My name is darth ghost. I am your favorite polymath! You love me or you hate me. You like me or you despise me. There is no inbetween. In any case I am the favorite and greatest of all time. I know in me hides the greatest writer of all times. I am the Ali of fiction, the Mason of Art and the Evil Kanival of literature all-in-one. Only when I reach my millionth word online will I be able to take myself serious as a writer. I love Poetry, stories and Redemption. I always pay my bills in Spiritual liquid as well as in cash. Still I have no credit card. The bank clerks won’t give me one.
Welcome onboard Ulysses V -The Ultimate gateway to the Stars –The Texas Space Port for Your Soul. I am your Preacher Immoralus who believes in God and many other things, especially on Sunday. It’s the Fifth dimension ever conceived by mankind that you have accessed. Right now you are deep in it. I can tell you that right through the Internet. That’s why they call me darth ghost.
It’s -thirhteen hundred hours, Greenwich mean time plus one -from the modernized and industrial merchant country of The Netherlands, from Amsterdam to be precise, on the fourth floor of my modest apartment right on Sea level, that I am broadcasting today. Thank you for coming onboard. Thank you for visiting Ulysses V. It’s always a thrill to have new readers reading my stuff. You have found the Prophet of the Internet and future Emperor of Texas.
Next month I will publish the amount of unique visitors I get to my site. It’s for dedicated readers only. So not that many. Still quite a few more than I thought. Where are they all coming from? I do socialize on quite a few networks and increasing at that -looking out for readers and the maid of my dreams – the Ultimate maid.
I scroll through profiles and intimately check out your characteristics when you are of the female gender. I am very difficult. I don’t want to be buried alive. Read on!
MY favorite actrice is Ellen Barkin. That doesn’t mean I only go for blonds just to give you an indication. My last ‘wifes’ were all different and all terrible and have made my life hell. So there is no difference in that. They were all suicidal, greedy and selfish type of women. Types that suck you out so badly that you wonder what barren Land hit you the next morning upon awakening. That doesn’t mean I didn’t bother for them. Still people are people and people suck real badly, especially some of them. Animals in that sense are far ahead of us.
The future Empress of Texas will be modest, unselfish, sexy, lovely, unique, abiding and most of all intelligent. Her main tasks will be comprised of cleaning, cooking, some secretarial work and some serious stuff! All this duty free. Basically all you have to do is let me write and make sure I can write more and write more and more and deliver pizzas if necessary when cash is lacking. As long as I can write. For the rest I don't give an inch.
Outside the weather is cloudy, cloudy and more clouds. The temperature is around 54 degrees Fahrenheit. Above me, it looks like some good old fashioned uncategorized Drizzle clouds right through the core of the day. It’s a humid afternoon reaching above 80%. The wind is blowing from the North and turning North-West at times, and turning even more, sometimes to the South. It’s some rain with intervals and more rain that is making the day. Make the best of your day ‘cos tomorrow never comes.
Meanwhile it’s not soaked or a dry day in course. Visibility is about 6 miles from where I can see, looking out on the North-East in the distance. No seagulls around. There used to be more. See A Wake Up Synopsis. Number 5.
I didn’t have much time lately. Had to do some tests and things like that for the social services of this country. These people are weird. They really seem to think I can’t work. They are trying to make a point out of it. It’s not my fault that I have a 220IQ when properly woken. That’s the electricity voltage around here I am talking about!
My only problem is I have a nine year gap in my curriculum. Doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing nothin’ all that time. The contrary is true. I am always busy, always on the run, always, always something to do. These social security people are really weird. From which Planet cometh thou? Definitely not this Galaxy. I won’t let myself be boxed in. I have got much too much life experience that I want to share and will share.
The Netherlands is in that sense a country that doesn’t like its citizens to take any kind of responsibility. They don’t like people who can think for themselves. it’s not like in the U.S. where competitiveness is appreciated not to be the best, just to be an improvement to The Worlds in general, whatever that is, in whatever way you can. It’s the opposite of the U.S. around here. It’s a shame how they let people rot on the social services. That you are an Artist doesn’t mean you can’t work. On top of that it’s not only the social security people who think like that. So do many of the employers. That’s the main mentality these days are possessed with. They want to categorize you.
These are all, old categories invented by the female gender in order to minimize their pain in Life. They don’t want to see you on the job ‘cos they get stimulated badly.
You can read all about it in my apoplectic apocalyptic work of Art called Old junk new junk. The categories that the female gender have invented will eventually be the downfall of man, mankind, humanity and the Planet. The female gender is the reason for the existence of the mechanical world view. It all started when the male gender started listening to the female gender. The female gender is only concerned with procreation and cannot think for the better of the group. That’s why the Planet is slowly been run down. The future of the Planet can only be ensured by obedient and caring loving maids that do not question the simple basics of Nature. Never reason with the female gender. She only has one craving. That’s to carry your child. If she cannot achieve to that goal, she will make as much destruction as possible around you. The female gender must be Forced back to her loving obedient caring nature which takes care of her spouse and makes sure he is an improvement to The Worlds. That's not so difficult. Women emancipation movements are a disgrace to humanity in general and make more victims than happy women.
Let’s get back on topic. I always get carried away. This entry is about my new design called Dark Typewriter. It’s the new layout for my site. Hereunder you can see the old template designed by Douglas Bowman called Dark Minima and adapted by the Blogger team to Minima Black. Already I had chosen different fonts. Still it’s a very good design.
I upgraded Dark Minima/Minima Black to last a little longer. The original design by Douglas Bowman is really good. However it is a little outdated now. My new name for it is Dark Typewriter(DT).
Basically it’s meant to look Oldskool and still be able to comply with the sharing networks and use the latest grills of Google and other places. It’s meant to last a little while. It’s meant to look ASCII kind of style, not flashy or anything like that.
