on this all weekend. I have pretty much completely revamped the site - I've got rid of all the old sections and got it ready for being just a blog with some photography. :)
This layout is very buggy in IE6 (there's a surprise) but it should look ok in everything else, including IE7.
Oh yes, and the old themes are gone, because they sucked. You must now have this one or nothing else :P
Let me know if you spot any problems.
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I need to change this layout... It's too square and boring. If I wasn't supposed to be doing an essay right now I'd probably work on something new, but I've been putting this off enough today already :( I also need to revamp this site completely. Several people have commented on the fact that I have no visitor content and generally nothing to keep people here, which I am very much aware of. When I moved to this domain from my old one, I did absolutely no clearing up in terms of content, and still have a lot of the unchanged pages from 2002, when I first opened the old site. That 'girl' thing in the sidebar there *points* hasn't changed in around two years (can you tell?). That whole "Name. Does stuff. Blah. etc." thing was never popular and I look kind of stupid to have gone through with it, heh. I only recently got rid of some popups as well, how embarrassing.
All in all, my site is still stuck in web 1.0 when everyone's moving towards 2.0 :\ I'm rubbish at following trends though... I always do stuff when everyone else gave up on it ages ago. :P
How do you eat your pizza: folded, flat or with a fork and knife?
A bit of all 3 :)
Windows, Mac, Linux - What's your preference and why?
I do like Windows (it's easy to use and I know it by heart), but I also LOVE Mac OS X, even though it's a little hard to navigate. I've never used Linux so I can't comment on that.
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As tempting as the idea is, I refuse to be paid to blog. My site is not a tool for anyone - least of all me - to make money; it serves as a creative outlet for me so that I can show off my super-1337 intarwebz sk1llz1!11 because I'm geeky and I simply must have an internet presence.
Do you see any advertising on this site (other than a couple of links to similar sites, but they are all non-profit and generally agree with me on this standpoint)? No (unless you're reading this on Vox, which has ads to support its free services). There will never be advertising on this site, and especially not spam disguised as a blog entry. I am not going to lie through my teeth and bore all 2 of my visitors to death by talking about how great it is now that my [begin obligatory link] mortgage debts [/end obligatory link] have been cleared by some scammy company or how I really should be [link!1!1] losing weight [/link] by taking some dodgy pill just to get $5 out of it. I could work a real job (*gasp!* Those actually still exist!1!) and get that in under an hour.
Want to lose all your visitors? Go ahead, sell your site. And your soul. To me, you just look greedy and like you can't be bothered to go out and get a real job.
What would the title of your autobiography be?
"If that made any sense, it probably came out wrong."
