Jenna's House of Idiosyncrasies Version 10.0 [Focus.]

You probably haven't noticed, but you are looking at a brand new site. After nearly six years of powering jennatollerson.com with Movable Type, I decided to follow the advice I've been giving out in my professional life for the past year, and rebuild the site using Drupal. This was not a particularly easy decision, as it meant migrating nearly 600 entries, and their comments, and their tags. Not to mention images, audio, and video files.

As you might guess, there is not a super simple way to do this. I got lots of help from this page, but it took a lot of trial and error, after which I went through and audited my content, trying to fix most things that were broken. Many links are still broken. However, it had to be done, because Drupal is a vastly superior CMS, and in the risk of having my salesman persona bleed into this site, I'll tell you why. This is going to be a developer-centric entry, where I talk about lots of geeky things. You might get bored , and for that, I apologize. If you came here looking for an entry all about my dark feelings, you'll have to wait for another day! Read More »

My business has been featured in D-Web Magazine, which as I understand it is based in New York. Fancy. The article about me (which is really just a simple Q&A) is here, and my logo is on the front page twice. All at least marginally exciting, one must admit.

So I just went to look something up on the wikipedia, and there was a picture of a giant mutilated cock covering most of the content on the main page. The photo had the words "body mod" or somesuch laid into the center (I looked away pretty quickly and focused on the search box), implying that someone had actually split the head of their penis in two in the name of body modification. I don't tend to be judgemental about the body modification concept in general but seriously? It looked like it couldn't even be put to good use anymore. Who would want to live like that?

No, I did not take a screenshot. No need to traumatize even more people.

Ah, the joys of a web site built on user contributions.

So my network card has finally died it's official death. That means that until i can get the wireless network up and running in my house (or until my dad can anyway) you will not be seeing me on AIM and updates here will be sporatic and read a little bit desperate, quick and accomplished from other people's computers.

But in good news, I went through and optimized this journal page (cleaned up some old code that basically pulled things in from sites that no longer exist) so those of you that had been experiencing those slow download times should be mostly remedied now.

Finally, things are weird lately. I feel hyper-lucid, like everything is suddenly becoming clear, which sounds really cool but it's more like—well let's just say it's just not cool. It's rather silly also but being offline is making me feel cut off from my support system. Really I'm spending a lot of time trying not to bother people but knowing I should bother somebody.

I want December to be here! I want my work to be done, class to be over, and to have time on my hands to thing about all this, maybe to talk about all this.

That never seems to go anywhere though.