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16/02/26

I don't know why but I hate how my site looks. (And no its not because I set background to #111111.) There's something off about it and I have no clue how to fix it. I HATE IT!!!! i should just switch to plain html but its BOOOORING.

I tried to make my own git repo so I can host the source for the site. Sadly cgit and gitolite doesn't want to work together, the permissions dont want to permit. Maybe I should have used normal git but I can't be bothered now. too lazy.

Need to watch School Days.

13/02/26

Nothing to journal about. I've been neglecting the site. :(

01/02/26

I've added a style selector onto the site if you have JS on. Only a few styles at the moment but I'll make more fun styles soon. moe.css isnt moe enough...

Anyways nothing is going on. Happy February!

22/01/26

New journal update. Been playing a bit of Minecraft with friends in the past few days, its fun but man new Minecraft sucks. It's so soulless compared to the 2010's. :(

13/01/26

Watched Haibane Renmei. It was pretty good. Funnily enough I've had Haibane Renmei artwork for my computer wallpapers when I haven't even watched it lol. To be fair though, Abe Yoshitoshi's art style is quite stunning and beautiful to look at. One day I would like to create art with a similar style as him, though I'm not an art guy sadly.

Anyways, I have added an email you can contact me with on the home page. Am I going to periodically check it? Maybe, if there will be a flow of emails that I'm obligated to look at. Email for me is just a place to get verification codes. It's such a shame to see the state of email, It's too centralized and its a mild pain to self-host email and having your mail sent reliably when there's racketeering organizations such as Spamhaus harassing hosting providers. (blah blah blah I will probably continue next time on a dedicated page.)

07/01/26

New journal update. I have been reading more recently. I'm nearly done with the first volume of Spice & Wolf's light novel and it seems that it goes a different direction than the (original) anime from the few episodes I watched a while ago. Fun to read.

01/01/26

Happy new year. I would say 2025 wasn't really much interesting. It seems that every year passes it gets worser and worser. Anyways, hopefully I will bother to do interesting stuff that I been thinking about this year. 99.9% of 2025 was me meaninglessly bedrotting (okay, maybe I should stop thinking about sad stuff like this). At the end of 2026 I want to see my site to be filled with so much dogshit, at the moment its a bit barren... probably because I JUST started it.

2025

23/12/25

I watched Welcome to the NHK. It's good (a bit hard to watch though), but it has made me a little bit more depressed. I should read the original novel since the anime apparently redacts quite a lot of the cool stuff... Something Misaki said (IIRC) was that ones that think of themselves being successful tend to ones that don't do anything, which I relate to quite a lot. I wish I had someone like her IRL......

19/12/25

The trackpad for my lolpad was being a bit fucky with me so I removed it and blowed air on it. Problem solved. Anyways, the iFixit Guide about it says that you have to disassemble the whole laptop in order to access it, you don't lol. I could just edit it for them, but I won't because theres a comment about it.

I took a walk.

13/12/25

I spend too much damn time looking at a screen, I should stop.

I got these old computing books at a bookshop a week ago. 2 of them are about making a website, another one a KISS guide on Windows ME, and another one about teaching yourself computers and the Internet VISUALLY. They're pretty cool and soulful but will I read them? Probably not, but maybe I could use them to help make my site :')

12/12/25

Nothing, nothing, nothing. Still alive.

08/12/25

Yup, truly a dud.

Furthermore, I dont think its the board thats the issue, it seems to be the component on the bottom left of the laptop, I think I will put the old board back in with the new component which came with the motherboard I got.

You can't change it. It has the security chip in it, which is locked in with the motherboard. Everything is PERFECTLY FINE but no, "IBM Embedded Security hardware tamper detected". FUCK SECURITY.

Maybe its possible to flash the BIOS so it doesnt give a shit but the thing is theres basically no information on that and I have never done it before.

07/12/25

Its a dud, I think. For some reason, the display doesnt turn on most of the time when turning it on, its a pain to boot anything and when it does it goes black. I could just be ADHD and not giving it enough time. Anyways it won't turn on anymore after I unplugged the charger, did I short it?

Furthermore, I dont think its the board thats the issue, it seems to be the component on the bottom left of the laptop, I think I will put the old board back in with the new component which came with the motherboard I got.

05/12/25

Gave it a go at replacing the motherboard, sadly I only have 2 braincells so I didn't complete it. I will probably have to disassemble the whole laptop in order to replace it. Its hinge cover is fucked for some reason, won't screw off with one screw skipping with loads of resistance for some reason. hopefully i can do it!!!!!

03/12/25

Did mostly nothing today, recieved a package for a motherboard for an old thinkpad that needs a new one I think. Will do later in the weekend.