Software archaeology

[pne]

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.)

Comments

[afuna]

Yay! I love your mood theme. Glad to see it complete :-)

[pne.livejournal.com]

At least, it's now (as far as I can tell) as complete again as it was at the end of September 2004 :)

One could probably add a few more moods, but I'm fairly satisfied with it now.

Chinese hànzì mood theme

[pne.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could do a Chinese one?

Some of the characters are Japanese-specific simplified forms, and some have different meanings in the two languages.

There is this one (http://www.blurty.com/moodlist.bml?moodtheme=9) on Blurty, but I don't know how good the translations are.

Re: Chinese hànzì mood theme

[afuna]

Hmmm, I'm not actually familiar with all the moods/characters that were used. (Some of them I haven't been exposed to before :-))