I’m sandboxing PHP today (not to be confused with playing with the Sandbox theme from the fine folks over at plaintxt.org), working on learning the code so that I can start coding the stuff from scratch, instead of just being able to hack other people’s work. I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile now, [...]
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Code Geek
I am a WordPress god! Ok, not really, but I am enjoying the fact that I can now manipulate a WP theme pretty easily. It’s true – the more you use CSS, the more you play around with web design, the better you get at it.
I host a number of different websites for myself and for friends [...]
WP 2.2
Just updated with the latest version of WordPress again (2.2). Painless as always and I like the new features. I played with the RC1 version last week and enjoyed having widget support built in and automatic disabling of plugins that’ll generate fatal errors. It’s also a bit faster, but that’s something you might not notice. [...]
Coming Changes
Dang it. I’ve learned my lesson. It is possible to have too many toys, especially when some of those ‘toys’ involve badly written code.
Sometime in the course of the next week, I think I will be giving Writer’s Blog an overhaul. For starters, I’m going to trim my number of plugins being used down to a [...]
Gmail Clean
Greasemonkey + Gmail Super Clean = a much prettier Gmail interface
Geek Wishes
Geeky things I’d love to learn how to do but haven’t, as yet, found the time or opportunity:
Learn how to use Photoshop1 and GIMP to their maximum potentials
Learn how to record and edit audio files
Acquire the equipment and training to create “machinima”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima
Set up and run my own web server from home
I’m sure there are others, but these stand at the [...]
FoS Redesigned
I’ve just finished a complete site redesign on Flashes of Speculation, giving it what is, I hope, a unique and attractive layout.
I built this template – called Speculation (for obvious reasons) – from the ground up, stripping the necessary files down to the bare code to keep WordPress running and then builing everything back up around that. The result is [...]
Chess Blog
For interested chess geeks, I’ve started up a chess blog. My primary goal right now is simply to share games I’ve played with friends and give me an opportunity to review these games and analyze them. So, if anyone wants to follow along, maybe we can teach each other some things about the game.