Friday the 13th!

While tearing off the page on my desk calendar this morning, I noticed the date.

Random memory

I remember when I got the invite code to join LiveJournal (back in the day, they were still required), and the person whom I asked for the code told me I was welcome to use one to create a free account, but that I'd probably be happier with a paid one (or something like that; this was about five years ago).

I think I got a paid account three months later or so, and have had one ever since. (Though the Paid Account Fairy who occasionally visits active support volunteers and my later purchase of a permanent account both helped to make the money I actually needed to spend every month/quarter/year more manageable.)

Software archaeology

So, I made a kanji mood theme several years ago. I also packaged it up as a ZIP file for people to create their own mood theme from.

Unfortunately, a bunch of moods were missing from the ZIP file, moods where I created specific icons rather than letting them inherit the icon from their parent, after my first batch of icons.

Now I moved my mood theme icons to a different server a while ago... and thought that the ZIP file was complete, so I just extracted that. Now several moods were missing, especially "geeky" which I tend to use a fair bit.

I dug that one up from the bowels of web.archive.org and/or Google's cache (I don't remember which), but thought the others were lost forever.

But just today, while fiddling around with the mood theme editor thingy, I found that the icons which still pull from the old URL still work! Apparently, I didn't delete the icons from there, which I thought I had.

So I recovered them from there, downloaded them to my local hard drive (and added them to SVN for good measure), and created a new ZIP file. Then I uploaded them to the new server and made a new tarball there.

Phew. (Incidentally, "relieved" (42) is one of the mood pics I recovered this way.)