little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

jumping on the big fat nerd wagon

So, uhm, I’ve changed this weblog around a little bit.

• This weblog uses Moveable Type now, thus emulating every single
  weblogger ever and jumping on a the big fat nerd bandwagon. It also features a mini-blog, which is a way to
  post technical links and stuff that people have forwarded to me but
  I hadn’t been able to think of anything witty to say to it.

• There is also a way to change the skin of LYD, if you don’t like
  how the website looks. If you notice carefully, you’ll notice that I now
  use a background pattern from squidfingers for
  the “Goodbye, Dignity” screen. Everyone seems to be using background patterns lately —
  remember when everyones weblogs were all minimalist and white and boring and shit, and
  web designers were all, “oooh! We’re so zen! Minimalism is the wave of the future!”

  Then the stock market crashed, people went to war and no one gave a fuck anymore. The End.

• Archives from the Blogger days are not online yet, mostly because there would be
  broken image and link locations.
  Patience, grasshopper.

• I have gotten rid of that cartoon character (Dexternie) that
  I’ve had at the top of the weblog for the past 2.5 years. Before
  people start yelling and screaming bloody murder, I have this to
  say: Move on.

  I knew it was time to remove the cartoon character when someone
  recognized my weblog at a party, came
  up to me in person and said, “OHMYGOD, YOU LOOK JUST LIKE THE
  CHARACTER ON YOUR WEBSITE!”

  Now, let’s think about this. Dexternie is a
  caricature of myself. They didn’t say the cartoon guy looks at me, but
  the other way around. So, people are saying that I look like
  something that is supposed to look like me, like a wacky animated
  chartoon character writing about his bizarre life and I was just a bad
  flesh-and-blood knock-off poser. Be like your cartoon! Dance, monkey, dance!

• Believe you me, I will be adding and changing more and more things
  to this website over the next couple of days, so bear with me.

Comments and suggestions appreciated.

I dig it.

welcome to the world of movabletype… now you’re in control. BRING THAT CARTOON BACK, I miss Dexternie already. *sob

Very sophisticated. I like Sultry Ernie up the top.

Good to see you back up and running!

I miss the cartoon, but I really like the photo in your banner.

I hope you put your “50 things about me” back up (and add 50 more) — most people’s put me to sleep, but I found yours fascinating and strangely touching. It actually inspired me to write my own!

Good job moving over to MT — it’s the bomb!

Oh my god. We were just IMing and you said “I just published LYD” and within one minute, after being offline for what, a month, there are already four comments. Amazing.

I still think the TV image looks like you’re doing something unmentionable behind the podium, though.

IT looks fantastic, and I think you will be much happier using MT. Now that you have joined the collective, and been assimilated, you will no longer be little, yellow or different.
I don’t miss the cartoon either.. It always made me jealous, cause I don’t have one
SMOOCH
Vince

I love it, Ernie…you sound not very happy, though. I hope things are going well for you.

It looks great Ernie, welcome back. It’s your site man, do what you want to do.

What, no Trackback goodness yet? What if someone wants to, um, ping ya?

Welcome back!

Yes. The use of CSS has definitely turned most of our sites into similar looking beasts.

Well… ‘cept I gots Dachshunds!!!

I do like it though Mr. E.

whats with the MT transition.. am i missing out too?
oh no!
wait.. no one reads my site Hope you are doing well these days..

g’day from down under!!! love what you have done with your site and looking forward to future posts. cheers !

I like it. And like someone already said, it’s your site -do what you want!

Great job! This looks more like the little-yellow-serious guy (which, i guess, you are also).

Discovered this site about 2 months ago, and somehow returning now back all the time.

br,
tm

p.s. my english stinks

He’s back! Woo!

I like the pic of the asian guy at the top.

YOU LOOK JUST LIKE HIM!!!!

ernie!

we’ve missed you so! it’s so great to see you back, sugar

That look on your face from “The Weakest Link” is priceless!

Welcome back Ernie! I like the new design.

Welcome back, buddy! The Web wasn’t the same without ya.

For the record - LYD *will* accept Trackback pings. It will list them at the end of each post, similar to plasticbag.org. At least I think so, anyway. I could have gotten things wrong.

Thank god you’re back. Personally like the juvvy hall, puke olive color but it screams for a background pattern (you know, like everyone else) Welcome back!

