tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-22:1181069 Dragoness Eclectic Dragoness Eclectic 2020-05-17T20:33:00Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-22:1181069:138666 2020-05-17T20:33:00Z 2020-05-17T20:33:00Z public 0 Thanks to a gentleman who inquired about a possible update to an 18-year-old weather generator program for D&D, I decided to find it and check on that. That led to realizing I'd never finished repairing my old website from the damage done by my web host's PHP upgrade (namely, all the old pages broke, because they used deprecated/removed functions), <i>including</i> the page with the download for the weather generator. <i>That</i> led to fixing as many broken links and malfunctioning pages as I could and recovering misplaced old sections of the website (I had links all over to old versions of the site, and wanted to move them and reconcile them), and now it's late afternoon, where did the day go?<br /><br />I still haven't unpacked wthrmkr and checked if it still compiles yet. I think I'll do that next.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dragoness_e&ditemid=138666" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-22:1181069:135772 2020-02-23T02:32:34Z 2020-02-23T02:32:34Z public 2 I've cleaned up the main writing page and the DBZ fanfiction section. Mostly; the Raditz Gallery is still at its old location, but it is, at least, accessible with broken navigation links. The really depressing part was cleaning up the DBZ related links page--so many dead fan sites, so many lost stories and artworks! Quite a bit was lost when Yahoo terminated Geocities; not all of it was archived. It looks like <i>Vejitasei Ascendant</i> was archived on oocities.org, at least. If anyone knows where to contact the original author, I'd like to ask her to archive VA on AO3, as it was such an important part of early DBZ fanfiction, and created much of the fanon that's still around today.<br /><br />I also can't believe it's been 20 years since I started reading and writing DBZ fanfiction... and I never did see the end of the Buu saga.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dragoness_e&ditemid=135772" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-22:1181069:135493 2020-02-19T01:19:10Z 2020-02-19T03:43:58Z public 0 My web-hosting service upgraded the version of PHP they were using, and it broke all my ancient PHP scripts. I am now going through and fixing up and updating all the old pages. Slowly. One at a time. Right now, the front page works, as do the DBZ and Transformers fanfic pages. I've noticed I have lots of dead links, and I bet that Geocities-era webring is dead, too. I am also remembering to convert most links to https, as that seems to be the standard on the web now. I also realize that instead of linking to long-dead LiveJournal pages, or ancient imported posts far down in my DW archive, I should link to the AO3 versions of the various short-shorts. And/or provide links from my fanfic entries to the AO3 versions, for people who prefer to comment there or whatever.<br /><br />On the other hand, Wayward's art pages haven't moved, so I can still link the original Duskwing fanart. :-)<br />Also, for a website that started back in the Geocities/Angelfire era, mine is still here, which isn't something you can say about most fansites from that era. Owning your own site does help with longevity, I must admit.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dragoness_e&ditemid=135493" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-22:1181069:106378 2012-06-06T12:51:04Z 2012-06-06T12:51:04Z public 0 I updated the home page of my umbrella site, <a href="http://www.republicofnewhome.org/">The Republic of New Home</a>, to actually point at live pages, instead of the same old dead links it has pointed to since 2002. No guarantees that the pages pointed to are <i>current</i> or anything radical like that, but at least they load instead of giving you a 404 error.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dragoness_e&ditemid=106378" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2011-12-22:1181069:105714 2012-05-22T12:38:28Z 2012-05-22T12:38:28Z public 1 I have a Facebook account under my real name for sharing family interests. Facebook is appallingly nosy; I plan to keep it compartmentalized from my fandom & writing stuff here on Dreamwidth/LJ and on my website, so I'm not posting the name here, and I'm not posting anything about Dragoness Eclectic there. I'm also not posting anything about my current job here or there. I'm also disabling Facebook scripting/trackers when I'm not on Facebook.<br /><br />What am I posting, one might ask? That's where pictures of family members, like the big family reunion picnic last weekend, will go. Stuff like recipes, etc that are of interest to both "worlds" will get reposted here and there. That's where I can connect with my in-laws and play Scrabble or whatever.<br /><br />If you know my real name, I'm the one with the same icon as on this post.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dragoness_e&ditemid=105714" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments