Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 11:17 pm

Look ma! I made my very first Flash animation. With no hands! (You believe that, don't you?)

Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 2:37 pm

The "Returned Mail" virus messages seem to have mysteriously gone down in number. It could be because it's the weekend, although I'm not entirely certain. (I'll just have to chalk it up to one of those small yet miraculous blessings which tend to grace one's life during it's more difficult moments.) Speaking of difficult moments, I spent the entire morning alternately learning and being driven insane by the Flash Tutorial I was working on. I think I now have a general idea of how Flash works, although much about the application remains sketchy. (Particularly, those parts of the tutorial which didn't come out right in spite of the fact that I did everything exactly as they told me to. Several times. Argh.)

*Sigh*. Somewhere along the line I took a brief break from my software cramming session to post all of what Kevin sent me of his Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness Thumbnail Theater I also went and posted Episode 24 of my Escaflowne Thumbnail Theater. Only two more episodes to go. And there was much rejoicing. Yay.

Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 1:06 pm

Hi y'all. Just dropping a little note to let you know I'm still breathing. I've spent the last week trying to sharpen my Fireworks/Dreamweaver skills and I actually managed to put a sample site together (which I will not link to on account of it's lameness. Even if I don't consider it too bad for a first try.) I've also been tweaking the Nadesico Thumbnail Theatre page and will hopefully get the Prince of Darkness TT up soon. (Mucho thanks to my patient friend Kevin for being so...um...patient.) I'm also working on Episode 24 of my Escaflowne Thumbnail Theatre, which I'm keen to finish despite my current state of hyper-busyness. (Geez. Amazing how much more work one has to do when one becomes unemployed).

I have a problem. I may be infected with a virus, but I'm not sure. Lately, everytime I've opened up Eudora, I've been finding about 50 e-mails with the words "Mail-Returned/ Unable to send" or variants thereof in the subject header. Strange thing is, all of them seem to have been sent to me by the same Anti-Virus software company. I'm certain all of these e-mails are viruses, and I've adjusted my security settings in Eudora to try and prevent virus invasion. I've also updated my VirusScan software and have run my computer through it time and time again, but to no avail. Nothing is found and the weird e-mails keep coming. Anybody out there got a clue as to what could be happening? I'm stumped. Any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated. (As would any Swedish chocolate, if you have any on hand.)

Well, that's it from me for now. Which is good, because anything more that I'd write would probably just consist of a lot of whining and woe-is-meing, which the world has more than enough of as it is, I'm sure.