tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31145652011-04-21T16:21:05.596-04:00Notes from the UnderworldThe blog of Persephone Yavanna the Entwife, UnInitiated UnHighPriestess of the <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/tucots/index.html"> UnCoven of the Solitaries</a> <br><br> <IMG SRC="http://cgi.boingdragon.com/count/theentwife/3.gif" WIDTH=114 HEIGHT=35> <br><br>Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comBlogger1481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-88551569211217466192007-02-21T21:26:00.000-05:002007-02-21T21:30:07.587-05:00Since Blogger forced me to convert this blog to their new system a few days ago, nothing is working right -- the template won't display correctly (even though it's one of Blogger's own classic standard ones!) and the archives are no longer available to anyone visiting the page.I have therefore moved this blog to a new home on LiveJournal:Notes from the Underworld (at LiveJournal)If Blogger ever Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1096183754085035992004-09-26T03:26:00.000-04:002004-09-26T03:29:14.086-04:00Added a few web comics to the Links page. Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1084264842286923802004-05-11T04:21:00.000-04:002004-05-11T04:40:42.286-04:00Figured out a way to add a counter to my LiveJournal. I'm using backdate to create a future entry so the counter will always show up at the top of my recent entries page. Go me!Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-107649922064701682004-02-11T06:33:00.000-05:002004-02-11T06:35:28.233-05:00Revamped my profile page with a bit more about me, so it's a bit less blah than it used to be. (It also now links to all my blogs -- including this one . . . ) What? You didn't know I had a personal profile page? Well, I have to admit I hid it two link-levels in from the main UnCoven homepage -- I'm a bit shy you see -- only those folks who look for it will find it . . . Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1073538538212499682004-01-08T00:08:00.000-05:002004-01-08T00:10:12.013-05:00The UnCoven hit count has registered more than 10,000 visitors -- 10,009 to be exact. HOORAY!!!!! I built traffic, yes I did!!Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1070465025417139502003-12-03T10:23:00.000-05:002003-12-03T10:25:52.076-05:00The Voice of the Spirits and Persephone's Personal Playlist MP3 stations are no more since MP3.com went bye-bye as of today. They had been bought by CNET which for some reason didn't buy their database of songs uploaded by various artists for their fans to download freely. The music library went offline -- I don't know if it still exists somewhere or if everything has been deleted. Personally, IPersephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1069418837906352722003-11-21T07:47:00.000-05:002003-11-21T07:47:44.000-05:00I created a Crescendo plugin installer page since the Crescendo site is down. Nobody is able to get there to download a plugin, so I uploaded the relevant files from my hard drive (see? being a packrat can be a VIRTUE!!) to the UnCoven site so now visitors can fully enjoy the site, aurally as well as visually . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1067377126196978712003-10-28T16:38:00.000-05:002003-10-28T16:38:45.213-05:00Aimoo seems to be down, so now nobody can get to the public messageboard -- grump, grump . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1067067067476747012003-10-25T03:31:00.000-04:002003-10-25T03:31:07.043-04:00Updated the Pagan Community Calendar page to reflect this year's Samhain/Halloween/Celtic New Year's events. It would be nice, though, to have more than just a few days notice of events -- I need time to post stuff & visitors to the site would appreciate some advance notice too, I'm sure -- grump, grump . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1066285499269666152003-10-16T02:24:00.000-04:002003-10-16T02:24:59.090-04:00I just discovered FortuneCity deleted all the PaganFiles it had taken sooooo looooong to upload to their site -- #$@&%*#$@%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I have to re-upload EVERYTHING all over AGAIN -- double @#%$&*$#@$%!!!!!!!!Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1063822124475650982003-09-17T14:08:00.000-04:002003-09-17T14:08:44.470-04:00Added an upcoming open event to the Pagan Community Calendar and Upcoming Open Events pages -- an outing to the Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park. This event is fast becoming an UnTradition, like our legendary bowling parties . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1063165240568734032003-09-09T23:40:00.000-04:002003-09-09T23:40:40.610-04:00I'm feeling somewhat cranky about that Christian site I'd mentioned in my 5/16 post re-evangelizing my site's visitors through one of my guestbooks. I've deleted the new entry already & am considering deleting the original entry also now. I'd kept it up since I'd found it amusing but doing it again is just obnoxious behavior. I decided to sign HIS site's guestbook with my usual blurb about the Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1063017428967689452003-09-08T06:37:00.000-04:002003-09-08T06:37:08.896-04:00Bravenet has gone back to offering graphic-style counters (yay!) so I've been busy updating all the codes on the site.