Dream

Marie has created and posted on DeviantART over a year ago a cute little sushi design. The design has won a contest. But…oops! The contestant was not Marie.

In other words, someone stole Marie’s artwork and used it to win the contest. To top it off, it is not just any average contest where you can win something like an avatar. It’s a contest where the winner can get real money, a scholarship of a few thousands of dollars.

You can visit the site to warn them of this fraud, or add Marie’s news on DeviantART to your favorites.

I abhor that day. Beside a few jokes, like some Google ones, I just hate it. I’m an anxious person. I keep having obsessions / thoughts that the whole world is not really like I see it, that X and Y are lying to me, etc. So today is the perfect day for me to wish to hide in my bedroom (or to play Final Fantasy V, after I convince my brain that the game will not fool me) and not go outdoors.

I hate reading everything with an actually justified suspicion. OK, which part of this is real? Which part is a lie? Is this website pulling a prank or are they serious?

If you are a user of BellaBuffs, you probably noticed the warning on the buttons upload page, saying that setting a folder’s permission to 777 can be very risky. I will not contradict that statement, for the simple reason that it is entirely true.

Of course, adding buttons through the script is fun and easy. You just need to click a few times to add a button magically (and lazily ;)). So, how can you do it without putting your website (and your entire server) at risk? It’s actually quite easy, but it will require you to log in to FTP, although this is not how you will upload your files. Note that this “tutorial” requires you to know how to change a folder’s permission (CHMOD).

First, you will need to log in to your FTP account and set the folder’s permission to 777. Don’t worry just yet! Don’t shut down the window or sign out yet, you’ll do this last.

Then, sign in to your administration panel and simply proceed to adding new buttons.

Finally, set the folder’s permission back to 755 and sign out from everything you need to sign out of. The images will still be visible on your fanlisting and your folder will not be putting you at risk!

Nice, huh? You don’t need to credit me for that useful piece of information. Just enjoy your new safety points.

There’s even more to it. There are many other scripts out there that claim to need permissions to be set to 777. Actually, if all you do is something like uploading images, you only need to change the permission while you are using this feature, and can set it back to a safer number when you’re done.

Thanks for the comments on the previous post. I wasn’t expecting *that* to be my most-comment-attracting post in weeks.

I had an appointment today with the girl who will help me find a job. We were mostly discussing my therapy and my job/school background, in order to give her a general idea of what type of job might interest me.

She told me of an organism that could possibly be interested in a person like me (i.e. a computer geek). They basically produce a newspaper to help homeless people. They have a website and they need someone to keep it updated. I checked the site and it has no trace of PHP anywhere, so I can imagine it being complicated when you are clueless to HTML. I don’t mean that PHP makes things magically updating themselves, but just that you can’t have an HTML-only admin panel to allow quick updates and the like.

That said, I’m not entirely guaranteed to get the job. She needs to verify to things before. First, she needs to check if she can get a subvention. Since I’m a crazy girl and have very little working experience (she doesn’t know I have a lot of personal experience with websites, but that is still different from actually working), and since the organism is specialized in helping people in therapy finding jobs, they can get subventions to compensate employers for potential problems (i.e. me going nuts in the middle of a work day). For the record, I have never actually gone nuts while at work, in any of my previous jobs.

Second, she needs to actually verify that they are still looking for someone. Get all the subventions you want, when there’s no job to do, there’s no job to do. The subvention part shouldn’t be much of a problem, mostly because I am diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, so they’ll be all happy to send me working. “We provide employment for high-functioning autistic people! We are the bestzors!11!!one!”

There are five unpublished drafts in my WordPress admin panel. Two or three are posts I started here and never finished, while the others are from my Funpic website, and probably went boom because I had a hard time making WordPress function properly. Stupid thing. One of these drafts must eventually get published, it’s a…text on some aspects of my writing.

