<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Ritchie Thai&#039;s Ramblings</title>
	<atom:link href="http://dozydagger.com/blog/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://dozydagger.com/blog</link>
	<description>Site updates and whatever else I feel like writing about.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:22:57 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Musical Stylings</title>
		<link>http://dozydagger.com/blog/2012/01/03/musical-stylings/</link>
		<comments>http://dozydagger.com/blog/2012/01/03/musical-stylings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ritchie.Thai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Content Updates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dozydagger.com/blog/?p=10</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been making music! I&#8217;ve updated the music page, and removed a lot of stuff that was particularly bad or didn&#8217;t work (i.e. the site I uploaded it to took it down or the MIDI didn&#8217;t play properly on this &#8230; <a href="http://dozydagger.com/blog/2012/01/03/musical-stylings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been making music! I&#8217;ve updated the music page, and removed a lot of stuff that was particularly bad or didn&#8217;t work (i.e. the site I uploaded it to took it down or the MIDI didn&#8217;t play properly on this computer).</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s some of the new stuff I&#8217;ve made:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="../music/shimmer-on.ogg">Shimmer On</a></li>
<li><a href="../music/space-travel.ogg">Space Travel</a></li>
<li><a href="../music/zone-of-infinity.ogg">Zone of Infinity</a></li>
<li><a href="../music/medical-leave.ogg">Medical Leave</a></li>
<li><a href="../music/distortion-field.ogg">Distortion Field</a></li>
<li><a href="../music/clear-as-glass.ogg">Clear as Glass</a></li>
</ul>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://dozydagger.com/blog/2012/01/03/musical-stylings/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Updates from 2011</title>
		<link>http://dozydagger.com/blog/2012/01/03/updates-from-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://dozydagger.com/blog/2012/01/03/updates-from-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ritchie.Thai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Content Updates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dozydagger.com/blog/?p=7</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[2011-11-29 &#8211; Updates Since Over a Year Ago I mentioned that I *have* made updates. I don&#8217;t feel like properly linking to everything right now or organizing everything, so I&#8217;ll just somewhat vaguely describe it. Stuff in unorganized isn&#8217;t meant &#8230; <a href="http://dozydagger.com/blog/2012/01/03/updates-from-2011/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>2011-11-29 &#8211; Updates Since Over a Year Ago</h3>
<p>I mentioned that I *have* made updates. I don&#8217;t feel like properly linking to everything right now or organizing everything, so I&#8217;ll just somewhat vaguely describe it.</p>
<p>Stuff in unorganized isn&#8217;t meant to stay there forever, but for now I have some new stuff in there. In unorganized, I have calculus-wub-exam.jpg which I made and think is hilarious. I have this whole setup that I say before showing people the picture and asking them to help me with question V. I also have a subdirectory in there called &#8220;hand-trumpet&#8221; with a bunch of clips of me blowing into my hand like a trumpet and trying to play some songs.</p>
<p><a href="../../unorganized/calculus-wub-exam.jpg">Calculus?</a></p>
<p>I have my song list on the front page now, which currently matches the one I keep on my local desktop.</p>
<p>If you go into music and then more music, there is a fair bit of music. Stuff in more music is supposed to migrate into music once I stop being lazy, but I might need to re-evaluate how I do things. It seems a bunch of my older songs have also disappeared. In terms of music, harmony-in-the-discord.ogg, sky-ride.ogg, versions-of-you.ogg, my-my-little.ogg are all new. Those are in order of how much I like them.</p>
<p><a href="../../more-drawings/rainbow-attack-colour-scaled.jpg">Rainbow Attack</a></p>
<p>On deviantART, I added &#8220;Applejack&#8217;s Shady Past&#8221; and &#8220;Read or Tolerate&#8221;. I like &#8220;Read or Tolerate&#8221; a lot. The other one is just somewhat amusing. In more drawings, I&#8217;ve also got bubbles-on-twilight.jpg, pinkie-knife-coloured.jpg, rainbow-attack-colour-scaled.jpg, and a bunch of doodles in the pony-sketches subdirectory. There are some other new things there, but I plan to remove them. Actually, some of the ones I mentioned will also be renamed or moved to deviantART.</p>
<p>And there&#8217;s some stuff I left out, but I don&#8217;t care about *those*. As can be seen, I haven&#8217;t done nothing in the past year. University&#8217;s time consuming. I still think about the games I want to make or the stories I want to tell. I&#8217;m still planning on making a game, and I&#8217;ve asked an old friend to work with me on one once there&#8217;s time.</p>