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1062459837711289112003-09-01T19:43:00.000-04:002003-09-01T19:43:57.763-04:00Added a few more topic categories to the UnCoven public messageboard after posting a nonsense message just to keep the board alive. (Hopefully soon those types of messages will no longer be necessary . . .)Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1062456622550409352003-09-01T18:50:00.000-04:002003-09-01T18:50:22.600-04:00The Aimoo public messageboard I'd created at the end of June has been unaccessible throughout most of August since there hadn't been any posts to it during July & the Aimoo system had shut it down as a dead board. After LOTS of email-tag with Aimoo support I've got it up & running again. So go post something so I don't have to go through this again, OK?Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1062061982147466412003-08-28T05:13:00.000-04:002003-08-28T05:13:51.853-04:00Created a page that displays the current moon phase & added a few upcoming events to the community calendar.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1061287559732836362003-08-19T06:05:00.000-04:002003-08-19T06:11:31.003-04:00I've been signing up with a lot of "web cliques" recently as a way of increasing traffic to my site, especially the various blogs I write. So now you know why my DeadJournal's sidebar looks a bit more . . . crowded . . . than it did before. Build traffic, build traffic, build traffic . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1058331629693919742003-07-16T01:00:00.000-04:002003-07-16T01:00:29.570-04:00The counter is now at more than 8000 -- yay! (The only good bit of news with respect to the Bravenet counters . . .)Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1058331341180709812003-07-16T00:55:00.000-04:002003-07-16T00:57:46.136-04:00Bravenet redid a lot of its webmaster services & changed its coding, so I had to edit the new code into the site for visitors to be counted. I'm pretty underwhelmed by the new design -- the counters are now completely FUGLY!! I'll probably put in a new counter service -- most likely from BoingDragon. I also can't back up the guestbook anymore -- joy . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1057653903780939682003-07-08T04:45:00.000-04:002003-07-08T05:11:02.850-04:00Added a few links to the Links page (including one to a cool pagan online comic) & registered www.uncoven.net before someone else does. I also "blogchalked" Diary of a Gardening Goddess & my DeadJournal so they're more likely to be spidered by the big commercial search engines.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-105680109464108002003-06-28T07:51:00.000-04:002003-06-28T07:58:03.800-04:00There is now a public messageboard for the UnCoven site. It has quite a few categories -- several dealing with the intersection of paganism and the rest of the world and a whole bunch that are for discussions of particular pantheons. I may add to the list of categories in the future but it's good enough for now . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1056696690477261542003-06-27T02:51:00.000-04:002003-06-27T02:53:33.560-04:00Created a link exchange page.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-1055873111934038702003-06-17T14:05:00.000-04:002003-06-17T14:05:11.953-04:00Decided to buy a few domain names -- www.uncoven.com and www.uncoven.org -- before someone else decides to take them.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-951504482003-06-01T08:19:00.000-04:002003-06-01T08:19:26.503-04:00I tweaked some of the coding for my GeoCities site to make it look a bit better. I really don't like their page editor -- it sucks up my compute's resources & is a headache to use compared to the Angelfire editor. Growl . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-951492202003-06-01T06:56:00.000-04:002003-06-01T07:14:52.000-04:00I'm feeling a bit cranky -- my Dave's Garden site/journal is only visible on the web if I become a subscriber to the site -- it's not a free feature. I'd added a few more things but now I'm re-thinking whether I want to bother adding anything else. I'd signed up for the site since I thought I could keep an online garden journal there that anyone surfing my site could view -- that was the point asPersephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-950766012003-05-30T08:04:00.000-04:002003-05-30T08:04:47.660-04:00Added a few plants to my Dave's Garden site/journal -- I have a LOT more to add . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-950356332003-05-29T10:50:00.000-04:002003-05-29T11:05:58.000-04:00Updated my Awards page with my newest award -- the Golden Web Award for 2003-2004. I feel so proud . