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Archive for October 26, 2009
Percy and Septimus…
Oct 26th
So these two are pretty much the big fandom that I talk about here on the blog (so far) right? Well, when I got to meet Angie Sage (see this post) she said that she doesn’t read any other fantasy -to keep from ending up like Paolini, where half of his work is taken from other stories. :P (It’s okay Chris, I still like Eragon!! Brisingr was a bit much tho)
Well, Rick’s family apparently doesn’t follow the same deal. Rick, btw, is the Percy Jackson author. I was reading his blog (now on my favorites!) and came across this gem:
On the reading front, Becky and Patrick are both reading their way through Angie Sage’s Septimus Heap series and really loving it.
Patrick is his son, and I can only assume that Becky is his wife. How AWESOME is that? And really, how can you not love Septimus Heap? :P
Also from his blog, apparently The Lightning Thief is getting a new edition. I guess I’ll just get this (comes out November 3rd) to replace my icky softcover.
Speaking of which, I also need the special 10th edition copy of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone book… too much to buy!!
DATS Image Uploader updates
Oct 26th
As you may or may not have noticed, all the images on the blog here are uploaded to img.dats.us – this is my personal (and well, rest of the DATS people use it sometimes too) image uploader.
It works pretty much like tinypic or imageshack or whatever, except that… well, I host it. :P And it requires the most secure thing ever – a PASSWORD!
Anyways, I spent some time and prettified it up. Now it has the DATS logo on it, and it also prints out a code, so that when I use it here on the blog (or anywhere else, I guess) I don’t have to type that out manually. Laziness ftw, I guess. :)
I did some other stuff, I guess, like making the title a link and adding more margin + a top border, but nothing really big. It’s just making it look a bit better, and a bit more useful. I can’t really think of anything else I could do with it. xD
I’m still waiting for QC to finish up my Magykal.net layout… I wonder how she’s doing…
Also, for anyone following that Percy/Nico epic, chapter 9 has come out for the third story. I finally got around to reading it today! :)
New Percy Jackson poster!
Oct 26th
OMG, awesome looking! I’m looking more and more forward to this movie every day!!!
Credit goes to debzsoares over at cabinthree :)
Twittering out the blog
Oct 26th
I dunno why, but I added a bunch of twitter stuff here on the blog. Which really isn’t that important, since the biggest day I’ve had was a total of 8 people, it’s not like many come. Haha.
Anyways, there’s now a twitter thing on the sidebar where you can follow me, and all the posts now have a “tweet” button, where you can tweet the title of the blog. Kinda cool, I guess.
The other thing I added was a “Now Reading” which shows the book I’ve been attempting to read since the release date – Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. I’m only like half-way through now… still! It’s absurd how long it’s taking me to read it. Haha. I’ll try and keep it up to date when I pick up new books. Though I dunno what I’ll do if I try and read two at once… I read Syren during my reading of The Lost Symbol. ;p
