Ankantoiel's Diary

3 responses so far – published on Sep, 28 2009 at 01:44 under Site.

After months of seeing “Elvish ships” – and I really liked that image of Ted Nasmith – I had enough and decided to make something new and fresh. No old and already used layout with other colours, but something really new, done by myself. And so after some days of thinking I came up with a rough idea that finally turned out to this, the new design for Ankantoiel’s Diary. The name “Butterflies” is not really creative, but it is now 1 o’clock in the morning and I am absolutely tired and nothing else crosses my mind that might sound cool or whatever.

I have tried to use HTML 5.0 the first time for this design, and I think I will really enjoy it in the future as there are a lot of new tags that make it much more easier to implement stuff (videos etc.) – at least for my private pages I can ignore the fact that too much people still use old browsers, but for work I will always need fallbacks. That sucks! But with HTML 5.0 also new semantic tags are introduced and as XHTML 2.0 is dead – may it rest in peace – it will be the only standard in the future. It’s good that both working groups joined forces therefore.

I really would like to tell you now some other news, but I am trying to fight off sleep despite that I cannot win this battle. It’s now already 01:30 AM, and Alex is still working ignoring the fact that it is – sorry, was – Sunday after all but work has to be done. When I think of the whole bunch of work I have to do until Wednesday I simply could cry, but at least next Sunday I’ll be off for Helsinki and will enjoy the Finish lifestyle – meaning sitting in an ice bar and drinking Vodka. *kippis*

No responses yet – published on Sep, 25 2009 at 15:16 under Computer, Holiday.

One might wonder what I was doing lately. But to be honest, not much.

I was working and doing nothing spectacular. I had an exam that went quite well, and I prepared myself for the upcoming holidays that I will spend in Helsinki. To this preparation a new suitcase with beauty case may count as well as the investment in a Nintendo DS Lite. To be true, I thought long about buying that thing, but I had a Gameboy Color and it seemed rather childish to play with such a device. But finally I couldn’t resist – and now, I am a proud owner of a white NDS Lite. Only downer is the fact that the console will be cheaper next month, but I found this out three days after I bought it. With the device I also bought the Games “Pokémon Pearl” and “Dragon Quest IV – The Chapters of the Chosen“.

Pokémon Pearl is very similar to the old games (Red/Blue/Yellow and Silver/Gold Version) I was playing on my GBC. Of course, the region changed again and new features as Wifi were introduced into the game as well as new Pokémon, but the core of the game is still the same and I enjoy to see some of the old Pokémon again.
Dragon Quest IV on the other hand is a classic RPG, and it makes a lot of fun to see the story of the different characters you are playing. I only reached chapter 2, but I will finally play it to the end. The only minus point is that the stylus and touchscreen are not used at all in this game. Maybe this will be improved in the next Dragon Quest game – I haven’t tested it, but I am really looking forward to this.

Yesterday started season 2 of the TV show “The Mentalist“. I only saw some few episodes and I really liked it. The only problem was the crazy always changing times it was screened by ORF. But Alex and I decided to watch it from the beginning after we have finished “Damages” – a great show with Glenn Close. It started a bit lengthy but it’s getting more and more interesting in the end.