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A Lack of Warmth

1. Happy Chinese New Year

and

2. So my space heater died last night and I need a new one.

Yes, I need one. The heater in our apartment has not worked since I’ve lived there and I’m not sure if I know how to make it work. I’m also not sure of how environmentally friendly it is either.

My new plan is to find a thermostatic space heater and somehow frankenstein a solar panel to power it. That’s right, I just used “frankenstein” as a verb, what now?!

Anyone have suggestions on where I can buy a relatively small and not amazingly expensive solar panel? Also a place where I might find information on how to wire it? I’ll need somewhere to store the energy so I’m assuming I’ll have to look into a battery of some sort. I’ll need to connect the panel to the battery, and the battery will have to have a hook up to a female outlet so I can plug in the heater.

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I’m not in San Francisco!

I’m in L.A. and it’s December. I was, however, in S.F. last week for Thanksgiving. For some reason whenever I am up there it gets freakishly hot. I’m just talking about the weather now. AWINK WINK!

Anyway, so it’s a about four weeks until 2008 and even less weeks until Christmas. Have I ever mentioned that this is my favorite time of the year? I know I have actually.

Ok I’m off but only because I can’t think of anything else to say. Which I guess is a good reason to stop writing.

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The Blog Will Rise Again!

Look! My old entries are back! Fantastic! It’s all thanks to Joss and Jeremy! They’re like my human undo buttons. I usually try to not fuck things up but when I do they usually know how to fix it. YAY!

Since I’ve been able to recover my old blog I merged the entries to this one. Unfortunately, now some of them don’t make sense but who cares? Nobody reads this anyway!

That’s all for now. Oh, also wanted to post something Joss sent me:

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What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?

As we all know, everyone makes mistakes, and I have made yet another one having to do with my WordPress blog. Just as well, I need to learn. What did I do exactly?

Well…

I’ve owned both mitziyoung.com and mitziyoung.net for awhile now. I think I’ve owned this domain longer but as to what to do with it I wasn’t quite sure. My Aunt bought this domain for me as a gift either for my birthday or for Christmas one year, or possibly just as a “thinking of you gift” (which she does quite often, and I love her for it). Anyway originally this domain was bought through GoDaddy.com and I had no idea what to do with it so really it was nothing more than a splash page that led to nowhere for a very long time.

Later I got setup with DreamHost (who I love) and bought mitziyoung.net because I wanted to set up a WordPress blog. DreamHost has a one click install function that made it incredibly easy to create a WordPress blog. So I had that for about a year and a half at mitziyoung.net/blog. Initially I had hoped to use the domain to host a portfolio (of work I have yet to do) and a resume and possibly a gallery, which is why I hosted the blog at that URL.

Finally my .com domain expired at GoDaddy and I was able to transfer registration over to DreamHost which was great and after about 6 months, it finally happened. Usually these things don’t take 6 months but there was this aggravating ordeal that happened with GoDaddy which has now led me to say I hate them and will never use them again, but their customer service phone reps are very nice.

So now I have mitziyoung.com and mitziyoung.net, which is cool I guess but I don’t want to maintain a blog at two seperate domains with the same information. So I tried to find a way to possibly merge the two blogs, or transfer all the content from .net to the .com domain. I also thought about just redirecting the .net site to .com and saving myself the trouble.

All these methods required some kind of knowledge of what the hell I was doing, and I have none such knowledge. So, it was kind of inevitable that somewhere down the line I would fuck things up, which is what I did. I tried to redirect mitziyoung.net to mitziyoung.com and since I had given the extension of /blog along with mitziyoung.net for the blog it would redirect to mitziyoung.comblog. YAY! So there is no CTRL+Z on the internets, and I then sort of lost mitziyoung.net/blog. I’m sure there’s a way to restore it, I just don’t know how. I do know that all the information for the blog is still sitting in the database but how I bring it back to life I am not sure.

I could try to figure it out but I’ve been doing that for the past hour and I don’t want to call Joss, possibly wake her up, and make her fix my mistake for me (again). So I’ll just deal with it. Now I have this domain, the blog is on it, I can redirect .net to the .com with no problems.

I’ve just lost a year or so of blog information, which is fine I suppose, since the real blog that has chronicled the last 4 years of my life is somewhere else on the internet entirely. Anyways, now I’ve learned what can’t be done through DreamHost and WordPress and hopefully I won’t make that mistake again.

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Pick a theme, any theme

So now that I’ve finally got this domain up again. I’m faced with the dilemma of choosing an appropriate theme, or maybe just one that I like.

Thanks to WordPress I can just easily click and try on different themes. However, once I finally decide on a look I then have to figure out how to add all the features I want into the theme, which takes a little more thought and knowledge. I’ve only dabbled in webdesign so it’s not like I really know what I’m doing when I copy and paste lines of code. I’ve mostly learned some random things about HTML (who uses HTML anymore?) and color codes from sites like WebMonkey and from trying to pick apart code of sites that I like.

It really makes me want to just give up and go back to themes I already know how to modify. Or go to sleep.