So last night I excitedly uploaded a bunch of new code to this here website.

But it didn't work.

In a frenzy, I quickly tried to delete the post where I had been flaunting my new features. But too late, it had already been picked up by my facebook notes, and cached by Google Reader.

Anyways, I HAD tested my changes in my local environment, and everything had worked fine. But whatever, I'm not bitter. Apologies to anyone who read the 'Mr. Mustard' post and got their hopes up. I'm looking at re-implementing the file upload capacity with "acts_as_attachment" (a rails plugin) instead of using "file_column" (another rails plugin). And this time, I have set up a mechanism to test that everything works before the feature goes on the front page.

I've decided to link my blog to facebook. Previously, I had resisted this, because I thought it would be the equivalent of spamming facebook. But it seems that nowadays facebook is doing a pretty good job of spamming itself, so whatever.

I'm also going to start posting songs on my blog here, in their own special section. Once I roll out that feature, I anticipate that I'll be aggressively promoting my blog, much more than I do now. So get ready!

I still think it's a good idea, but I'm not sure my choice of topic was a good one. I just don't think I'm interested enough in Harry Potter to write a five paragraph essay on him. Especially one with such a narrow topic. I tried writing an outline, but all I could come up with was "Harry's not an asshole just like most people aren't assholes. He had some rough spots growing up, but who doesn't? As Dumbledore puts it in OOTP, 'You were not a papmpered little prince, but as normal a boy as I could have hoped under the circumstances.'"

Actually, I think it's more of a convenient plot device than anything that Harry grew up with the Dursleys. The story is told largely from his point-of-view, and thus the reader gets the pleasure of 'discovering' the magical world along with Harry. It's the same wonderful feeling you get when you watch The Matrix for the first time.

On a completely unrelated note, I REALLY think that <i> and <b> and their kind should be re-introduced into HTML, simply for the fact that in online sites which allow 'some HTML' in profiles and comments, they will rarely allow for <span>s. And for good reason.