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Sep. 17th, 2005
So the server is back up, yay!
Of course I changed my email with LJ during the outage so I could keep track of things, therefore the first order of business was to change it back to my normal email address.
I'm not getting email from LJ.
So I go and force LJ to send another validation email. I do that about half a dozen times. No validation emails arrive.
I go log into my server (yay for shell accounts and SSH!) and go through my procmail filters. Nothing to mark LJ mail as spam in there but I whitelist LJ anyway.
Try having LJ mail me a validation a few more times.
Log back into my server and check my mail logs, nothing from LJ, not even something getting caught in the assorted server side spam filtering I have going.
Change my email with LJ back to my meowmail count and get a validation immediately.
It's not LJ.
It's not my filters or ISP.
Email the admin of my server. Discover that I need to have Thunderbird purge the old site certificates so I can actually send email. Poke around and find where it stores them and delete the old certs, accept the new ones, then send the email.
We're hoping it's just some lingering DNS cache issues and not the DSL provider.
So I find myself hoping I'll get eight or ten invalid validation emails in the next day or so.
*head!desk*
Of course I changed my email with LJ during the outage so I could keep track of things, therefore the first order of business was to change it back to my normal email address.
I'm not getting email from LJ.
So I go and force LJ to send another validation email. I do that about half a dozen times. No validation emails arrive.
I go log into my server (yay for shell accounts and SSH!) and go through my procmail filters. Nothing to mark LJ mail as spam in there but I whitelist LJ anyway.
Try having LJ mail me a validation a few more times.
Log back into my server and check my mail logs, nothing from LJ, not even something getting caught in the assorted server side spam filtering I have going.
Change my email with LJ back to my meowmail count and get a validation immediately.
It's not LJ.
It's not my filters or ISP.
Email the admin of my server. Discover that I need to have Thunderbird purge the old site certificates so I can actually send email. Poke around and find where it stores them and delete the old certs, accept the new ones, then send the email.
We're hoping it's just some lingering DNS cache issues and not the DSL provider.
So I find myself hoping I'll get eight or ten invalid validation emails in the next day or so.
*head!desk*
The Snood-Wig
Sep. 17th, 2005 02:53 pmI've been chatting with someone about cosplaying Kaede (from Inuyasha) and came up with this idea for her friend with lots of long dark hair.
( Diagram behind the cut )
The basic idea is that for a person with a lot of hair a wig might be a bit of a hassle. Since Kaede (and several other characters I can think of) ties her hair in a very low ponytail there's theoretically room for a snood (a cloth or net sack to hold a person's hair) above the tie.
Now if someone were cosplaying Kikyo and already had long dark hair (long in this case being sufficient to bind into a tail at the appropriate point) this is overkill. If their hair is dark and long enough then all they really need is a (possibly modified) Halo frame (if they don't want to cut fringe) and some wefted hair to match their own hair to add length to the ponytail.
Getting back to the snood-wig, it could also be used by someone with shorter hair if they wanted to have something lighter than a full wig (since even old lady anime characters have huge amounts of hair it seems). They could just add some stuffing to the snood (and possibly a small weight in the bottom to make the hair behave more naturally).
Disclaimer: I have not built a snood-wig so this is all theory based on my knowledge of things like wigs and sewing.
( Diagram behind the cut )
The basic idea is that for a person with a lot of hair a wig might be a bit of a hassle. Since Kaede (and several other characters I can think of) ties her hair in a very low ponytail there's theoretically room for a snood (a cloth or net sack to hold a person's hair) above the tie.
Now if someone were cosplaying Kikyo and already had long dark hair (long in this case being sufficient to bind into a tail at the appropriate point) this is overkill. If their hair is dark and long enough then all they really need is a (possibly modified) Halo frame (if they don't want to cut fringe) and some wefted hair to match their own hair to add length to the ponytail.
Getting back to the snood-wig, it could also be used by someone with shorter hair if they wanted to have something lighter than a full wig (since even old lady anime characters have huge amounts of hair it seems). They could just add some stuffing to the snood (and possibly a small weight in the bottom to make the hair behave more naturally).
Disclaimer: I have not built a snood-wig so this is all theory based on my knowledge of things like wigs and sewing.