I tweaked the original interface of the old template. It’s already been done of course. You can download a three way or four way template ready made. I did it my way -the hard way! I actually bothered to see what was under the hood of Google’s Blogger engine and how to communicate with it. Well, more or less. I also assumed a lot of things.The engine is quite an achievement on itself. Google’s Blogger is quite good, free and getting better all the time. My template has more variables than the ones you can download and can be heavily customized.
Basically the template is an XML file that speaks to the Blogger engine in a simplified language. That’s the whole point of the XML file. You don’t need to talk in machine language. You use an interpreter's jargon that communicates with a part of the engine. My template has about 15 new variables in it plus many other adaptations. All you have to do is declare them and execute them, in the code within the template, which I of course have done, else you wouldn't be reading this. The main difference with the old template is that you can choose fonts, colors and sizes in three different wrappers plus many other minor important tweaks, without having to change the entries. Some of them can be customized through the interface. Some you have to do manually. To achieve that I looked how they did it in the newly released templates and compared code.
It’s thanks to my BASIC and Python and HTML scripting that I could do that. It’s also just a question of comparing code. That’s the main thing. Once you understand the basics of programming. You can adapt yourself to any language. Even if it's just through an interpreter. It’s just advance HTML scripting.
Basically it comes to this. You can add variables to it and make wrappers at high speed plus many other commands that you can use. You never talk directly to the engine. Scripting languages are based on BASIC kind of programming languages with easier graphical commands. They are JavaScript type of languages which is just BASIC adapted to webpages with much more internal memory.
So in other words the XML file speaks a simplified language through an interpreter to Google’s Blogger engine. Probably a series of executables linked to a series of libraries on their servers. Well, what else?
It’s not that complicated at all and could easily be reproduced. I always think if they would upgrade the BASIC .EXE file which is tiny to be able to have more internal memory, you could easily program an engine like Blogger’s through it. A long time ago I programmed in QBASIC a word processor which is much more complicated than a blog. The main QB file is 272kb. That’s really nothing. Its only shortcoming is that you cannot DIM much.
Bill Gates was not crazy when he said:’No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer’ in the early seventies or something like that. It's all contested of course if he actually said that. He just forgot that it’s all about RAM and it’s exactly that which would need increasing. Without multimedia and just text based application he was right. He should have said the opposite. You can understand that he got it wrong. The main idea he got right. The reason for the increase in RAM is that the memory is used for multimedia. So they have to DIM much more. Programs can be written on a tiny .EXE file like QBASIC. It’s ideally suited for webapplications, if it had been upgraded. BASIC is still used in mobile phones for menus just like Blogger’s entries basically. Bill Gates is also quoted for:'The internet is just a passing fade'. This however is unlikely unless The End of the times are reaching.
Also I added a couple of gadgets. As few as possible. You can translate directly the page from within the blog for example. Or share it through the net. It’s all very easy on this blog. Also sharing to Facebook, Feedburner and Twitter is now possible. On the surface there is almost no difference with the old template except that it’s Three Ways. Still the user can go any direction with it. It’s as he wishes. It doesn’t at all have to look like my blog. To improve it more would only make the original concept lost.
Google's new templates were not to my liking. I thought the old ones were more subtle. Of course that’s just a question of Oldskool or new Oldskool templates. Not really much difference in Skools. So better stick to the old ones. That’s why I bothered to upgrade dark minima to Dark Typewriter. My new name for the template.
If you are into bogging and think this design is good, you can download it here. It will be constantly upgraded as I make some minor changes. Yours doesn’t at all have to look like my blog. Eventually it will be 4 columns I think. I don’t have time right now and also I miss writing new stuff most. You can change almost anything in it through the interface or by changing minor code. Just search for relevant subjects to that end in any search engine for that and adapt the code. All you need is a bit of HTML experience. I you can make a simple website then adding variables to Blogger is just expanding your mind.
As I finish it, so will the template be upgraded. It will always look like the blog you are seeing at this moment in front of you and can be found under the label Dark Typewriter. The .XML will always be reflecting the blog you have in front of you.
This blog is about writing not computers. Still it helps to make it more enjoyable for the reader. Also don’t forget to share my blog. I am always thrilled to have new readers. Next month I will publish how many unique visitors I get. It’s more than I thought. Where are they all coming from? You can email darth ghost at his spam box to start with. It’s written in my profile. I do answer emails when I have time.
Thank you for reading my stuff. I love to write and to share and to read other people’s stuff as well, which I haven’t done enough lately. Gotta get back right into it.
The weather forecast ahead of its time in case I don’t manage another entry just before midnight. A quick check at my window gives us this result:
Tomorrow the 21th of June 2010, Amsterdam weather should be a little warmer. The temperature around noon should rise to 65 degrees Fahrenheit, the wind blowing from the North with quite some humidity. Looks like it’s gonna rain quite a bit, but less than today! All by all it’s should be an OK day. Nothing special and definitely not enough sun. Your plants, gardens, and balconies, however will appreciate it. Visibility is difficult to predict. Don’t forget to come back every day for the weather forecast as I get back to writing.
Tonight probably no poem just before midnight. If you are into Poetry don’t forget to read some of mine on everypoet.net. The latest ones are unfinished. Still they are worth reading. Also there are many other great Poets there.
This has been darth ghost broadcasting on this Godly Sunday all the way from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, wishing you a very pleasant day. Thank you for visiting Ulysses V –The Ultimate Gateway to the Stars -The Texas Space Port for Your Soul. Thank you for coming onboard. Don’t forget to tell your friends about my blog. Its location is Google Webservers: http://benoitduval.blogspot.com. God Bless &See ya around.
