So the computer decided to die on me about 2 weeks ago. Screen went out and nothing else happened when it was turned on. Lucky for me it was still under warrenty so we just had to send it in and get it fixed. Good news is the new screen looks much sharper then the old one. Bad news the hard drive had to be wiped, there was also an issue with the motherboard that effed up the hard drive. I have about 95% of all my important stuff backed up on my external…. with the exception of the work I had been doing these past 2 months. Now it’s all gone and I have a lot of catching up to do T-T.

My wordpress theme I was working on is all gone…  I have to start over! I think I’ll be putting that project off for now out of sheer frustration. I got a lot accomplished for DS (omg yes we’re still gonna put it back up) that I have to start a lot over for. Lucky I did upload a good portion of the work I did so it’s not too horrible. I caught up a lot more so far this weekend. Really just have to build up all the pages and we can finally open the site back up. Just a few glitches… like for some reason when users login pages don’t display… but it does for Admins and guests not logged in. I thought maybe it had to do with the phpbb permissions affecting the site… but makes no sense since guest that have no permissions are able to view pages and users that have standard permissions cannot. So I’m guessing it’s something with our authorization coding… which Kai wrote up… and he is also lacking a computer right now so it’ll have to wait XD. Other than that everything is going very nicely. I found a great AJAX based rating script I’d like to use… but I still need to figure out how to integrate it into saving rated data into a database. I’m new with AJAX so it’s confusing. Forced me to install prototype and scriptolicious which just happen to be amazing in what they can accomplish with Javascripts and AJAX. I highly recommend everyone look into it.

So for fun there is a viewable page up for DS: http://deadeyes-star.com/gakujin
Links to nothing else at the moment and we have a temporary test database up just to see if things work. Diru is the only band with some information… they always seem to be our test band XD. I’m hoping this week to update our new databases with past information since everything on the site links together it’s hard to put up and complete everything with out the band database with the band id’s up.

More fun news, a friend of mine has recently discovered the amazing world of Asian BJD’s. She does independent video production and with her new found facination wants to create like a mini BJD documentry. I have a few friends she’d like to do interviews on and next month she’s planning to drag the video exquipment up into Manhattan to attend a doll meet. Seems like a fun project to be involved in. Still not sure yet if I want to actually be on film though… I mean I only have one doll so I don’t seem like much of a fanatic. Deep down I am, I’m just poor XD…. ROFL also I get to pick songs for background music XD. Not sure quite what goes with dolls :/ lots of Jrock of some sort though.