displacement
Jun. 8th, 2003 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livWell, I've just spent the entire evening fussing with my webpage. It's still far from perfect, but it's somewhat less boring, at least. And I'm also frustrated because I absolutely can't get my livejournal to match it any more; in particular I can't make it display a background image despite either following the faq intstructions carefully or stealing other people's code. Grr.
Anyway, while I'm on the displacement thing, there's a meme doing the rounds where people get their friends to interview them. I like this idea; it's rather related to the concept I was trying to formulate a while ago of a "nomic-style" version of the standard email quizzes. So anyway, if anyone wants to interview me, go ahead. I'll answer any question that applies to me alone; I promise to dodge only if the answer concerns another person who might not want me to tell the whole truth for any reason. Up to and including random strangers.
If you want me to interview you, I can have a go. But making up questions is a lot harder than answering them. And if I don't know you very well you might get generic, rather than specific questions, which sort of defeats the object a bit, but anyway.
Edit 9.6.03: I've realized that the name of the group I was listening too is *The* Burning Bush, not just Burning Bush. So I've changed it because I'm pedantic like that, but also because as it was before it sounded too much like an off-colour political statement.
Anyway, while I'm on the displacement thing, there's a meme doing the rounds where people get their friends to interview them. I like this idea; it's rather related to the concept I was trying to formulate a while ago of a "nomic-style" version of the standard email quizzes. So anyway, if anyone wants to interview me, go ahead. I'll answer any question that applies to me alone; I promise to dodge only if the answer concerns another person who might not want me to tell the whole truth for any reason. Up to and including random strangers.
If you want me to interview you, I can have a go. But making up questions is a lot harder than answering them. And if I don't know you very well you might get generic, rather than specific questions, which sort of defeats the object a bit, but anyway.
Edit 9.6.03: I've realized that the name of the group I was listening too is *The* Burning Bush, not just Burning Bush. So I've changed it because I'm pedantic like that, but also because as it was before it sounded too much like an off-colour political statement.
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Date: 2003-06-12 12:23 am (UTC)OK, now you've inspired me to want to do something much nicer with my webpage, except I'm feeling lacking in creativity. And I'm sitting here making the excuse to myself that I couldn't really do any nice graphics because I haven't got a graphics editor here. (Well, at least there's Paint. Which is something, I suppose.)
As for making your journal match, I'm pretty sure I've seen journals that have styles vaguely similar to that, so if they weren't paid accounts and I see one, I'll let you know.
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Why thankyou! I was on the point of abandoning the concept altogether, cos Cath absolutely slated it last night. This has encouraged me to work on improving the effect, rather than scrapping it and starting again.
a link to something or other, maybe?
I'm happy to link to you (especially since I am having a fit of being excited about hypertext, so more links=better in my opinion). Would you rather I linked to your webpage or your lj? I'm inclined towards the latter, especially since I'm using your u/n in posts about you.
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Date: 2003-06-12 02:25 am (UTC)Umm, yeah, lj probably good, especially as it links to my webpage but not vice versa. (You may have noticed that I suddenly got excited about hypertext too, from my post last night. If you've read it yet.)
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Date: 2003-06-12 03:43 am (UTC)A
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Date: 2003-06-13 04:35 pm (UTC)That said, I seem to be in a minority about the page- but I can see why others like it.
Francis (a.k.a Cath)
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Date: 2003-06-14 11:26 am (UTC)And please don't think I took any of your negative comments personally; I did indeed ask for criticism, and I did appreciate yours. I've also incorporated quite a lot of your suggestions, in as far as you were attacking the execution rather than the concept.
In case people in general don't realize this, if I post asking for criticism, I am not in fact fishing for compliments! Much as compliments are nice.