October 31, 2006 » October’s end
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This is not an entry you'll get to read on the most of other people's blogs on the last day of October, so I'm reeeeally sorry that I don' fit into the cliché. 
14 days ago someone sort of...slapped me in the face, in a good way. We met earlier this year and I instantly liked them for many reasons: enormous intelligence, knowing at what point people's discussions turn from interesting to tasteless and their slight resemblance to my childhood best friend, as if they were a version 2.0 of that person (who is, by the way, not really nice, as we spoke a couple of weeks ago, talked about seeing each other and she's not even returning text messages now! So NOT nice and so not sincere...). That evening, when I came home from a small gathering we both went to, I sat down and cried. I wondered if I was really becoming so strange that even people who don't know me that well can notice it. And, at the same time, I couldn't believe that someone was so nice to me, as I almost always have the bad luck of running into egoists, agony aunts, fake moralists and...you know, all those idiots. And, somehow, after that day, I did a huge amount of work, I didn't sleep for more than 10-12 hours per night (and that's a big step forward for me) and I didn't cry one single time. It's a nice feeling. And I wish we could be friends. I must be silly with the "will you be my friend" attitude, but ummm...sometimes it works. It would really be nice. Either way, I'm thankful to them for giving me a stress-free second half of October 2006.
However, some others have done all they could, probably because they're dumb. Basically, someone descrambled the URLs to the new and very popular video clips on Invisible Movement and found the exact path to the .wmv files on the server. And what happened next? A bunch of "lol im so dumb how r u lol" MySpace kids have started using those videos on their freakin' profile pages, among falling skulls, bright green lines, so all of their 6556566 friends out of them they know 2 could see them. Isn't that cute? I am looking for the best way to protect my files so this never happens again. I'm also considering switching that domain to Dreamhost or some similar provider which does offer a lot, but is reliable enough at the same time.
Seriously, how does one deal with idiots? Any ideas? Experience from people running big sites would surely help.
Last week, I was pretty quiet...why? The last week of October is the week of the famous anual book fair here. It's the second largest book fair in Europe afer the one in Frankfurt, if I'm correct....
Iva is the owner of this blog. She's a web designer who loves poetry way too much and won't stop writing it. She also runs a couple of other websites, such as this one.
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I'm happy you made a new friend--you sounded like you needed one last we talked. ^_^.
As for the I-M.net problems... maybe there's some strange .htaccess command we don't know about that you could use? Who knows...
I'm so glad that your entry is not one of the typical late October ones. I'm so sick of Halloween, I must admit.
The best of friends are those who are there when you most needed them. I feel happy for you that someone was there, or else you might not get through - at least not as easily.
I'm sorry about the video thing. I totally hate those MySpace kids who constantly update their profile with random stolen videos.
ciao!