Monthly Archive for February, 2005

I’m A Micropatron

February 28, 2005 — Uncategorized. Closed

I am a kottke.org micropatronI decided to donate to become a micropatron of Jason Kottke’s blog yesterday. I didn’t give enough to be eligible for one of the prizes, though. I had put a lot of thought in to whether or not I should donate support kottke.org. In the end, I saw why I should donate. I am a regular visitor to his blog. kottke.org is the second site I visit, the first being my Kinja feed. I thought that since I am a regular reader, and Kottke’s quit his job for the sake of not only his blog but also to entertain his visitors, I should donate whatever I can in order to support him.

I think it’s great that Jason is actually quitting his job in order to blog. I’m pretty sure that more people will start. Jason is what they call an entrepreneur, as Megnut mentioned. I don’t think I’ll quit my job in the future, but I do know that I will probably blog, or do whatever people in the future do in order to express their thoughts.

Happiness

February 27, 2005 — Uncategorized. Closed

My mom bought herself a domain and it’s being registered right now, so the site should be up by tomorrow. It’s at hirasboutique.com I registered it with DreamHost and I got it for free since I signed up for hosting. I get up to three domains (of which 1 is free) to host with them. I think I got a pretty good deal at $7.95 a month. Also, I donated to became a miropatron of kottke.org

Identical Birthdates

February 26, 2005 — Uncategorized. Closed

My parents didn’t know that I share the same birthday with Rabindranath Tagore. I found out when I noticed that there individual pages for the days of the year and decided to look on the page for May 6. Tagore is like my mom’s all-time favorite poet. She didn’t know he was born on May 6, since she only knew the date from the Bengali calendar.

Exhaustion

February 26, 2005 — Uncategorized. Closed

I am really hooked on tweaking my mom’s site layout. I’m so hooked, that I am scared that I might not be able to finish my homework! Anyways, I took some screencaps of the pages to show off.

Please tell me if there is anything that seems awkward or should be changed. (I fixed the contact page so the required fields would be bold.) Also, note that I don’t surf the web with a browser open at 800×1000 pixels. That was just to show some of the details.

I had some dummy text put in so I could see how I was going to set everything up. Those products aren’t the actual ones, although there will be similar ones sold. I don’t know whether to put the weblog as part of the homepage yet. Also, if you wanna get that cool background, or another background, go to squidfingers.com/patterns/ Mr. Beckham has really cool ones.

Of Mice and Hunger

February 26, 2005 — Uncategorized. Closed

For the past few days, the mice in my room have been really bugging me. Yes, I have mice in my house. No, they’re not pets, but rather pests. I’m afraid of mice, so I had my mom get rid of a piece of cardboard that seemed to be what the mice were chewing on and scratching, which also made a lot of noise. We saw that the cardboard, which was behind my heater, (the mice like to hide in my closet and behind the heater in my room) had a hole chewed in it and had what seemed like remainders of pest control biscuits on them. We threw it away. I heard lots of squeaks a few minutes later.

I was working on my mom’s site when I saw a mouse walking around the bottom of my closet door. Then, I saw that it was the size of a kiddie mouse. I guess the mice were/are bugging me since a few mice might’ve been born a few days ago. Eww.

Right now, my eyes are dried up, my hands and arms hurt, and I am thinking how I am going to finish the buttload of homework that I put off in order to goof off. Also, I’m getting kinda hungry, since all I had for dinner was a huge bowl of Frosted Flakes. (Yes, I had cereal for dinner.)