things not to do

[egypturnash]

Egypt Urnash (6:26 AM): I just gave up on something TOTALLY GEEK STUPID.
wolfienamedsarah (6:26 AM): Ooh?
Egypt Urnash (6:27 AM): I tried getting Livejournal up and running on my machine.
wolfienamedsarah (6:27 AM): XD
Egypt Urnash (6:27 AM): The tarballs they have of the source are terribly old. And the CVS checkout won't work. So, fuck it.
6:28 AM : After finding a bit of S2 code that did search-and-replace, and making my LJ style auto-replace <br /><br /> with <p> for much more Proper HTML, I had a mad urge to implement Markdown. As S2.
6:28 AM : Then I looked at Markdown's code and decided i don't want to write grep in s2.
6:29 AM : then i remembered that LJ is written entirely in Perl, as is Markdown. Should be simple to integrate! Right?
6:29 AM : <-- fucking insane

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I also added a photo of myself to the bio page of my website and my info page on LJ, because, you know, I'm not afraid of people seeing me any more, and it's kinda fun to see what someone behind the words and images actually looks like, isn't it? I was going to do some silly scaling tricks with it on the LJ page, but LJ strips out embedded style in your bio. Suck.

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Today's Unicode character is #9819, the Black Chess Queen.

♛

Comments

[rubberskunk.livejournal.com]

I think I owe you an apology for surprising you at FC this year... I never knew who it was, but I think it was you.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

The two people who were Not queenofstripes when you came looking for her? Okay, so I was half-naked. So what? I was getting into my costume, which was damn near to naked...

[rubberskunk.livejournal.com]

Actually I was looking for postrodent, who was in fact the only one I really knew of the trio...

It wasn't a big deal, no. I just thought I would apologize if it mattered.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

But instead, all you found in the room was me and dark_aldebaran! I don't recall feeling it was anything that needed apologizing for in the least, really.

[grrrowly.livejournal.com]

Hope this doesn't come across as creepy/stalkerish, but you are just too cute! ^_^

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

It didn't. It's good to hear that, because sometimes I still worry that I look like a guy with a couple of tits tacked on.

[grrrowly.livejournal.com]

Nope. :) If I didn't know anything about you and saw your picture, I wouldn't think twice about your gender.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what the heck that first paragraph is about, and I get a question mark instead of the Black Chess Queen. But fiery Peggy picture = happiness.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I also get a question mark. I wish firefox would display characters I don't have as an empty box instead of a question mark, which is a character someone might actualy ligitimately type.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

The short summary of the first paragraph; Your insecty girlfriend is a total fucking geek.

The long summary of the first paragraph: I tried to get Livejournal up and running on my machine so I could add some features to it, and failed.

I see the Queen because Safari does this thing where, if an exotic character's not in the current font, it'll try to switch in a font that does have it. I'm not sure what the W3C specs say to do; perhaps Safari's breaking the rules by doing this. But it's certainly nice.

<3

[ultraken.livejournal.com]

I can see it in Firefox.

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

D'oh, now I'm at home and I can't see it. And I'm using Firefox too, which I guess means you're just lucky enough to have more completely Unicoded-up fonts.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

My windows desktop can see it, the laptop can't. It's all very confusing. ^^

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Ooo I can see the queen!

...oh but of course I'm browsing LJ on a Mac mini at the Apple store in the Galleria. I'll have to check if I can see it at home later.