Tavern Diary Volume 2

It’s 2.14.’00, Saint Valentine’s Day.
The sky is clear.
It looks like that I write Tavern Diary
only when Tavern reversion.

Anyway, the sky is clear.
Although a little cloudy,
a little tired,
a little sleepy… ah…

I keep working for about 2 months.
From before Chinese New Year,
till after Chinese New Year,
to save unix databases
and to write ASP pages of Tavern and WOV.
I was tired out,
wishing to catch a nice sleep…

My life is full of exciting things these times.
WOV website has finally reopened,
with subscribers’ list completedly saved,
which means WOV will continue publishing soon.
Tavern has reopened, too.
Mandy and I have sign a contract for a new column with YAM.
The new column should be named as “Woman’s Speech”
with NT$1 per word.
The argument with ramm will finally be dissolved, too.
Sysop should charge in a few days.

Furthormore, the total number of WOV’s subscribers
broke the number of 3,000.
Plus the millennium and the Chinese New Year.
What a gift, isn’t it? ^_*'

It’s about time to start writing.
I owe YAM 2 articles.
And the reopen noticification of WOV.
There should also be something new
for the New Tavern, too…

So I’d better start working by now. ^_*'

October 8th., 1999. Sunny.
Tavern is in the 4th reversion process.

It’s been almost one year since last Tavern Diary.
While I read my last diary, I found it very funny.
I’ve wrote “I’d completely re-decorated this Tavern,”
while in fact I stopped in the middle of it.
I left it desolated in a mess for almost a year.

The reason is that:
I found IE and Nescape’s page analysing differ largely,
not to say all other browsers.
There’s no way to make a “Best View With AnyBrowser” homepage.
After moving to SCCID this problem is partially solved.
With CGI, I can send different HTML for different browser.
Although it’s not “Best View”, but it’s acceptable.

Other stuffs are no way to make them, too.

I’m an translator in sun movie channel.
Though I’ll resign, and keep unemployed.
But the “internet magazine” in my former diary has come true:
“Woman’s Voice” E-Mail News has gone 4 periods,
with more and more feedback.
We’ll work with YAM.  Even SeedNet is asking.
Not to say over 1,000 of increasing subscribers.
If I have money,
I want to make an independant host and publishing.

That’s not trivial bullshit.
That’s a wonderful big thing.
I’m advancing towards my dream:
To devote my self in feminism / women libration.

Yeah, It’s wonderful.
I’m the Board Manager of NTU Palm BBS Les Board now.
I’d never thought of that one day I’ll have the chance
to really do something for the lesbian society.
But now it’s true.  I’m working on it.
I’m working on a virtual internet lesbian community.
I see so many young faces that’re strong and powerful,
so many young faces that’re are full of hope and faith,
who’ll difinitely become the next generation of
feminists and lesbian activists.

I’ve learned the most important thing in a compaign:
To organize the crowd, and to develope their class idealogy.
But not to fight with pen and sword.
Develope People’s Power, Let people fight for themself.
“People’s Power”.
That’s what was said by Corazon Cojuangco Aquino,
the former president of Phillipines.
which is the practice of “Empower” theory.

That’s all.
I wish this reversion not stop in the middle of it.
I wish this time I can find a better job and earn better salary.
I wish I can be happier.
Women Libration never ends.

Nov. 8th, 1998.  Sunny.
I’d completely re-decorated this Tavern.

There’re lots to talk about.
I’ve fount the newly-released
HTML 4.0 recommendationson on the
internet about 2 months ago.
3 weeks ago, after I resigned from
the previous job as an accounter,
I started reading this document.
I downloaded and read CSS1 standard
from the internet later.
Then I started rewriting Tavern
completely.
I’d met lots of difficulties trying,
and understood quite a lot about
CSS1 and HTML 4.0.
This results what you see now.

You probally would not like to hear of
all these trivial and boring stuffs.
Good.  I don’t want to talk, either.

But, what else can I say?
I’m unemployed,
The deposit can save me
only till the end of this month.
I even don’t know why I rewrote
this homepage.
Homepage desiner?
Several days ago I went interview
for a homepage desiner .
They should inform me today,
but they hadn’t yet.
It must be over.
Maybe I should actively
look for clients myself.
But people are asking JavaScript now.
I have to spend 2 more weeks
learning JavaScript.
Do I have 2 more weeks now?

Though it’s so tiring,
but there’re still good things.
Do you know there’re about 30
people passing by Tavern per day?
Even at the time I were busy
without updating for 3 months,
there’re still about 20 people
passing by per day.
Consider the fact that there’re
millions of non-commercial personal
homepages on the internet!
Not many people can make it!

It’s true that there’s too much
information flowing on the internet.
It’s true that the internet is
gradually bought by those capitalist.
It’s also true that besides those big
capitalists’ websites like China Times,
FTV, or those who offer special
service like software downloading,
most personal or commercial websites
are rarely visited.
If these are all true,
what will a personal non-commercial
website with more than 20 people
visited per day means?
Is it possible to advancedly develop
this place to an internet magazine
operating independently?

This is just a dream.
A magazine needs sponsers,
but GeoCities where this homepage
resides does not allowed to.
To rent an independence vertual
machine needs quite a lot money.
It’s another problem if there’s anyone
wanting to sponser a homepage that
only 700-800 visited per month.
Sponser banners needs JavaScript,
and that’s a problem, too. :~~~~

But it is still quite a dream!
Earlier today while I was reorganizing
old Tavern Diaries,
I saw the first Diary on 3.8.’98
that mentioned about those dreamings
while I was building Tavern.
The Tavern started from a dream, and
it shall go along with all these dreams.
I wish these dreams will come true! ^_*'

It’s October 12, ’98 today.

Being with this dizzying head
in the brand new midnight
with whole new spacing and timing,
I’m writing this diary now
in a completely different place.
The white wall has changed,
The desk and chair has changed,
The view of the window has changed,
and so do the life.

The OS has updated to Windows 98.
I’m using Netscape now.
I’ve learned to compose a computer.
There’s a new girl now beside me:
What has really changed on me
during these days?
I don’t know.
After 2 months of an accounter,
everything has started over again.
I had thought that I shall
gain something for these busy days.
But I seemed to be wrong.

Oh, yes!
I’ve learned accounting at last.

Why I have to go though
all of these shits?
It’s SO ridiculous!
Getting alone with gangs of
nonsense nationalists,
seeing the evening news show be planned
not until that very afternoon.
Actually they should not be blamed.
The time pressure is too heavy
for them to read and think.
But that’s the most critical
underground radio station in Taiwan!
You can endure no reading
and making poor programs,
but not me!
I want to keep reading, thinking, writing.
I want to keep myself progressing!

So I quit!
I was thinking that maybe I will
change my opinion toward nationalists,
but I was wrong.
Everything has started over again:
UNEMPLOYMENT.
It seemed to be a conservative ending.
Some things seemed to be changed
or not.

I’m back again.
At least I try to be myself,
and make myself better,
until the next advanture.