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-949328482003-05-27T05:38:00.000-04:002003-05-27T05:49:36.000-04:00Created a gardening site/journal at Daves' Garden that will be part of my overall gardening site. Unlike my Diary of a Gardening Goddess blog, this site allows me to establish a database of the plants in my garden, so visitors will be able to find out what plants I am growing, including which cultivars I have. I can also upload photos of my plants, if I so choose. I've been planning to make a Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-945289982003-05-18T03:57:00.000-04:002003-05-18T04:34:22.000-04:00Ye gods and little fishes! The available web editors for my AOL page reek right royally!!! I'd accessed them in order to upload a graphic for my DeadJournal that wouldn't be a broken link when remote-loaded. Easy Designer is anything but easy if you want to get something nicely centered and 1-2-3 Publish has almost no way to customize things. My only alternative to these crappy HTML editor Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-945251302003-05-18T01:20:00.000-04:002003-05-18T01:30:58.000-04:00Added a BoingDragon counter to my DeadJournal so I could keep track of how many visitors are coming to this site & reading this more personal blog of mine. It took a little longer to add this counter since I had to create a custom style, edit it, then apply it before my snoozing dragon would appear.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-945217922003-05-17T23:33:00.000-04:002003-05-17T23:51:39.000-04:00Added BoingDragon counters to Diary of a Gardening Goddess and Notes from the Underworld since I'm curious as to whether anyone is actually reading my blogs or not. At least this way I'll know how many people are visiting those pages now . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-944384672003-05-16T04:28:00.000-04:002003-05-16T04:59:11.000-04:00The UnCoven homepage counter is currently at 7516, so there have been about 2500 visitors since the end of October -- I could be wrong, but I think people like my site . . . Or at least some people -- at the end of April someone from a Christian site called Dokimos signed the UnCoven guestbook with a rather non-ecumenical/interfaith-oriented message, evangelizing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. At Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-942017112003-05-12T09:44:00.000-04:002003-05-12T09:59:28.000-04:00Linked The Voice of the Spirits to the Uncoven homepage and added a song ("The Heart of Fangorn" by Brobdingnagian Bards) to Persephone's Personal Playlist. I also added dragon counters from BoingDragon.com to both pages -- I tried to add my usual Bravenet counters but the MP3.com site doesn't allow JavaScript so I used the dragon ones since they're remote-loading GIFs -- plus they're cute & I'vePersephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-940478532003-05-09T08:38:00.000-04:002003-05-12T09:58:26.000-04:00I've added quite a few songs to The Voice of the Spirits -- more than 80 so far. It's got everything from Gothic and "Darkwave" to Celtic and Native American tracks, with a goodly number of instrumental pieces as well as comic songs in styles from "high Ren Faire" to boogie-woogie sprinkled throughout. You can literally listen to it for hours . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-939667042003-05-07T23:05:00.000-04:002003-05-12T09:57:23.000-04:00Added songs to both The Voice of the Spirits & Persephone's Personal Playlist -- it takes a while to do this so the current playlists aren't terribly long at the moment . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-938524672003-05-06T05:28:00.000-04:002003-05-06T05:30:17.000-04:00Hooray! My new posts to Diary of a Gardening Goddess are now showing! For quite a while the latest entry visible was from August of 2002 -- there was some kind of template error. I'd tried fixing it before but no luck -- I wrote to Blogger support & didn't hear back from them but today when I tried to fix it again (by choosing a new template then switching back to my previous template choice) itPersephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-932327532003-04-25T06:34:00.000-04:002003-05-12T09:56:19.000-04:00Created a "radio station" at MP3.com for the UnCoven site -- it'll be called The Voice of the Spirits & include whatever pagan-oriented tracks MP3.com allows me to include. I also created another station for my own personal favorite tracks called (at least for now) Persephone's Personal Playlist -- it'll probabably have lots of Bach & other music from the baroque & before, that's for sure!Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-930353072003-04-22T04:40:00.000-04:002003-04-22T04:41:37.000-04:00Spruced up the Athena chapel with new music -- "Saber Dance" by Khachaturian -- and created a Frigga chapel since the war in Iraq is essentially over in terms of any real fighting (YAY!!) and it is now time to rebuild and keep the peace there -- hence the chapel to the Northern goddess known as the peacemaker . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-919668302003-04-04T01:42:00.000-05:002003-04-04T01:47:59.000-05:00Updated the Links page with clickable banners for MeetUp -- it's a way for virtual and real-world communities-of-interest to meet and interact on a face-to-face basis. I may decide to host one or more of their pagan-oriented gatherings -- I want to see what type of people they attract first though . