Because I needed an update….
So, got behind in a few things again, but staying afloat fairly well. Had to slow down on drawing because it started coming harder, but staying strong at least! Should have a few art updates soonish. The hardest has been catching up on old, promised arts, but I am getting there and HAVE gotten some drawn, which is sooooo friggin’ good!
The most important part, I think, is that I can say I actually drew something for myself! I haven’t done that in a very, very long time. It just feels wonderful! Even if it was nothing special. Even if it wasn’t a dear to my heart character. It just felt wonderful and free!
So, expect some finished stuffs soonish. Yoshi! Anyway, now on to a few links to some awesome stuff while I have the chance.
I came across this in passing and was just amazed by the beauty of the layouts presented in this article. I had been thinking lately of how “generic” most journals were becoming. Mine own being subjected to this fault as well. But I did want the freedom to change things up a bit, do something a little more than the norm. These collected journals are beautiful and stunning and simply inspirational! Magazine style FTW!
Go check them out @ Bringing the Magazine to the Web.
Also from NetTuts+, a wickedly awesome bit of coding that I’ve been waiting YEARS for! A way to make one element have multiple borders. No more needing to use background images for just a simple box section! I’m planning on using this for the comments section here, for starters. Since, apparently, I never coded it for the DiS v.15 layout. Um… oops?
Anyway, you guys have to go check it out! Quick Tip: Multiple Borders with Simple CSS


























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NO oil for the 1st time in 3 mo.! Tent. good news!
It’s about friggin’ time, is all I can say. Even though I continue to sit on pins and needles as I await the end of the testing phase, for the first time in three months I had something to be hopeful towards in regards to the Gulf oil spill. In viewing an article earlier today about the Indian Rupee finally getting it’s own monetary symbol, I clicked to go to the home page and saw their newest article, updated a scant 11 minutes before I’d seen it.
I quickly began searching other news articles and turned on CNN to see, with my own eyes, that the camera trained on the oil spill was, for the first time, void of oil spewing forth.
I almost couldn’t believe it, and of course, sobered as I heard it could be a temporary situation as pressurization tests are underway. Ah, but that’s alright. I don’t think anyone expected such immediately positive results so quickly, especially since it’s an integrity test. What’s important right now is that true, positive progress has been made in containing the situation. I know my nerves will be on end over the next few days as I await the final results of the testing and capping of the spill and I can only hope that it remains continually positive.
Because, quite frankly, we need to be over the containment process and move on to the pressing need to turn more attention to the massive clean up and, eventually, helping more people be able to go back to work.
I know I haven’t written any journals on the issue before today, so it may seem strange with this article coming out of the blue, but just chalk it up to the fact that I suck at writing journals consistently, lol. I and my family have been very affected by the oil spill and I feel no shame in admitting that I cried today just at the thought that the spill had, for the time being at least, stopped.