The Time Siren Diaries

This photo showed up on LiveJournal this morning and was apparently plastered all over Twitter and Facebook after Neil Gaiman uploaded it to his Twitpic account. Fans are squeeing with delight at the announcement on the Doctor Who News Page that, “Gaiman has now completed his script for the 2011 series of Doctor Who, although the title is still secret.”

It bore the amusing caption of, “Who are these three middle aged men? Dear God, what are they plotting? Can no one save us? ”

Who wants to be saved, this gal wants to know?

As a side note of interest, Curtis is the author of “Vincent and the Doctor”, Episode Ten of the new series.

A painful choice for Amy Pond awaits her in "Amy's Choice"

A great review of the episode, “Amy’s Choice”. Very indepth:

http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2010/05/051610doctor_who_blogging_amys_choic.html

We are so having this at our Doctor Who party on the 17th…

Instructions on how to make this here. Thank you, Kamikaze Cookery, for your wonderful & weird contribution to the world of human food and to the heritage of the Time Lords.

As we near the release date for Doctor Who in the U.K., podcasts, articles, interviews, images and clips have are giving us a steady stream of news about our favorite Time Lord. Will he wear a face this time around that will become our favorite? Will it be the face for the next new generation of Who Fans? Everyone has a different answer, but the one thing we all have in common is that the news is piquing all our curiosities.

Because the news is so scattered across the internet, I thought I’d compile it all here in one spot for my readers, and thank you, those of youu who have joined my Feedburner and RSS feeds from the links to my 5th Doctor fan fiction on Whofic and FanFiction.net. More will be coming your way as well in stories, avatars and wallpapers, I promise.

Recent Who News as of Tuesday, March 23, 2010:

On Blogtor Who -

Steven Moffat – BBC Breakfast Interview is also here “STEVEN MOFFAT was a guest on today’s edition of BBC Breakfast…In it he confirms that an old monster will return, the Weeping Angels are “way worse this time” and that Matt is an “elegant shambles”.” I love the term, “elegant shambles”! SPOILER ALERT in the links on this page. If you don’t want to know anything further about specific episodes, DON’T click on any video clips without reading the accompanying descriptions, OR on the “2010: THE NEW SERIES” episode links on the right-hand side of the page. There are no plot spoilers in the 2010 links, BUT there are episode images and SCRIPT EXCERPTS…I am so loving this ‘site…

Blogtor Who also contains press launch interviews with Matt, Karen & David, 1st episode clip snippets, pics of the spread in the Radio Times, more snippets from Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, links to tons more video, pics and to their friends at Den of Geek for a spoiler-free review.

Doctor Who in the Media – Article Round Up

The Master. Destroying stupid people that won't get in the groove...one planet at a time!

Haven’t you ever felt like breaking out and destroying the world ’cause it just won’t get with the program?!?

http://mashable.com/2008/09/19/top-wordpress-themes/

Beautiful and definitely NOT ordinary. Makes me want to sit down and do a Doctor Who WordPress theme, then maybe some Anime ones…that would be so cool!

~ article source – Mashable.com

WordPress Theme - Sliding Door

Sliding Door by Wayne Connor, a Mac Host blogger whose theme has over 1,100 fans and supporters on his WordPress and Joomla Support Site forum. His explanation of how the theme works and how it can be customized is fairly straightforward if you have a basic knowledge of css. You don’t even need a full comprehension of .php to get it to work; you just have to follow the instructions, do a little digging on the forum when you get into trouble and you can customize it to your tastes. I fell in love with the potentiality of the design and used it for a local, Los Angeles business networking client, Referrals Unlimited, in Westlake Village, CA.

WARNING – TECHNICAL STUFF -

I customized the images at the top of the page by:

* Going into the header.php file and adding another line to the “links you go to when you click on a sliding door image section” in the header underneath the other categories. This starts around line 51 if you are using the 1.7.1 version of Sliding Doors…there is a new version, 1.8.7. It is easy to remember – add lines if you are adding additional image panes to the 7 default ones, subtract panes if you are wanting fewer.

* Also going in the imageMenu.css file in the imagemenu directory, add another (or subtract) a line(s) below where they start, also around line 51.

* In the same file, change line 40′s width dimension to accomodate additional or removed panes.

* To remove the default titles and change the default links to the windows to where you want them to point, go into the functions.php and add or remove a line to add or remove a pane.

The important part to remember is something not covered in as much detail in the forum’s FAQs, but in a question answered here. This is in the calculation of the width of the panes or “blades” as they are referred to in the discussion. The conversation goes something like this:

1. You remove (or add) one of the li lines in the header code in the div called image menu.

2. You adjust the openWidth parameter in the javascript just below that in the header.

3. You may also want to change the closed widths in the imagemenu.CSS file.

in the section that begins #imageMenu ul li a {
width:133px is the width of the picture when closed.

It’s in the section #imageMenu ul li a {
It’s width:133px;
This is the width of the picture when closed.

I guess it would be 133 times 7 divided by 6 (155px).”

It takes a little tweaking, but if you are used to that in .css and .php, you will knock it out pretty quickly. I wasn’t and it took me a while to get it right, but that’s because I was a newbie at tweaking php settings. Now that I have the notes and have worked with it, it doesn’t take me as long to do.

You may notice that my jewelry & giftware website, EarthDaughter Arts, has been down for two weeks. That is because some asshat credit card scammers in Russia hacked it. My ISP shut the website down and I had to clean out the files and start over again.

I really want to nail those bastards in Russia.

But, will you hear me complain about having to clean out those files and reboot a website that has been up since 1992? No, not really. You see, I have been wanting to take down the website and clean it up and out, completely and utterly for a couple of months anyways. Yes it was a pain in the butt to have to drop everything and deal with this mess, but it was worth it and I was wanting to do it anyway.

Everything happens for a reason.

So…what does this have to do with Open Cart? Well, I had Zen Cart as my shopping cart for a few years now and it was difficult to manage for a number of reasons…the back-end being too complex, for one. So, in a pondry as to which shopping cart to go to next (heck, I wasn’t even looking!), I ran across a local programmer in my networking circles that uses Open Cart. My God, what a LIFESAVER. The thing is so simple to use, even a retard could install and use it. *jumping up and down with glee!*

After my new programmer took me on a working tour of the Open beast, I jumped on installing one on my system ASAP. Then, to my horror, after I had deleted all the sample categories for products, the damn thing wouldn’t let me create new ones! WTF?!?!?!!!! I went to Open Cart’s forum and looked up the problem. They knew what it was.

Would you believe it was the Germans???

Yes, the problem (for those of you tearing your hair out), is the stupid German language module in the admin area. Find the language and delete it, dude. Then your Open Cart will work like a charm. God, I love forums. Go to them early and often and you won’t have to rely on the lack of customer service and 24/7/365 tech support #s.

Open Cart Forum Discussion on Categories problem in Open Cart