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-911026472003-03-20T23:08:00.000-05:002003-03-20T23:38:47.000-05:00Spring is finally here (officially) so I'll be sprucing things up a bit around this conglomeration of sites. I've decided to start by creating chapels for both Athena and Mars, of whom I am both very fond. I put them up now despite the lack of a complete graphics/music set since we are now at war in Iraq (again) and I think this is an appropriate day to open these chapels for online public Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-882706622003-01-30T10:23:00.000-05:002003-01-30T10:23:54.610-05:00Changed the music in the Thor chapel -- now all the chapels have unique pieces of music playing in them once again . . . Also updated the UnCoven homepage slightly with a link to the download site for the Crescendo music plugin I've been using to play all the MIDI files on the site and a few other notes on surfing the site to maximize the experience for anyone who'se visiting it.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-880455472003-01-26T08:30:00.000-05:002003-01-26T08:30:39.670-05:00Made a Woden chapel, since I finally found some nice graphics for him. I prefer the Germanic form to the Scandanavian Odin, who seems to be far grimmer and darker in spirit -- Woden seems to me to be a little more friendly. I also changed the color scheme and the music in the Sigyn chapel and updated the Credits page.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-880027332003-01-25T07:10:00.000-05:002003-01-25T07:10:37.430-05:00Created an Ullr chapel, in part since the NYC area has been experiencing winter's icy grip for the past week and a half -- temperatures have not gone above the freezing mark for twelve days at this point. Because of this, I thought it appropriate to set up a chapel for the Norse God most closely associated with winter. Since he is the patron of winter sports & activities, I also set up a page (Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-872545552003-01-11T01:33:00.000-05:002003-01-11T01:33:58.460-05:00Revamped the Cernunnos chapel extensively with a new main image, rewrote the text, tweaked the color scheme slightly and set up the chapel's music -- prior to this there had been no music playing there, the only chapel or CyberShrine in the CyberTemple in which this was the case. Given that this is one of the oldest chapels in the CyberTemple, I feel much better now that it has been renovated andPersephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-872497342003-01-10T23:06:00.000-05:002003-01-10T23:11:55.000-05:00The Legba chapel is now up. After a long time searching, I finally found a decent picture of him. It includes some saint pictures, since it is a bit of a collage, but the central image is of an older black man with a cane, which is the essence of what he is supposed to look like. It's certainly good enough for now . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-869379862003-01-04T18:40:00.000-05:002003-01-04T18:42:04.000-05:00Made a chapel for Azaka, the loa of farmers. I'd been wanting to make one for him for quite a while, but it wasn't until very recently that I found his veve & a good picture of him that is NOT of a Catholic saint. (That's the reason the Legba chapel isn't up yet -- no good non-saint picture -- and it has to be of him, not Ellegua or Exu, since there ARE differences . . .) Also changed the color Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-864324092002-12-23T07:23:00.000-05:002002-12-23T07:23:51.560-05:00Created a Sigyn chapel. I've been meaning to make one for her for a while but hadn't found a nice picture of her. Now that I have it, the chapel is up, although I will probably change the color scheme and music sometime in the future.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-834462722002-10-24T01:34:00.000-04:002002-10-24T01:34:23.393-04:00There have been more than 5000 visitors to the UnCoven site in the past year! I fixed the counter code in early August of 2001 (see the 9/20/01 entry for more info about why the counter needed to be fixed) when it was around 250 -- it's currently at 5434. I guess I built some traffic . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-822818952002-09-29T16:54:00.000-04:002002-10-24T01:18:45.000-04:00Added an upcoming open event to the Pagan Community Calendar and Upcoming Open Events pages -- an outing to the Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-818140292002-09-19T05:01:00.000-04:002002-09-19T05:01:48.830-04:00Created a new index page for the FortuneCity site -- the old one was very out of date -- it'd been up as a placeholder since November 1999! It was rather ugly but the best I could do at the time, given the choices available with the online editor FortuneCity was using back then.