It was a friends 20th birthday last night, the theme was futuristic! I think I went a little over board!

tehe. The worst thing about going out is seeing someone wearing the same outfit as you - its even worse if its the same hair! There were some strange outfits going on last night, some of the other themes were super heroes, escaped mental patients, doctors and there were a few other ones. I love it when everyone looks stupid! I did feel stupid walking home in a cape though. I soon warmed up though.

I must also remember to tell you I’ve now been made an admin at UK Webmaster Forums, Why anyone would trust me in a position of power I don’t know!

I’m waiting for you all to say “I told you so” to this post. I’m back to Wordpress. Before you all assume expression engine must be terrible though, let me tell you it isn’t.

My reasons for switching back
I found I understood ee quite well, out of all the cms systems I looked at it goes up there with Wordpress as having one of the easiest templating systems to use. The idea of having ‘weblogs’ is genius and if you think about it there is so much potential for them as ee treats them as data. You can also completely customise the fields each weblog has.

Why did I switch back? Permalinks. If I’d started this site with ee then it’d be fine but I couldn’t get the permalink structure to work. I mentioned weblogs before each has a name, eg blog so all your urls go to /blog when your dealing with the posts, then there’s the template name which my ‘pages’ were using all in all it got very irritating having an extra /blog or /templategroupname on my permalink structure - add to that the posts had /blog/comments on their permalinks I just couldn’t wait to get rid of it!

I’m sure I could have just redirected with 301 but as someone (eventually) pointed out on the forums thats a complicated way of doing things and as the other method was no where to be found I’d rather go crawling back to familiarity begging for forgiveness!

Thats the other issue with expression engine, its paid, although the core version is free the support staff are always going to give priority to paying customers so thread replies were slow. I’ll miss that I was treated with some respect though. Unlike on the Wordpress forums

The core version is also majorly lacking in spam protection, theres akismet but we all know one spam protector isn’t enough.

I’m sure I’ll use expression engine for sites again in the future, but for an already existing site with a somewhat established permalink structure its just not feasable.

So without further adue I introduce eruanna.net v58! All lovely and organised, feel free to criticise :)

Something to keep you amused this sunny Saturday!

Mark and I (the so called perfect relationship) have kind of broken up - I say kind of because we’re still having sex! This is my selfish way of keeping him until he’s less of a moody cunt. (his words!) He says the relationship got too emotional which neither of us do very well - but he was the one pushing all the lovey dovey stuff. So really he’s screwed himself over on this one. The thing that did it for me though was him saying he was gonna go out last friday then saying he wasn’t going or saying he’ll definitely go on wednesday but then saying I’d rather go out with my mates - really make syou feel appreciated even though hes spent every other night and day that week with his mates. Add to that since we got back to uni he’s hardly touched me and his body language has been terrible towards me - everyones picked up on it. It went from him not being able to keep his hands off me to not even hugging me back - thats the most upsetting thing at all.

Apparently me being depressed is bringing him down - its his aggressiveness towards anything I say thats making me say mean things to him which get him down.

I know I nagged about the whole why wont you touch me thing - but I’m well within my rights (not only cos I’m a woman!) just think how you’d feel.

Dont send lovey dovey I’m sorry comments - I had the worst bits the last two weeks, now I’m looking forward to next wednesday where I intend to make lots of new ‘friends’. Yet I still have the (fucking awesome) sex with mark! Yes! Feel free to bitch about men though - I’m all for it!

I’m actually even happier today because a friend of mine text me. She’s not spoken to me in weeks and thats the best thing of all in my opionion! She still cares!

Its definitely the season for breakups - we count 4 so far!

I’d actually forgotten I had a website! I can’t say that I’ve been busy, I had tuesday and wednesday off!

I started back at uni on Monday, straight into the c# code - we did the theory last term - so now its time to do some programming! I do miss programming, probably why I enjoyed the matlab so much - at least you have someone to ask if you get stuck, unlike learning a new language online where you (usually) get snide n00b comments!

Today I had a 7 hour Maya Lab, my eyes are burning! We modelled a polygon face using polygon planes - could it be anymore long winded! - modelling with nurbs is SO much easier (and quicker!)! We’re gonna be animating soon - our final animation is worth 80% of the module - fun fun! I hope they like my rabbit monster! (we have to model a monster!)

Worse thing about the lab was the image references - I dont like staring at some poor woman in her underwear for 7 hours! Though I suspect the male population liked it a lot!

More lectures tomorrow then two nights of going out! I’m not in the mood for going out much at the moment - I’d rather wait till its warmer outside, its deathly cold here, I nearly got blown away in the wind today - scary stuff!