Ankantoiel's Diary

2 responses so far – published on Mar, 23 2008 at 17:45 under Hobby,Site.

HOPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter to all of you! I hope you have found all eggs in the garden and had a pleasant Sunday. The weekend was very comfortable and relaxing. I haven’t done to much just spent the half of the day in WoW :notunderstand: and tried to get new legs for my tanking gear. But I fear that’s more difficult than I thought. The kilt that droppes in Mana Tombs heroic does not want to dropp for me as well as the T4 token from Gruul the Dragonkiller, and I have not enough DKP points to get the T5 token today because five others have more. That can really suck. :mmm2:

After this whole WoW playing I was really creative and the inspiration overcame me (Please notice: There is no correlation between playing WoW and being creative. *hihi*). So I opened Photoshop and out came two new signatures.

I really like them. The “Jareth” signature is of course extremely colorful, but I personally think that this fits wonderful the film and the topic of the song “Dance magic”. On the other site the “Legolas” signature is very dark beside the small Lothlorién theme. I made this signature because I have realized that I have never created a “Legolas” or Lord of the Rings signature. That was a really bitter discovery.

These are not the only news related to “Ankantoiel’s Diary”. After I have visited my sister’s blog I was so freaked out because of the small plugin that displays random quotes that I had to integrate it also on my own site right now. You can see the result in the top right corner of the page where the worm has his home. If you have a quote that is worth to be added, please just send me a message and I will consider it.

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.