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-818109932002-09-19T02:38:00.000-04:002002-09-19T03:02:32.000-04:00Added a few local events to the Pagan Community Calendar and added the NYC chapter of the Rainbow Family to the Links page, since there is a pretty big overlap there with the local pagan community. I've also started the (massive) process of uploading the Pagan Files to my FortuneCity site, where they can all be in one place, instead of scatterred over several different sites, as they are Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-813960692002-09-10T03:47:00.000-04:002002-09-10T03:47:11.010-04:00Sent a few emails to the site administrators of several September 11th archive sites, asking that my memorial site It Was a Beautiful Day in September . . . be added to the archives that they administer. Also submitted It Was a Beautiful Day in September . . . and the UnCoven homepage to the Alexa search engine to be crawled and included in the Wayback Machine, which allows a visitor to surf a Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-800171922002-08-09T02:47:00.000-04:002002-08-09T02:55:33.000-04:00Fixed the local weather feed for the TUCOTS Event Weather page. The Tripod dynamicly updating weather & horoscope feeds died a while back and I've been trying to get a decent replacement for them. I now have a weather feed back up, but I'm still working on a decent daily horoscope feed -- this is why the Daily Horoscope page has a renovation notice up, since all the astrological feeds for the Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-799956832002-08-08T16:17:00.000-04:002002-08-09T03:01:07.000-04:00Fixed the It Was a Beautiful Day in September . . . guestbook -- it was also messed up by the Bravenet hackers (see posts from 3/5/2002 & 3/15/2002 for more about this) so I had to re-upload the images for it to the rebuilt photo center and re-link them. I also added music to the guestbook -- an Yngwie Malmsteen tune called "Crying" -- and deleted some spam postings for commercial websites where Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-799302272002-08-07T05:30:00.000-04:002002-08-07T05:42:07.000-04:00Finally fixed the greeting card service. I had to re-upload every image, including all the backgrounds, to the Bravenet Photo Center, then re-link each one to the greeting card service. I also added links to more music files, so there would be more choices available than before, which also took time. It took me several hours to do all this. What gets me is that I wouldn't have had to do this if Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-799071842002-08-06T17:08:00.000-04:002002-08-06T17:08:57.790-04:00Redid the graphics & color scheme of the Pagan Community Calendar page. I'd just copied another already existing page at the site for it just to get the page up but now it has its own unique look.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-798377422002-08-05T04:19:00.000-04:002002-08-05T04:24:43.000-04:00There will be another open event in just under a week -- we'll be going to the Dragon Boat Races. I've created the announcement, posted it on the members-only site, e-mailed the info both to the UnCoven members list and TUCOTS guest list and suitably updated the Upcoming Open Events and Pagan Community Calendar pages. Phew! I'm pooped! Off to beddy-bye for me . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-797789632002-08-03T14:10:00.000-04:002002-08-03T14:10:24.530-04:00Created a Recommend This Site to Others page to hopefully get some word-of-mouth buzz going about my site. Build traffic, build traffic, build traffic . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-796509822002-07-31T14:26:00.000-04:002002-07-31T14:43:12.000-04:00Created a Pagan Community Calendar page that allows visitors to add events themselves (so I don't have to be bothered doing it!) and which will automatically repeat recurring events and delete expired events. It will primarily be for NYC and Long Island events, but events in upstate NY or the neighboring states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Conneticut will be welcomed also. I've been wanting Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-793378282002-07-24T03:21:00.000-04:002002-07-24T03:21:26.003-04:00I fixed the problem with the Upcoming Open Events page update HTML. I ended up dumping the form and going with a simple text link, since the form HTML was getting messed up by Tripod's on-line editor, which kept on adding line breaks in the middle of the code since it thought it was a simple text passage. Growl . . . During the course of this troubleshooting, Tripod corrupted my page, so I had Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-792506642002-07-22T06:24:00.000-04:002002-07-22T06:24:42.453-04:00Updated the Upcoming Open Events page with the info for the next event -- Inti Raimi Andean Sun Festival in Bryant Park on Sunday the 28th. It's a bit short notice, but I just found out about it and I think I'll be able to get a small crowd together. Maybe even a large one . . . I also sent out emails to the UnMembers and assorted interested others and updated the UnCoven YahooGroups site and Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-788109002002-07-11T03:45:00.000-04:002002-07-11T03:51:40.000-04:00Made some additions to the Top Site Listings and Webrings pages.