Ooof!

Okay, now it seems to work more or less – archives are still a mess, though. Will have to work on them, but not now, first I need a break… This is pretty hard stuff for an amateur like me!

If anyone happens to know how I could make the brown block above the site description white, I’d be incredibly grateful – I simply can’t seem to figure out how to do that.

This kind of project is really engrossing – I’m just glad that this week is practically a break (except for tomorrow), thanks to Ascension Day, so I can work here without a bad conscience.



Weekend!

The presentation was a nightmare. Or no, not the presentation, but the setting up – because it turns out the beamer doesn’t like my I-book, so we had to find a way to turn my stuff into a powerpoint presentation, burn it unto CD and then use someone else’s laptop… Took me and a friendly woman almost an hour!

Sometimes having a Mac sucks – but I wouldn’t want to miss my cute white tiny little laptop (sometimes also known as Dom-puter, in honor of my favorite hobbit from the LOTR movies), specially not now that I’ve upped the RAM and switched to OSX and everything is running smoothly. Well, except for compatibility with beamers, apparently. But now it’s weekend – not that it feels like it, what with having to work tomorrow morning and Sunday afternoon.

Still – weekend! Presentation over! I managed to make the archives links appear again! And beautiful weather to top it off… Also, there’s the dance tomorrow night, with dressing up and ballroom dancing (been taking classes) – that’ll be fun, I’m sure. Oh, reminds me, have to call my dance partner.


Randomness blogrelated

I managed to make that AppleWorks presentation – not very fancy, but it’ll do. Now I only need to manage talking freely and more or less scientifically coherent in English tomorrow afternoon… I do hope I won’t mess up!

I’m not quite sure yet what form this will take – if I should write ‘spam’ posts like this whenever I want to, or if I should try and write one longer post a day. Plus, I’ve been surfing some other blogs (check out ‘other people’ to the right for links to some of them) and feel pretty inadequate right now. Plus – who will even read this? On LJ I have my trusted friends list – this here feels much emptier, as if I’m writing into a vacuum.

One of these days I’ll let some of my RL friends know about this site, they might be interested – and once I get my digital camera (presently waiting for me at Marrie’s in Germany, I’ll start posting random pictures of Basel and whatever catches my eye.

I’m also thinking of changing to BloggerPro, so I can add a subject line and a rss feed, so the peeps at LJ can follow this from the comfort of their friends list… I don’t really have the money right now, but I also don’t have any self-control, so we’ll see. 🙂
Right now I’m trying to fix the archive link – but so far it doesn’t look as if it wants to be fixed… So yeah, don’t wonder if there’s nothing after the ‘archive:’, okay?

Enough for today – I’m sure as time goes by and this loses some of its newish feel, I’ll be less random and make more sense. Or maybe not.


Webrings and university

Been joining some blog related webrings and the Pepys Project, also signed up at blogrolling, because that’s much easier than adding every single link by hand. Now, if I find an interesting journal, all I have to do is click a link in my toolbar and it’ll appear in the ‘other people’ section – cool, huh?

Not site related – picked up my ‘Internet and Identity’ paper this morning. The teacher liked it – a good grade, yay! Not that I actually need grades (it’s all pass or fail in my subjects), but still, it’s nice. I’m still disappointed that I wasn’t allowe to write it in English, since most people who filled out my questionnaire won’t be able to read it now. I’ll put it up one of these days, just in case someone who speaks German is interested…

I also picked up a book about structures of everyday life for my field trip – unfortunately the first volume had been stolen, so I had to order it from Berne. Back at home the woman from the travel agency called – Hawaii is a no go if I don’t want to pay quite a bit more, which is a pity. But at least I’m on a cheaper flight now – with Emirates, which is supposed to be a pretty posh airline. I’ll have to spend eight hours at night in Dubai, but supposedly the airport is pretty good for shopping, or I might check into a hotel, if it’s not too expensive.

We’ll see – in any case I’m pretty excited about my four weeks of ‘field trip exercise’ in New Plymouth and my four weeks of traveling in Australia! And now I really need to get working on my presentation for tomorrow – been happily procrastinating the last couple of days, but now I don’t have choice, I have to tackle that strange presentation program that comes with AppleWorks 6… Wish me luck! *g*


Email addies

Email seems to be working, thanks to prompt help – I really like my new host so far. Also I created a new subdomain and changed all my member infos for the cliques/webrings I’ve joined with Lovesong – puh! Soon everything will be ready, I can go to bed and stop spamming this with boring website details… What am I going to talk about once all this excitement has died down? LOL Is anyone interested in having their own @chocolatedream.net email addy? Just let me know your name of choice and your email addy and it’s yours!


Welcome to chocolatedream.net!

It’s working! Yay! Welcome to my brand spanking new domain for everything me and whatever else I can think of… Please, if you see a broken link, let me know so I can fix it. And if you like it, or hate it, or whatever, too. 🙂 It’s possible that email is not working yet, because so far I haven’t received any of my test emails, so you might just want to leave me a comment or drop me a line here. In other news – not only did the appointment about my field trip exercise go very well (she gave me some very good hints and ideas), but I also wen to the travel agency and looked into my flight. It’s the most complicated trip I’ve ever booked: Switzerland – New Zealand – four weeks stay – Brisbane, Australia – three weeks traveling around – Sydney, Australia – Honolulu, Hawaii – one week stay – Switzerland. I really hope this works out, I’d hate to miss out on my stopover in Hawaii. Very excited about all of this! Argh – I seem to have a problem with publishing longer entries. The posting button simply disappears when I scroll down and stays disappeared. I might have to switch to IE in order to post. I don’t like IE. At all.


Testing

The domain does not yet resolve, but I checked with the preliminary url and everything seems to work – yay! (Except for email, but I hope this will change once http://www.chocolatedream.net actually exists…) Have a meeting about my field trip to New Zeland this afternoon – need specifics about what university wants from me, what I have to do in order for my trip to be accepted. Maybe I’ll go down to the travel agency afterwards and ask about flights – it’s not even three months left, after all… Can’t wait! (I bet you’ll be hearing that a lot in the next months… *g*) Edited to add: I keep getting fault alerts from blogger, but then things work anyway – I wonder if it’s because I’m using Mozilla.


Hosted

I’ve gotten hosted – yay! So as soon as chocolatedream.net resolves to the new dns, this will be moved there and linked up with more pages. Will probably have bugs for a couple of days, so I’m not advertising this anywhere – but soon, soon… 🙂 I’m really supposed to work on a presentation for uni (for a Vulnerability seminary), but this is much more fun! LOL


Politics

Pretty frustrated with the Swiss right now. We had a whole lot of voting going on this weekend here in Switzerland, on several pretty important issues – and basically, everything was denied. Most annoying (and impossible to understand from where I come from) were the ‘no’s to the two anti-nuclear energy initiatives. We had this great chance to get out of the whole dirty business and it was totally missed… At least I can say that I voted for what I think is right. Unfortunately about two thirds of the people didn’t agree with me. Really, having a say in things has BIG drawbacks, namely that you can’t go blaming politicians. It’s all the people’s responsibility. Sometimes it would be much less frustrating to live in a ‘normal’ democratic country. *sigh* In other news – I might get hosted soon, yay! Already started making more pages for the new domain… 🙂