Days of Shades

I posted links to my art yesterday. This morning I actually checked them, it not having occured to me that I'd have to check links that were a direct copy-paste. They were borked. I looked at the code I'd entered. It was not borked. I clicked on the link, looked at the address in the bar. Borked.

So, in the program I'm using for my webpage (Zenphoto), albums and images are generated with an address path including "album & image = image" (only without spaces). Well and dandy. Enter Livejournal.

Livejournal replaces the "& image" part of this with a, er, squiggle. Some kind of special character of which neither I nor my website are aware.

For whatever reason, entering the links as links in Rich Text format sorts it out, but there was a bit of hair-tearing. Anyone know why the "& image" section of the address is so problematic?

I try to make myself avoid the Slate political forums - I really do. They tend to be loud and obnoxious. Every once in awhile they redeem themselves, though, as with the three page long explanation of how all the Obama citizenship conspiracies really do fit together. Seamlessly. With nazgul.

It was long and convoluted, but this is something that American Citizens Must Know! So I'll boil it down for you:

Obama is the love child of Malcolm X, who was born in three different countries thanks to a 30 hour labor and a fast jet. His college was paid for by Al Quaida's charity arm, and he was required by them to spend decades posing as a Christian. Ayers tricked Bush out of the one ring and used the Delorean to remove the WMD and yellowcake from Iraq just prior to the 2003 invasion, and take it and Obama back in time to give Iraqi WMD to the Weather Underground (the yellowcake was nessecary to provide the 1.21 gigawatts needed to bring Obama back to the future). He's now breeding his massive Uruk Hai army, and will use them to subjugate the hobbits, who will be forced to build the Deathstar. When the code word goes out, the Nazgul will pilot the nine black helicopters over the country, striking socialism into the hearts of the brave. With the help of the white witch Michelle, it will always be winter and never Christmas.

But all is not lost! You've forgotten ABOUT ELVIS!

Elvis received a secret FBI commission from Nixon, and has been learning Kung Fu from an ancient and wizened master on an unpronounceable mountain. On January 20th, Elvis will suddenly appear on the national mall, kick ass, and bring patriotism back to America! WHILE SINGING.

Ah, political forums. Once in a great while you almost rise to the level of any given discussion in metaquotes.

MightyGodKing versus his adolescent reading habits.

Now, I adore His Dark Materials and ASOIAF and don't put them the same class as the rest, but they were still funny re-titlings.

And yes, I admit to reading rather a lot of "Mary Sue Gets A Dragon" as an adolescent.

Gonzales and I are poised to take over the internet!

At procesing speeds that would make LuTze pale and Erik's laptop faint dead away, with the extra zip provided by a real honest-to-goodness ethernet cable that doubles the speed I got on wifi, and whole pastures full of ram, I'm ready to fill Gonzales' massive hard-drives with the ENTIRE INTERNET.

I have to make sure the internet doesn't take us over first, so if anyone has used any of the 64 bit firewalls and either liked or hated them, please let me know. I'm downloading a trial of Lavasoft's firewall and avast anti-virus as we speak.

ARRIBA! ARRIBA! ANDALE!


added: Booo lavasoft. You kill the internet. Gonzales shall look elsewhere for his software condom.