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Online journals

4:38pm CST Thursday 29 March 2001

Laura IMed me today and said that she created an online journal because she was inspired by mine! Just yesterday Hillary said she started a journal because she was inspired by me and Laura!

I checked out their respective journals on livejournal.com (I think) and saw a few interesting aspects to them. The entries have a "mood indicator" and a "current music" tag thing. That appeals to me in a way, yet I don't want to lose my journal's uniqueness (not that keeping a journal is particularly unique) and then I realize, dammit - I'm thinking in terms of being the star of my own little Truman Show here.

If it were my written journal, and I were writing not knowing that anyone might see it, I might just add a mood indicator. However, my mood indicator is mostly included in what I write. More curse words = crappier mood. More happy words = happier mood.

So what items might I enjoy having that livejournal has? Oh - I know.. They have the ability to view the entries all on one page (my current setup does that well enough), OR to view a "calendar" view.

But you know, the calendar view would be pretty tricky to code, and even the calendar view they offer doesn't show titles in the days, but just a number of entries from that day. One thing that I've wanted to add to mine is for the prev and next buttons to span across months. Right now they are stuck in the current month and can't "see" the next or previous month if it exists. All the entries for a month are stored in a single directory, so they would have to calculate what the previous(next) directory name should be and search for the last(first) entry in that directory. Shouldn't be toooo difficult to write.

Work stinks

6:32pm CST Thursday 29 March 2001

You know - By my normal rating, I've had a pretty productive day at work, but as I was leaving, I got this overwhelming feeling of "oh my god that fucking sucked to have been cooped up all day!" This sucks shit!

I said "hola" and "que paso" to the spanish speaking guy on the other side of the fence from our parking lot, but I couldn't really think of anything smart to say past that so I didn't. As soon as I got in my car, all these appropriate spanish phrases came to mind. Dammit. Next time I see him, I'll yack in spanish with him.

I'm chillin' for a bit before I go to Dude's house to help him set up his linux box today.