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-787128312002-07-08T22:53:00.000-04:002002-07-11T03:49:48.000-04:00Created chapels for Mercury and Daikoku and suitably updated the Visit a Chapel and Asian Deities pages -- I'd been planning on making these chapels for a while but getting everything together -- backgrounds, images, music -- sometimes can take a while . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-785960012002-07-05T17:03:00.000-04:002002-07-31T14:15:28.000-04:00Found out the hard way Yahoo has been futzing with my site. My class So You Want to Be a Pagan . . . has been changed into a YahooGroup list/site. This meant I had to go in and make quite a few changes to settings. I also emailed the students about the changes, including a few to the structure of the course. I'm now having them download and read the current month's Famous Pagan Text (and Fairy Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-785800592002-07-05T04:31:00.000-04:002002-07-05T04:33:53.000-04:00Updated some of my Tripod pages with my new DeadJournal link and edited other parts of the pages as needed. Persephone's Personal Page Portal mostly just had its links revamped while Persephone's Personal Tripod Page had a bit more work done to it in terms of both links and text. At least now there are no more dead links on either page . . . I also made a few entries into my DeadJournal so that Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-785564932002-07-04T14:08:00.000-04:002002-07-04T14:19:47.000-04:00Created a DeadJournal with the rather non-descript title of Persephone Yavanna the Entwife's journal, which I might possibly change in the future . . . This journal (as opposed to the Blogger ones) is a more personal weblog, more about what's going on in my life. It has places to put in my mood and the music I'm listening to at the moment I'm adding an entry. I have some friends who are on Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-785044452002-07-03T08:18:00.000-04:002002-07-03T08:23:00.000-04:00Revamped the Credits page so it now has links to the rest of the site -- before it only had links to the sites where I've gotten graphics or website tools (like guestbooks, counters, etc.) or music. I'm trying to make the site have a more-or-less consistent look-and-feel plus I want every page to have certain key links -- namely those to the homepage, CyberTemple, my web store, the UnCoven infoPersephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-783282242002-06-28T17:20:00.000-04:002002-06-28T17:33:14.000-04:00Revamped the Consult Esmerelda page by adding the ability to do 3 more types of tarot card readings -- single card, yes-no and 3 card past-present-future. Previously, the only tarot card reading available was Celtic Cross. This involved having to do some JavaScript and HTML troubleshooting, as the page wouldn't display correctly -- I've got it working now in MS IE and Netscape 6.2 but there are Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-776942102002-06-13T08:29:00.000-04:002002-06-13T08:37:09.000-04:00Created a Connect with Other Solitaries page using Bravenet's new GuestMap feature. I've been getting hits from all over the country and the world, many of which included comments that indicated a desire to connect with other solitaries, particularly those in the writer's local area. Since the UnCoven is based in New York City and the surrounding metro area, there was no way to allow these Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-772048802002-05-31T21:58:00.000-04:002002-05-31T22:03:27.000-04:00Added my gardening blog Diary of a Gardening Goddess to the UnCoven homepage under the section Persephone's Other Pages. I started it in April but I hadn't gotten around to placing the link on TUCOTS' index page until now since I've been busy in the garden, it being planting season (makes sense, no?) -- this also explains why there have been so few posts to this blog lately, since I'm usually tooPersephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-763291452002-05-08T23:03:00.000-04:002002-05-08T23:03:52.556-04:00Found out what the problem was with the voting URL for Persephone's Pagan Picks top site listing page -- for some reason, the voting gateway page was putting black type on a black background, even though the type was set to white (and showed correctly on the list itself). After an extended back-and-forth with tech support (who were rather snippy and condescending, in my opinion), I decided the Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-762210052002-05-06T10:58:00.000-04:002002-05-06T10:58:22.126-04:00Created a chapel for Tyr -- kind of basic, but it'll do . