syn·co·pe n.
1. Grammar. The shortening of a word by omission of a sound, letter, or syllable from the middle of the word.
2. Pathology. A brief loss of consciousness caused by a temporary deficiency of oxygen in the brain; a swoon, blackout.

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WORD COUNT

47,400 completed / 102,000 total estimated
45.0%

 

I'm in the process of moving to Kyanobenthes.com and have disabled comments on this blog. I don't like that disabling on LJ hides all existing comments, but all entries and comments have been ported over to my new site into Wordpress. I'm still tweaking settings. Any further comments should be left there. Thanks!

This blog will remain largely static as an archive, meaning I'll mostly only crosspost status updates here.


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Castigation #2

Well, Wordpress 2.8 was released, and I've been slowly figuring out how to migrate to an actual domain URL. I have to figure out themes, importing stuff, formatting, and plugin compatibility, and other crazy things I haven't tried before. Great fun. Maybe.

It would be great if I could just convert my current LJ "theme" and plop it in there, but it's never that easy.

Moving to: http://kyanobenthes.com/

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Collection of basic information from Japanese opinion polls/surveys on various topics: http://whatjapanthinks.com/

I figured out my problem with the "lunch" bit in 1.10, so I plan on fixing some things there when I post 1.11.

But 1.11 won't be posted until after Wordpress 2.8 is released. ^_^ I found out that that new version will have a pretty decent Livejournal-importer, so I'd like to move everything onto my own server with a little more control over content and layout. Hopefully the Wordpress installation and LJ importer won't be too buggy.

It's fair to say these last two chapters of Part I are going to be quite long (by my standards).

No job now.

I also know one other friend who was laid off this year, one laid off last year, and a bunch of people whose job searches have been empty since late last year. My priorities are shifting a bit, so that's fair warning that chapter 1.11 probably won't be released this month.

I mean, you wouldn't want me to hurriedly put together some half-assed shet for Haruka-Shizuru conversation, right? Not that Haruka's side takes a particular amount of finesse... Well, maybe her talky bits take a totally different kind of finesse.

[si~~~~~~igh] Economy, please get fixed soon. kthx

LJ may be having problems since they cut a good chunk of their workforce and has difficulty making a profit.

I've bought my own domain and intend to host "Syncope" there among other things, but I'll have to figure out how to mirror and stuff later. Maybe I'll set up Wordpress? We'll see. I don't think I'll be moving completely off LJ anytime soon until the winds clearly point to the business failing or changing hands or something.

2009 is going to be interesting. I mean, 2008 was pretty demn interesting already, but I expect 2009 to take the cake in terms of international attention span for a lot of people. One can only hope, anyway.

I don't have any particular new year resolutions, though. I'd like to say that I'm going to continue consistently with Syncope and finish this year, but I'd rather not jinx it given how Life likes to throw curve balls when one least expects it. ^_^;

Aw, and it seems I have the beginning symptoms of a cold. How unlucky.

Happy end-of-2008 holidays!

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Dear Suzushiro Haruka:

I hate you, Mrs. Malaprop.

With fist-shaking love,
Ky

P.S.: Muse-chan isn't terribly amused either.

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( Avoiding the deus ex machina )