More changes here; notice the new(-ish) Meebo Me! widget on the sidebar there. I’d say I wrote it myself, but it’s based heavily on the Xbox Live! Gamertag widget. I just changed some values around and voila! it worked… not on the first try, but that goes with any piece of software. I’m always hesitant when something I write appears to work the first time out the gate.  It’s like, “okay, what’s broken?” Like a house or car that is up for sale way below the market.

[Scene: Suspiciously Fantastic Apartment.]
Fry: Well, I give up. What’s the catch?
Landlord #3: Oh, no catch. Although we are technically in New Jersey.
[Scene: Planet Express: Lounge. Fry, Bender and Leela sit around the table.]
Fry: Not one place even remotely liveable.

I’ve been playing around with a lot of themes and plugs lately around here - you may have noticed.  The coolest thing I have discovered in all of this is the stuff you can’tsee.  SSH’ing into a server and downloading files directly is a breeze.  Sure it requires knowledge of bash, but it’s just a UNIX-fied version of DOS (which is, I’m not certain, more accurately, DOS is a re-imagining of UNIX).

I can grab a theme from the WordPress site directly, unzip it and test it out in less than 10 seconds! Under the old regime, I would have had to download the package, unzip it all, and then upload the files into the appropriate place. That’s two file-transfer hops versus just one, and I can unzip on the server. It really is awesome.

It took awhile, but I finally got it! Well, mostly.

The main page is functional enough for publishing. Don’t let the simplicity fool you though, there are some inner workings in the background that will make it a breeze to make posts in the future.

I only have a few minutes at a time to myself as per the nature of my job as a phone-jockey doing tech support.  What amounts to less than 50 lines of PHP and HTML is several weeks of work. I could probably have banged it out in a day if I had one to myself, but now I have mostly working code.  There are some bugs in it, like I can’t do PNGs unless I do them manually. There may be some oddities in the navigation of the posts. There is no random page at all, that just breaks outright.

In any case the major functions are there, and I’m proud of myself! Hopefully I’ll update regularly, and I need to add functionality for NSFW content.  I call it art, but hey, some manager out there or *gulp* even mine may not.  I’m thinking like adding an extra field like thumbnail, or censored version, or something.

I’ll try to update here more regularly as well. Try, try, try.

Anyway, cheers! (I’m not even English!)