“Back to life, back to reality.” Welcome back!!! Your site looks great!

Ernie, you rock! I really dig your website

^_^

Mir

Welcome back, Ernie! We love you and the redesign!

my suggestion is as always

never ever date outside your race and being now you’re an MT transplant me thinks Mike needs to get on the ball eh?

much love you cragie boy!

*mwah*

welcome back, ernie.

You know, I thought I saw your caricature driving an SUV behind me the other day…

Hey I dig the new layout. A bit more formatting for the text in the comment popup but pretty damn good.

Have you thought about using Trackback?

You also have some XHTML validation snafus but I am just being a web bitch.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.littleyellowdifferent.com%2F

And I do miss cartoon Ernie.

Where are the naked picture galleries?

one suggestion, two words: porn links.

The small type of the permalinked date and comments is a mite too small on my Mac right now, but everything else looks wonderful.

I, too, will miss the caricature, but the photo of you grimacing on TV more than makes up for it.

Whoa… I’m locked in the office for a month working late hours, and come back to a complete change in all the blog sites… Dang! Nice work yo!

Like the new look…. love the fact that Dexternie is GONE…. I’ve so moved on….
D

I’ve chosen the “Weakest Link” skin because it makes me giggle. Welcome back, sweetie.

yay, you’re back!

That is A Lot of Tasty Links!

Yo Yo Yo this is a ping for Ernie. I had to view source to find this.

Hi Ernie… just wanted to say that the site looks great. I’ve missed reading your hilarious stories and laughing, um… *with* you.

Movable Type really is cool- I just started a few months ago with version 2.63. If you’re having trouble with the configuration, I’d be happy to help you.

Take care and happy blogging.

I love big fat nerd wagons. They’re my favourite kind of nerd wagons to jump on…

At least I’ve kept some Photoshopped images of TCG (the cartoon guy) on my site…

^^^^^^^^
shameless plug

Welcome back! I love the new look! I just wish I was nerdy enough to jump on the big fat nerd wagon. (that is as fun to say as it is to type) Instead I use a pre-made interface. *sigh*

THANK GOD YOU’RE BACK. I can slack off at work again.

welcome back darlin’. I’m jumping on the big fat nerd wagon with y’all, if that’s ok…

Very snazzy new look!

Hmm…minimalistic and white. Sounds a bit (a lot) like my blog.
Welcome to the world of movable type. You know that you love it, even if it is incredibly conformist and increasingly mainstream. Always look on the bright side: it may be conformist, but not nearly as much as Livejournal.

Cmon now. Minimalism is so retro it’s cool again.

Hmph.

And a big welcome to the cult fabulous world of MT.

wow, I like this erndawg! btw, big ups to j-note(s?) for the soul II soul thing, I think I heart you now. I was patiently waiting last night for you to get this thing online. Welcome back!

OMG! You’re back. I’m so happy. Now I can go on with *my* life.

I’ve yet to jump on the ‘big fat nerd bandwagon’. I’m still using Greymatter and considering shifting programs in the next few months.

I didn’t see it coming

One of my favorite blog reads from way back when, little. yellow. different. Has made the move to MT as well. Ernie is the last person I’d expect to move to MT and he has skinned his site as well….

site looks fantastic, but then again, i didn’t expect anything less. love the skins, i like the original best of all but i’m gonna have to use the gameshow skin for a couple of days since i never was able to catch you on the show. =)

Site does look cool, nice and uncluttered. Simple but not like… white (or fucking green and mauve). Nice.

Did you remember to say “baaaaah” as you made your first MT post? Just like a good sheep? Or are you more of the lemming type? Do lemmings make a sound?

As for cool things to add - oh baby, there are a TON of them. Let me know what you need and the ScriptyGoddess can hook you up!

I *smoosh* you, Ernie!!!

ernie’s sidebar is going great

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/...

Okay, now that I’ve discovered your archives, this post probably belongs here. Maybe this has something to do with the note above about the page not being valid XHTML.

This blog works just fine, if ugly, on Netscape 4.7 Mac but it crashes the
whole darned computer in IE 5 Win, at least the one at my gym. Yeah, the
computer crashes, restarts and checks the hard drive for errors. I am impressed. XHTML rules or else!