Cats In Sinks
What more do you need?
Sleater-Kinney is coming back to Toronto
Too bad they are opening for Pearl Jam, and tickets are $60. But they are also playing the Ear to the Ground Festival the day before…
mmm, themes
So after a lot of digging around the net I found a nice, fluid design called Giraffe. Not only is the code purty nice to play with, but it comes with a plugin to manage some basic settings. Sweet! Now I just need to find a good randomizing plugin or write my own. You may have noticed that there’s a random line from a song that appears in the header, but it’s only from one song (and a hack of the “Hello Dolly” default WordPress plugin). I’d like to have tbe ability to add entire songs and have random lines appear, with full artist/title and linking capabilities. Yeah, in my spare time 😛
gotta hack this page design
So now I’ve got WordPress installed and it’s nice and all that, but the default theme is driving me bananas. Why? It has a static width.
I hate static width webpages. It’s not that hard to use a design that scales gracefully from 800×600 all the way up to 2048×1536. So the first thing I’ll be doing is hacking a nice liquid layout into this theme. Then we’ll be getting somewhere, and I can go on to recreating all the old pages from Movable Type.
busted device blues done got me down
There’s really no point in carrying my Newton around anymore. I haven’t opened it in weeks. I need to figure out where my sites are going to move to though, since I’m going to have to bring my server home by the end of September and I don’t just want those resources to go away.
My GBA Flash card hasn’t worked right in a long time… the save function on it is still really wonky, I’m sure it’s not the battery now, what it seems to be is that most of the time writing to the save area just doesn’t work. This could be due to a damaged pin, short, or bad solder joint somewhere on the card but I can’t fix problems like that, nor do I have the tools. It just sucks that I can only play the first level in most games, because I can’t save my frickin’ progress!! Urgh. For brief shining moments it does work, so it’s not completely broken, it just pisses me off!
When the Pepper Pad comes though, I will be porting many emulators over to it and then my GBA will be moot, because I’ll be playing GBA, NES, SNES, whatever games I want, and be able to keep them all on the internal hard drive. Unless I leave it at home for Sandy to use, of course. I can share!
