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Happy Birthday to You by Sessillee Asphodel on October 14th, 2012, 6:31 pm
Today, the fourteenth of October, is my birthday my dear and adoring fans. My fifteenth. I have no idea why, but today I woke up feel refreshed and high on life. I'm not Spanish so I'm not having a large party or anything but, still, I wanted to dance and sing and never stop twirling. The day felt so bright and my outlook on life happier than ever. I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs out the bedroom window that it was my birthday with the same zeal a person would say that they were to wed. It wouldn't be gifts or events that made me happy, but the joy of life and the thankfulness I have to have lived this long. I could walk out the door and be struck by lightning, but today, I felt as if I could run on the rooftops, swing through trees, hop out the window and land on cars.
Today, as a gift, I'll share this feeling with you. Jump for joy and touch the sky. If you can't quite reach, remember that the sky starts at the ground and feel accomplished. Dance and sing for no reason and forget your worries if only for a moment. I love you people and remember to love life, because the second you spite it, you may find yourself not living it anymore.
As I'm twirling away, a large bounce in my steps, remember my words and let your day brighten, if only for a little while.
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Diamond in the Rough (Poem) by Dimitri on April 24th, 2011, 7:57 am
Is there such a thing as loss, or does pain merely change forms? A life filled with everglowing light, darkened by tragedy A major regret, a life lost, myself blaming Me Selfishness, Ignorance, Laziness, my sins three that night An outreached olive branch, snapped, trodden upon, a loss of right. Can she see me now, the self inflicted scar, left by her loss, the healing taking hold?
Can one learn to become a man on their own? Pain on their hearts, weighing heavily, to the city of steel they went. Their only son behind bars regret in his every action, a different direction, his will bent A small shop, reminding them of her hobby, candles, a dark alley looms. A mugging, an addict in need, panic reason, four loud booms. How much scarring can one endure, a rainy funeral, friends in black, prodigal son in orange?
Can a man make amends with the fates throwing himself into the help failed to give? Following her footsteps, he threw himself into his training, trying to forget From relationship to breakup, a number far too large, with himself still upset Cheating lovers, hate filled town, lies anger tears frustration endurance nearing its fin Trying to make up for that long lost regret, how long it had been Would he make something of himself, something they could smile down upon?
Can single gesture save a soul? In a world of blood and pain, he swam in a sea of black, lost, another lost, last left She came from an unexpected source, slicing through the darkness, her help the best A smile forming, a face unrecognized, he had found another, a second chance perhaps She found him beneath the rocky exterior, beneath the mask many came to know, his heart running laps. Could he be redeemed? Now a light in the darkness, had found his diamond soul, and she didn't flinch
-Dimi
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Updatitis by Tarot on July 16th, 2009, 1:16 pm
So, phpBB has been updated to a new version, and they're already working on the next. It's at times like this that it really sucks to have such a heavily modified version running on one's site. Pretty much everything has been fiddled with - from the database schema to styles, visuals, permissions, and tons of other components. Some stuff (portal, help desk) I coded from scratch. One would hope this software had plugins that could be put in a folder and swapped in as needed. Ha ha ha. Naive. To "mod" phpBB means copying new files and manually editing code in others. Compared to products such as vBulletin, this approach is ugly and requires more familiarity with php (it IS called phpBB for a reason!) Of course, the upside is that phpBB is generally faster and slimmer than vBulletin (not to mention FREE! As in FREE BEER!), so I guess it's one of those "no free lunch" scenarios. Still, that means I can't just run their one-click update. Even though they have a smart update feature that's supposed to keep your custom code intact, you can never know what will break when you update, and where, until you stumble upon it. I think, for the time being, I will just manually install security updates and study the new features on a case by case basis. 3.0.5 didn't really add much, 3.0.6 will have Atom RSS feeds (though we could install a mod for that today) and more effective CAPTCHA (but our anti-spambot mod is doing a great job of keeping them away... we haven't had a single spambot since its installation). I guess this is just a part of the bigger problem of running a RPG site. It's got needs that are quite different from those of your average forum community. A help desk, easily accessible lore, quick account switch to let people play different characters, a plethora of bbcodes so players can express themselves artistically in their writing, and so on. If you come from another play-by-post, a lot of the features you may take for granted are not included in... [ Continued ]
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