Ankantoiel's Diary

No responses yet – published on Dec, 29 2007 at 14:31 under Fanfiction, Holiday, Site, Sport.

… but not as you think. Christmas time is finally over as this year 2007 comes slowly to its end. Therefore the preparations for New Year’s Eve have started. This year I will celebrate with Alex in Innsbruck. We don’t know yet who else will stay here with us, but possibly Flo and Eva and Georg. But that’s not sure yet. Well this would be the first time to celebrate the New Year not with my family. I was never enthusiastic to spend this time of the year in Innsbruck where thousands of tourists want to see the Innsbrucker Bergsilver.

Today Alex and I will go skiing. The weather is very good and therefore both we want to try the pistes in Kühtai. Night skiing is always fun especially if the weather is great, also the prices are much better than during day time. I hope that I will be able to control my skis. It is the first time for me this winter that I go skiing.

Well, as one might have noticed I have made some minor and major changes to “Ankantoiel’s Diary”.

First of all I have re-written the fanfiction “Gil-galad’s Erbe”. Because of the very bad style I was always sorry about, I have made some changes to the complete story and of course to the style. It should be now more comprehensible. And I am proud to present a sequel. It has no name at the moment, but possibly it will simply be called “Gil-galad’s Erbe II”. I have written the first scenes some years ago as I realized that it was never really clear who Ankantoiel is and what kind of family she had in her time before she met the Amazons. So the sequel will be the story of her past and also of her future.

The second change was concerning my profile. I thought it would be nice to know what kind of music I listen to and what kind of literature I am reading. So therefore you can now see my last.fm charts and a list of recent listend tracks, as well as a list of books I am reading and I possess.

The last change is more or less small. I just added a Tag Cloud to the sidebar that should make search much more easy. It is now also easier to see what I am talking about here at this blog.

I see that I have written already to much, but I want to say that I am so excited to be able to go to the Lord of the Rings concert in March this year, and want to thank my sweetheart for this wonderful present. *loveyou*

3 responses so far – published on Nov, 15 2007 at 01:52 under Holiday, Site.

As one might see, I have changed the appearance of Ankantoiel’s Diary here and there. The most important change is related to the presentation of my stories. They can now be read online as well as offline using the .pdf file format. Feedback is always welcome.

I also want to mention that it was very difficult to find something to put into the upper right corner of this site. Should I give a short discribtion of me, as the following?

Welcome to the web presence of Carmen Brenner, a 22 years old student of Computer Science located in Tirol/Austria. … bliblablub

NO! In my opinion it is so unpersonal on a private blog to write such things. It’s necessary for a web presentation of one’s work, but nothing I want to have on my own blog.
So I was searching and searching for something to put there and finally, yeah, finally I had a very clever and crazy idea. Why not putting the small very lovely worm from “Laybrinth” there and his short talk with Sarah?

Worm: ‘Allo.
Sarah: Did you say Hello?
Worm: No, I said ‘Allo, but that’s close enough.
Sarah: You’re a worm, aren’t you?
Worm: Yeah, that’s right.
Sarah: Do you know the way through this labyrinth?
Worm: No. I’m just a worm.

I also want to present you some photos of my short holiday in Italy this spring where I visited Florence, Rome and Pompeji. The galleries are available since a long time on Photobucket and I had now the idea to import them to my blog.
But that was really difficult, because only a single plugin is available to import Photobucket albums to Wordpress. It is very easy to use. You just have to add a short line of code in your post where you enter the RSS feed of a Photobucket album. The line looks like this:

<a ref="javascript:void(0)" onclick="startRssLightbox('http://feed193.photobucket.com/albums/z284/Ankantoiel/Amalfi/feed.rss','photobucket'); return false"> test gallery <a>

There appeare to be some problems, nevertheless. Photobucket supports only one size of photos for the RSS feed, the original size of the uploaded pictures (compare Flickr that gives the possibility to select between four different sizes of photos for galleries e.g. original size or thumbnails). The plugin simply takes the photos from the feed, but don’t resizes them to fit the monitor resolution. Therefore I had to resize the pictures directly on Photobucket to prevent a too great overflow.
The plugin has also problems to parse feeds including spaces. The albums in Photobucket must be named that they don’t contain spaces to solve this thing.

But now, after my short conclusion to this usefull plugin, the photos of Italy come. To start the galleries, just click the single images.