Give me a reason to believe
a reason to believe in me
beyond a world of broken hearts
so you and I may never part.
Give me a life to live and lead
open my eyes and help me see
the good, the beautiful, the pure
the brighter side of this world.

Give me a way to make this last
when so many thoughts are blurring past.
Hopes and wishes torn with pain,
help me mend them whole again.
Tell me, will you be the one
who will be there even when hope is gone?
Are you my reason to be,
my reason to live and believe?

I fell from my place in the sky
from my place in the heavens high.
Without my wings I fall to
the earth and away from you.

Within the earth’s shadows black,
to the heavens I look back
at the glow of ten-thousand stars
to the light of where you are.

Flightless now without you
I proceed on this cold earth to
begin my journey to places far
following you, the brightest star.

Cities to cities far away,
nowhere do I stop to stay.
But nowhere am I to find
a road that leads back to the sky.

Yet I press on through the night
even if you may fade from sight.
I’ll find my way back to where you are
as I journey on beneath the stars.

Well…as of the post back from who knows when, I mentioned something about releasing photos I shot over summer and it later seemed that I forgot.  In a way, I almost did :D.  But thankfully, I’m starting the release….now! Here goes:

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More will come soon.

~DC

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Last week I announced that I have been working on a Oxygen theme for WinRAR. Although I predicted last week that I may finish the theme in a few days, I have been delayed. For this, I apologize.

However, this theme is now complete. It is a 48×48 px WinRAR theme. Again, the icons are by KDE and the theme is simply a compilation of the icons into a WinRAR theme.

Please go here to download.

~DC

Apparently I overestimated the time needed to complete the Oxygen theme for WinRAR. I have already completed adding nearly all of the icons to the theme. Here is what it looks like as of now:

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The RAR file icons look like this:

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Now, I just need to do some minor tweaking and then make sure everything is well. This means that you can be looking at the first release in the next few days. So stay tuned.

~DC

p.s. this also means that I will create yet another category: Customization.

Autumnal lament for many days gone by as life is far too short.

Although it is not officially autumn yet, I have applied the Haiku.Autumnal theme on the main site. This is partly due to that “summer” is symbolically over for me, however, more so that I am about to make a series of improvements to the Haiku theme series, in essence, working on a refresh of the series, Haiku 1.1.0. As of now, the Haiku.Press theme is the most up to date flavor of the theme. For the others, I will need to edit the colors, especially in the Smarty Paginate areas, as well as clean up the code and the files.

~DC

p.s., I wrote the Haiku poem as I was writing this post. Critique would be appreciated.

As a follow-up to my previous post: ҉, I found that the reverse text hack I used in that post somehow affects Google as well:

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As you can see, the reverse text hack affected the text outside the excerpt on the Google search result.

I also found that the ҉ hack is most effective when you are viewing with Mozilla Firefox. When I viewed my ҉ post in Internet Explorer, some of the text that was reversed in FF was displayed normally. [As a sidenote, ҉ is the symbol that is occasionally seen preceding a reverse text string. I am unsure of when or why it appears. Somebody told me that the ҉ symbol means something but he did not know what it meant.]

~DC

For quite a while, I have been amazed by the beauty of the icons and artwork of the Oxygen Project. Although I know that it is not complete, I am quite dismayed that there is not yet an effort to port Oxygen to Windows. Thus I am going to take initiative and begin to port Oxygen to Windows. While my system resource hacking skills are still rudimentary, I will begin by creating a Oxygen icon theme for the archiver program WinRAR. I have so far finished the icons on the toolbar:

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I will now need to find out how to convert PNG image files into Windows icon files in order to complete the theme.

After this theme, I plan to modify simpler programs first such as Notepad before diving into modding the more crucial resource files. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

~DC