Want to build a fanlisting? Well, if you choose one from the list below, you are guaranteed to have at least one member (that would be me). I’ll surely be adding more as time goes by. They are sorted by TFL.org category.

Adult

G-Spot

Albums

Celine Dion: Let’s Talk About Love, S’il suffisait d’aimer
David Bowie: Heathen
Loreena McKennit: Book of Secrets
Soundtrack: MirrorMask

Animals

Platypus

Animation

Astérix et Cléopâtre (movie)
Astérix chez les Bretons (movie)
Les douzes travaux d’Astérix (movie)
Family Guy: PTV (episode)

Arts and Design

Baroque Architecture
German Expressionism
Any painting by Renoir

Authors/Writers

Emile Nelligan

Characters: Book and Movie

Beetle Juice: Beetle Juice
Gangs of New York: Bill the Butcher
The Princess Bride: many characters
Sense and Sensibility: Elinor Dashwood
The Talisman / Black House: Jack Sawyer
Various characters from Tolkien’s non-LOTR books

Characters: TV

Babylon 5: Sinclair
Doctor Who: Romana
The Muppets: Animal

Comics

Astérix et Cléopâtre (the comic book issue)
Various characters from Fables

Companies

Le Château (retail store)

Computers Miscellany and Internet

Domains: .ie
Foxit (PDF file reader)
Torrents

Episodes

Doctor Who: 1.06 Dalek
Doctor Who: 1.08 Father’s Day
Doctor Who: 1.12 Bad Wolf
Doctor Who: 1.13 The Parting of the Ways
Doctor Who: 2.05 Rise of the Cybermen
Doctor Who: 2.06 The Age of Steel
Doctor Who: 2.09 The Satan Pit

Fan Works

More Titanic / Rose DeWitt Bukater related

Games

Dynomite
Final Fantasy: Black Mages (class)
Final Fantasy IX: Chocobo Hot & Cold (mini-game)
Hidden Objects Games
Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time
Mystery Case Files series
Portal Ending Theme
Role-Playing Games (RPG)

Hobbies and Recreation

Collecting/Collections (general)

Miscellaneous

Cleanliness
Courage
Health
Intelligence

Movies

German Expressionism

Music Miscellany

Composers

Musicians: Bands

Alice DeeJay
The Tea Party

Musicians: Female

Fitzgerald, Ella

Objects

Statues

Songs: Bands

AFI: This Time Imperfect
Air Supply: All Out of Love
Alice Cooper: Poison
Alice DeeJay: Better Off Alone
Bad Religion: A Streetkid Named Desire
Bananarama: Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)
Daft Punk: Robot Rock, Technologic, Steam Machine…
Flogging Molly: Devil’s Dance Floor
Goldfrapp: any!
Madison Avenue: Don’t Call Me Baby
Nightwish: they all deserve one
Papa Roach: Obsession, Getting Away With Murder, and more
Pearl Jam: Last Kiss

Songs: Female Solo

Avril Lavigne: Losing Grip, Mobile, Unwanted, Anything But Ordinary, Nobody’s Fool, I Don’t Give, Together, He Wasn’t, My Happy Ending, Forgotten, Who Knows, Fall To Pieces
Carla Bruni: Quelqu’un m’a dit, Le toi de moi
Celine Dion: The Power of Love, Pour que tu m’aimes encore, Destin, Les derniers seront les premiers, J’irai où tu iras, J’attendais, To Love You More, Falling Into You, It’s All Coming Back To Me Now, The Reason, Immortality, Miles To Go Before I Sleep, En attendant ses pas, S’il suffisait d’aimer, I’m Alive, Ten Days, A New Days Has Come, I Surrender

Songs: Male Solo

Ricky Martin: She’s All I Ever Had

Songs: Various

Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand: Tell Him
Theme Song of Doctor Who

Toys and Collectibles

Paper Dolls
Paper Dolls: Disney

TV Shows

Bougon, Les
Catherine
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