10 July 2006 @ 08:48 am
*grumble*  
So that's why they were so cheap... Maxell blank CDs were reduced yesterday in Tescos. I bought 'em to copy the Doctor Who audiobooks onto so I can listen in the car. They're fine, up until about track 12 or 13 and then they just skip about like a vinyl record in an earthquake. Grrr.

So I'm currently not listening to the Resurrection Casket, and instead am suddenly remembering that today is the day when I am the only supervisor in the main office. Out of six of us, there's just me. This is going to be fun. Especially since I have bugger all to do and was planning on maybe reshelving the microfilms out on the main floor. Can't really do that if there's no other supervisors in here. Fun.

Anyways... I am still a little conflicted over some things that are going on in my life right now, and which resulted in me prowling the house on Friday looking for something to break (and having the door nearly break my leg when I kicked it). My knee is still painful, but that's my own fault and was exacerbated by the run yesterday morning. Which started as a run but kinda became a hobbling jog towards the end. I made it though - 10K. Next year? No kicking doors and no drinking and forgetting to eat the day before... :) So one of two things will probably happen over the next week or so - either I'll stop posting non-fandom stuff (which I kinda did over the weekend except for the fact I got a little drunk and my computer was on...) in which case please don't worry about me, I am going to be fine I just need to work out some of the broken toys in my head - or I'll post more than ever and tell you all the intricate details on my current psychoses whether you want to know or not. It seems every time I try to take a step back I end up posting more than ever so... we'll see.

I am also having problems with my webhost, another virus found its way onto my webspace - as I think I've mentioned in the past I have the efiction script loaded into a non-public subdomain on the site so that I can rescue as much of INAP as possible, and it seems the hackers have found it and hacked it. However, what they did was hack into my webspace and plant the virus in my graphics site - the webhosts have removed the virus so it's all secure, but they've also denied me permission to the graphics subdomain so I can't fix it. I'm having 'discussions' with them about that and it'll probably be okay by tonight, but it's meant that every single site I run is again under threat. I was on the verge of saying screw it and opening up the efiction archive again to restore INAP but this definitely means it will not be back in the same form it was. It will be back though - as will all the sites - but at the moment everything's in limbo. Including WKA, although nominations can still be made at the LJ comm [livejournal.com profile] wka_nominations

Okay then... so that's the state of me right now, alone in an office with the sites falling down around my ears and not able to do much about it right now. Not as dire as that actually sounds because at least I can start again. :)

(Oh, and when I post the Lost/DW crossover ficlet (part of the Close Encounters of the Tenth Kind) - I had the idea before listening to the start of Resurrection Casket, honest! The book just confirms that it would have the effect I need it to have to get the ficlet to work - being vague for people who haven't yet seen the end of S2 Lost or read/heard Resurrection Casket.)
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Current Location: Fifth circle of hell
Current Music: nothing. :(
Current Mood: okay (really, I am okay)
 
 
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[identity profile] emeraldswan.livejournal.com on July 10th, 2006 01:57 pm (UTC)
First, {{hugs}}. You do what you need to do for you. Be it talking nothing but fandom for as long as it takes, or hashing out everything in hopes of making yourself understand (both things I've done...). You have my unconditional support no matter what.

Second. It bugs me to no end that your sites are this much trouble for you. They're supposed to be fun, and it seems that you get nothing but grief from them. Is it having INAP efiction that makes things so vulnerable?
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on July 11th, 2006 07:51 am (UTC)
{{hugs tight}} Thank you. I've been meaning to reply to that email you sent by the way, I would love to do something along those lines (she said, being vague) - I'll email you tonight about it.

I have an inbuilt mistrust of code I didn't write myself and since the eFiction code is the only example of that on the site*, and has known security issues anyway, it does seem to be the most logical place it's coming from. Add to that the fact that the virii are usually located somewhere within the INAP (or actually Effects... was a handy target as well) folders it does seem that it's the cause.

What I think I'm going to do is recode everything from scratch, remove all the existing files from the site and upload the newly coded ones. It'll mean I can catch any broken links/images etc and I can change the passwords for the server etc. Basically starting from scratch. Hopefully it'll work!

* the WKA nominations and voting forms were written by [livejournal.com profile] engelsteorra but I was sitting right there as she wrote it and I've tweaked them myself later on.
[identity profile] draconin.livejournal.com on July 10th, 2006 02:32 pm (UTC)
::virtual hugs::
My selfish inner baby is saying "NO!NO! I want INAP back!" but there are times when you have to think of yourself and just do whatever you need to.

If that means taking a step back, reducing your workload for a while, then do so. Perhaps what you need to do is make a list of all the things you're doing and decide which ones make you happy and which not. Put a hold on the ones in the "not" category. Sometimes it can be surprising which things turn out to be on the "happy" side when you actually sit down and think about them.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on July 11th, 2006 07:56 am (UTC)
{{hugs back}}

I have an unexpected long weekend coming up this week (Glasgow Fair Weekend, because I don't actually live in Glasgow I always forget when it is - but since I work here I get to take advantage of the two days off work...) and I'm going to do a lot of work on the existing sites. Hopefully I will have at least some part of INAP back, even if it's just in archive form, really soon.

What you suggested about a list makes a lot of sense, coding used to be fun for me, it's proabably the linguistic geek in me but translating all those unintelligable pieces of gibberish into a working (and dynamic) web page? Gave me such a rush - now it's all about repairs and patches and trying not to plug the gaps. That's not fun any more.
[identity profile] velvetwhip.livejournal.com on July 10th, 2006 02:43 pm (UTC)
Oh, honey! Why are the hackers doing this to you? Oh my stars!

And I am really sorry that things are not going well for you personally, either!

:::hugs you:::

You're in my thoughts and I really hope that there's some light at the end of this tunnel very, very, VERY soon!!!!


Gabrielle
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on July 11th, 2006 07:57 am (UTC)
::hugs::

<irony> so long as the light doesn't turn out to be an oncoming train... </irony>

Thank you, really.
[identity profile] velvetwhip.livejournal.com on July 11th, 2006 03:47 pm (UTC)
:::hugs you tightly:::

I am so sorry all the bad stuff is happening!


Gabrielle