<p>But in a way, this site is just one of those sites made by people who think, &#8220;I wanna have a website.&#8221; It&#8217;s not like I didn&#8217;t make any content. I made content, but this site&#8217;s not focused, and I don&#8217;t really have anything special to draw people here. A lot of the people who create awesome content online don&#8217;t even have websites, so I don&#8217;t necessarily need one either. I just need to make something of quality. But I want a website, so I&#8217;m going to steer this website toward something useful, instead of this idealized concept I used to have of what this website would be once I got things rolling. If one day I do make something amazing that needs a website, the website can grow itself around that. Maybe this website won&#8217;t even be good enough for it. Maybe it&#8217;ll need its own website.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve gotten very wordy lately. Well, I&#8217;ve always been wordy, but I used to spend extra time shortening things. I do it less these days. I guess I have less time these days, or would rather spend that time doing other things. Maybe I just got into the habit after Facebook removed its word limit. It takes longer to write less. I&#8217;m out.</p>
<h3>2011-11-29 &#8211; I&#8217;m Alive!</h3>
<p>So it&#8217;s been a long time since I last updated. It&#8217;s been over a year. In reality, I have made updates, but they&#8217;ve been quiet unreported ones. As far as I know, nobody is actually visiting this site anyway, so it doesn&#8217;t matter that much.</p>
<p>That said, this whole website thing isn&#8217;t really going anywhere. I need to think about what I really want to do with this space and make better use of it.</p>
<p>Until I make that magical amazing game one day that everyone will love and come to this site for that I keep talking about, this is pointless. Back when I made this site, it was trickier to have an online precense, but now there are all sorts of blogs and whatnot.</p>
<p>The only people who really visited this site before was friend(s), but way more peole see my Facebook feed than visit my site. What&#8217;s the point of this site? Why does it exist?</p>
<p>Well, uploading files here is convenient. Even if I only show stuff to my friends on Facebook, I can still link to stuff on this site.</p>
<p>This is also useful for me personally, especially the song list. This site can be my home away from home.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also about time I started using WordPress here. I considered using a CMS once and then decided against it because I figured editing an HTML file isn&#8217;t all that annoying. After seeing all the Facebook posts I&#8217;ve made, having something a bit more user friendly clearly does increase my output: my inane sleep deprived output.</p>
<p>I had concerns about things being difficult to back up too. For now, I basically have a whole copy of the site locally and upload after I make changes. With this new system, I&#8217;d be making updates online and then making a local backup. That&#8217;s fine. The other annoying thing is that the backup would be an SQL dump, not a bunch of nice HTML files. That&#8217;s fine too. If I really wanted things to be in a more readable format, I could just import it all back into a local WordPress installation and write a script to make a bunch of text files or something.</p>
<p>So that&#8217;s a couple things to do. Rearrange the site to make it more of a home desktop away from home for my own use. Use it more as a place to hold content that I want to show off to people on sites like Facebook or forums or chats or whatnot, because nobody actually visits this site otherwise. Not until I make that super awesome amazing game I keep thinking I&#8217;ll make one day, anyway. Or webcomic. Or movie. Or song. Or story. Or whatever else. Also, I need to install WordPress (WordPress didn&#8217;t exist back then. Before, I was thinking Joomla or Mambo or something I&#8217;d write on my own.). It&#8217;ll make updating the site that much more convenient at a whim and fun.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://dozydagger.com/blog/2012/01/03/updates-from-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Here&#8217;s that Blog I Wanted</title>
		<link>http://dozydagger.com/blog/2012/01/03/heres-that-blog-i-wanted/</link>
		<comments>http://dozydagger.com/blog/2012/01/03/heres-that-blog-i-wanted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ritchie.Thai</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dozydagger.com/blog/?p=5</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This should be more convenient than editing HTML and uploading the files every time. It&#8217;s time to get blogging!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This should be more convenient than editing HTML and uploading the files every time. It&#8217;s time to get blogging!</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://dozydagger.com/blog/2012/01/03/heres-that-blog-i-wanted/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