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-761609622002-05-04T15:37:00.000-04:002002-05-04T15:42:59.000-04:00Having problems with the voting URL for Persephone's Pagan Picks top site listing page -- I am in correspondance with tech support to resolve the issue. The listing & description are missing from their newly redesigned directory too. I fixed the banner URLs while I was at the Top Sites administration section -- my banner on Bravenet no longer allows remote loading, so I have to change all my Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-759906552002-04-30T00:52:00.000-04:002002-04-30T00:58:17.000-04:00I've started the tedious process of re-uploading all the graphics that were lost when Bravenet got hacked in March -- all the images in my Photo Center were lost and/or corrupted, resulting in an essentially useless greeting cards page and other services that did not look their best, to put it mildly. So far I've fixed the Guestbook, Chat and Pagan Personals. It'll be a while before I've Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-756584582002-04-21T16:16:00.000-04:002002-04-21T16:20:01.000-04:00Uploaded a lot of files to the new Paganfiles section I had to open. Angelfire has cut the disk space allotment for free accounts from 50 MB to 20 MB, so anything that went over my 20 MB allotment in my main UnCoven account would have been deleted on 4/30/02. So I opened up a separate account for my Paganfiles and put the excess there with Asian-oriented files going into the Teahouse account. Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-753548102002-04-13T03:47:00.000-04:002002-04-13T03:47:38.273-04:00The hit counter is over 3000 now -- 3026 to be exact -- so more than 2000 hits have come in the past 7 months -- exactly how many more I'm not sure because of the problems with Bravenet (see the 9/20/01, 3/5/02 and 3/15/02 posts in the archives for more info on this) but people do seem to be showing up on a regular basis. I guess I built traffic . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-114748922002-04-04T21:34:00.000-05:002002-04-04T21:41:05.000-05:00Fixed the broken graphic link in the UnCoven shrine candle-lighting area. The revolving God/dess maze is back as the icon there -- now I have to fix all the broken images from when Bravenet got hacked into last month. Maybe later . . . it's a big job and I'd rather channel the Goddess of Procrastination a bit longer . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-111611132002-03-26T23:04:00.000-05:002002-03-26T23:04:23.810-05:00Created chapels for Pele and Thor and fixed some links in Loki's chapel -- his is one of the oldest chapels I've created & he was missing a few site links that the newer chapels had. I also revamped the Visit a Chapel page to make it easier to add new chapel links and added links to the rest of the site, so you don't have to go to a chapel to get to the rest of the site.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-110004732002-03-22T02:23:00.000-05:002002-03-22T03:31:47.000-05:00Redid the graphics & color schemes of the Fortuna, Bes and Bast chapels and changed the music in the Bast chapel also -- whenever possible I try to have each deity have his/her/its own unique music playing in his/her/its chapel. As mentioned in my 3/20/02 post, sometimes I will have multiple deities using the same music (or graphics even) if necessary as a temporary measure until I can find Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-109257792002-03-20T04:14:00.000-05:002002-03-20T04:22:57.000-05:00Replaced the music in the Kuan Yin and Ho T'ai chapels with something more appropriate -- I'd been using Sakura from the Ama no Uzume chapel until I could find something more Chinese. Ho T'ai now has the Tea theme from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker -- a cheery tune for a cheery deity -- while Kuan Yin has a somewhat more melancholy and meditative piece of music from a Chinese classical composer -- thePersephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-108038792002-03-16T15:50:00.000-05:002002-03-16T15:59:48.000-05:00Added my first member to Persephone's Pagan Picks top site listing page -- I hope this will become a traffic generator for the UnCoven of the Solitaries site as more people sign up for the list. Build traffic, build traffic, build traffic . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-107551602002-03-15T02:10:00.000-05:002002-03-15T02:35:52.000-05:00Well, Bravenet's back online . . . Unfortunately, all the images I stored in their photo center are gone -- this affects my guestbooks, Pagan Personals and my greeting cards. Also gone are all guestbook entries made after Candlemas (2/2) . . . So I have to rebuild the photo center, re-upload all my images and re-link them, a task I am NOT looking forward to doing. Well, at least the counters,Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-107441002002-03-14T20:18:00.000-05:002002-03-14T20:19:18.000-05:00The UnCoven is having an open event for the first time in more than a year -- an outing to a Hinduism exhibit at the Museum of Natural History on the 24th of this month. I have suitably updated the upcoming open events page as well as sent out emails to members and other interested persons and added the event to the members-only website calendar.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-105677082002-03-09T17:38:00.000-05:002002-03-09T17:55:21.000-05:00Created the Teahouse, a section that is Asian oriented. It will have information on Chinese astrology, Asian deities, Taoism, I Ching, Buddhism and anything else that I think fits an Oriental theme. Currently it just has the Teahouse entrance page and an Asian Deities page, but pages on the Chinese zodiac will be appearing shortly . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-105421212002-03-08T19:34:00.000-05:002002-03-08T19:34:17.880-05:00Did some major construction in the CyberTemple -- revamped the Durga and Vishnu chapels with new wallpaper and color schemes and created new chapels to Apollo, Lakshmi, Kuan Yin and the Lord and Lady. I also updated the Visit a Chapel page as a result of all this activity. Phew! I'm pooped . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-105176162002-03-07T23:21:00.000-05:002002-03-07T23:21:24.250-05:00Joined even more webrings -- build traffic, build traffic, build traffic . . . Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-104260472002-03-05T18:34:00.000-05:002002-03-05T18:40:09.000-05:00Bravenet got hacked, so all their services are down as of 3-2-02. This means a lot of my sites' functionality is kaput -- no guestbooks, no pagan greeting cards, no forwarding of visitors' email to me, no pagan personals, no chat and no counters for some pages. They have no date yet for when things will be up and running -- it's been 3 days & things are still down -- they have to rebuild some Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-103415862002-03-03T17:39:00.000-05:002002-03-03T17:39:01.356-05:00Joined yet more webrings -- build traffic, build traffic, build traffic . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-103205382002-03-02T23:55:00.000-05:002002-03-03T00:02:29.000-05:00Created a new addition to the divination capabilities of the CyberTemple -- a Runes page where one can get both single and multiple rune readings from the virtual runemistress. I'd been wanting to add this for quite a while & now I've found the proper HTML to do so -- yay!!Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-102561742002-03-01T02:41:00.000-05:002002-03-01T02:46:32.000-05:00Updated my Awards page with the TarotStar 2002 Top Site award for being Site of the Month for February.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-102508432002-02-28T23:22:00.000-05:002002-03-01T02:47:51.000-05:00Revamped the Top Site Listings page -- there were a lot of broken image links I had to fix and several lists were defunct, so I removed the links to them altogether. Those sites where I couldn't get a link to their banner or voting graphic became text links -- not as pretty, but quicker to load.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-101775012002-02-27T04:09:00.000-05:002002-02-27T04:09:32.266-05:00Joined some more webrings -- build traffic, build traffic, build traffic . . . Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-101381402002-02-26T04:39:00.000-05:002002-02-26T04:39:47.693-05:00Joined a few more webrings -- build traffic, build traffic, build traffic . . . Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-85026502002-01-07T22:56:00.000-05:002002-01-07T22:56:51.133-05:00Happy New Year! Welcome 2002! Sayonara 2001 -- a year that right royally sucked for most people I know & not just because of 9-11 or the bearish financial markets. Here's a bit of news -- since fixing the counter code in early August, I've had more than 2000 visitors -- I'm quite happy about that! (See the 9/20/01 entry for more details on why the counter needed to be fixed etc.) I can't help Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-81964192001-12-26T03:32:00.000-05:002001-12-26T03:33:24.000-05:00Fixed the main image in the UnCoven shrine candle-lighting section which Angelfire had also broken.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-81963062001-12-26T03:18:00.000-05:002001-12-26T03:18:42.886-05:00Fixed the broken image link in the Guestbook -- Angelfire considered it remote loading, even though it's been woking for years even after they adopted their no-remote-loading policy. I guess they decided to upgrade their enforcement of the policy . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-79193092001-12-14T01:54:00.000-05:002001-12-14T02:01:24.000-05:00Uploaded some new files to Persephone's Pagan Files -- I'll be revamping that section soon . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-78306982001-12-11T05:41:00.000-05:002001-12-11T05:50:47.000-05:00Updated the Vishnu chapel with an appropriate main image -- still looking for a nice background for this chapel & the Fortuna one, which also needs a nice main image . . .Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-77347842001-12-07T14:56:00.000-05:002001-12-11T05:41:08.000-05:00Changed the graphic & color scheme on the Webrings page. Also created 2 new chapels to Fortuna & Vishnu.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3114565.post-75162362001-11-29T20:44:00.000-05:002001-11-29T20:50:56.000-05:00Updated the intra-site links on the most recent pages I've created -- when I made the pages I'd only put a link back to the UnCoven homepage and sometimes to the CyberTemple entrance. Now all the pages have those two links plus links to Persephone's Realm, the Shop for the Urbane Pagan, my mail page and the portal page to UnCoven info, members-only pages & event info.Persephonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252674497312047542noreply@blogger.com