Welcome to Rinato, Melindas blog riddled with vignettes, bad puns and exclamation marks! Enjoy your stay.

Katherine Moennig

Now playing: Architecture In Helsinki - Scissor Paper Rock

WOOT WOOT. Finally, new theme. Was it worth the wait? Or does it make you cringe? Does it blow you away? I hope it does!

Katherine MoennigAnd, I’m very sorry, but if you’re not completely enamoured with Katherine Meonnig then… We can’t be friends. I’m sorry. I am so in love it isn’t even cool. Is she not the hottest actress since… Ever? Just something about her… Le sigh.

You know what I hate about the way I write? I always find something good to write about when I am no where near a paper and pen. Gah. And then when I force myself to write, I can’t, or what I write is horrible. Noooo.

Have you heard of the movie My Neighbour Totoro (Tonari no Totoro)? It’s a very cute movie, meant for children… But it’s one of my favourites and I adore it! I stumbled across some fan art for it and I thought “Oh, how cute! Totoro fan art,”. That was until I clicked, and I think I kind of screamed. Warning: Extreme gore/blood, probably NSFW!

Totoro fan art by Sachsen, as opposed to this

I will never look at Totoro the same way again.

An open letter to Internet Explorer

Now playing: Athlete - Wires

Edit: Dood. I just totally fixed it thanks to Amanda giving me a cool link. Hallelujah! But I still don’t take that letter back. IE is causing too much trouble! I will put the new theme up sooooon, so soon.

Dear IE,

A long time ago, I used to be satisfied with you. I used to believe that you were the best way to use the Internet. In fact, I had never known that other browsers existed: I was completely devoted to you.

However, as time passed, I realised that there were better browsers that were not as half as demanding as you. I realised that I was actually behind and did not have a good browsing experience. Although we parted on good terms, I was much happier with my new browser. It was (And is) wonderful. I thought that this was the end of all the pain you had caused me.

But this was not to be. You are a naturally jealous browser, and I soon discovered that you wanted to make my life as difficult as possible. If you could not make me happy, you reasoned, then I would have no choice but to be upset.

When I code layouts, I do try to consider your feelings and make them compatible for you. But lately, you have become very difficult. You throw tantrums while other browsers display my layouts in near perfection. I do not appreciate this. I am not sure I can bend over backwards for you much longer.

This is your final warning! I am, desperately, asking for your co-operation. This is not a difficult task. I am fairly easy to please. All I ask is that you either imitate a better browser (Preferably Firefox), or commit an Internet form of suicide. That is all. It is not hard, is it?

Yours truly,
Melinda.

… If you didn’t get it, I am designing something rather smashing and it looks just fine in every browser other than IE. I would dismiss this and carry on my merry way, but the change is drastic: The sidebar jumps to the bottom of the page, so it looks horrible and my site is hard to use. I… Can’t tell you how frustrating that is! Ugh. I like the theme very much, and I am trying everything but it isn’t working. I am this close to deciding to sod the whole thing and apologize profusely to IE users in advance… While at the same time strangling them for using such a craptastic browser.

About two weeks ago, I was riding in the car with my four year old cousin in my lap. It was late (About 12:00) and we had a wonderful view of the sky and the stars shining very brightly. I said, pointing at the stars while tickling her tummy, “Look at the stars! They’re very bright tonight,”. She agreed.

About thirty seconds later she came up with “Look at the stars so that you can dream of stars tonight, and the sky will be full of glitter,”.

… I found that surprisingly poetic. From a four year old? Impressive! I said “That was incredibly poetic. You don’t know what that means, but you’ll find out when you get older,”

She just made happy bubbles and looked at the stars some more.

OMG MORON.

Ugh, I completely suck, don’t I? But I’m back! To make a long, boring story short: Something that was bugging me about my FTP finally made me crack it, so I decided to investigate and, instead of prevailing over The Ebil FTP Demon I instead crashed and burned and my head exploded and I vomited at the same time. I summoned the help of Higher Powers (again!), and after a few clicks and emails my blog is back on track.

The annoying thing about this is that I completely get WordPress… It’s just the installation I don’t get. I read and re-read the codex many times and tried and tried and tried (and tried), but for some reason I always managed to royally screw up somewhere along the way. Confounding, isn’t it? The whole thing makes me feel dumber than Jessica Simpson after she questioned the difference between chicken and tuna.

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