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( I bought the first season of Love My Way on DVD and watched it this past week. )

( I've also watched ReGenesis up through season 3. )

Last week, for the first time in several years, I actually entered an icon challenge. I don't even know what came over me, I was just journal-hopping and suddenly I had Photoshop open and was making challenge icons. Don't know if it'll be a regular thing, but I had fun!

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Another thing I've been doing since I last posted is working on my galleries.

I've got a new look (well, as for right now, it's only the Dexter gallery, since I've been working out some kinks).

The main thing I've been trying to do is to resize the fullsize images on the intermediate image page using html, and I finally got it working! I am NOT using intermediate pictures. If you right-click and view the image on that page, or if you save it to your hard drive, you'll get the fullsized one.

Personally, I always copy the image and paste it into Photoshop when I make icons, and I've been trying to find a way of not having to use an intermediate picture, but still being able to see the whole thing without the need to scroll sideways. As it turns out, the theme I'm using also meant some restrictions, so I ended up resizing the images to fit the gallery width so it didn't start looking weird.

If you absolutely hate it, you can always change the theme by adding ?theme=water_drop (my old theme) to the url. Otherwise, you'd better get used to it because I'm slowly changing all my galleries over to the new theme. Except I'll probably do something different for vm-caps.

Also, what do you guys think of the film strip showing seven images? I feel like I get lost with so many there, maybe five is enough?

Today is my five year LJ-versary, and I had planned to post the second part of my Aeryn picspam, but then hackers happened and I lost my will to live picspam. Instead I have tried to icon (operative word here is TRIED), watched P&P and read fic. All in all, I have to say I have no regrets.

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I got all my galleries up and running and so far so good. *keeps fingers crossed* If you notice anything wrong, please tell me about it.

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txvoodoo linked to this site the other day: What if we all voted? It's a chance for non-Americans to vote for the candidate they like in the US presidential race. Obama is winning by a landslide.

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I want to watch something, but I can't decide between starting my Farscape rewatch, finishing the last three episodes (EVER) of The Wire, Life on Mars s2, Six Feet Under s1, Wire in the Blood s5 or Spaced s2, so instead I'm just sitting here watching nothing. I think I'll just grab whichever is closest, which happens to be...Six Feet Under.

Well, I now know what I'm doing instead of having that relaxing weekend I've been dreaming about: Restoring my web site, which got HACKED. (Fuck!)

Just as a public service, since I've spent all day dealing with this shit, ( here's some tips. )

winter_baby and bellanut, I've checked your galleries and so far I haven't seen any signs of them being hacked (hacked galleries have a row of black characters at the top and bottom. Also, my script blocker pops up), but you might want to take the preventative measures I listed under the cut. Also, winter_baby, the original FNL gallery has been compromised, so I'm just going to delete it entirely (I only say this because I noticed you hadn't uploaded the caps for episode 2 yet, so you might want to do that).

Right now, the galleries that are affected are offline or the directories renamed (another side-effect seems to be that I can't log into some of them to take them offline). So far, I've only restored some of the smaller galleries, like Eureka, The Black Donnellys and [spooks], but I hope to get vm-caps and the movie gallery up and running tonight.

Wow, this sure is FUN. /sarcasm