Greetings people! After testing out WordPress for a couple of weeks, I today decided to release my new site. As I mentioned, it’s powered by WordPress among other things. The current theme is designed by me with some CSS borrowed from the WordPress 1.5 default theme. I’ve also written some custom template code for the My music page.
I’ve been using keyword searches in Firefox since it was introduced. I love it! I use it for Google, IMDB etc. There’s a problem though. If you need more than one search term, Firefox separates them with “%20″ instead of the more correct use of a plus (+) sign. This breaks some searches, for example Allmusic and Wikipedia. Today I discovered that there’s a bug entry for this in Firefox’s bug tracker and it’s called “Bug #247645: spaces should be encoded as plus signs in keyword search”. It was opened June 19 2004, so I guess it’s not high priority over at Firefox HQ. Hopefully they’ll get around to it in Firefox 1.1 or something. I could grab the code, fix this myself and the recompile the whole thing. This is definately something I would have done 7 years ago, but now I’m just too lazy. ;)
I’m in a bit of a slump music wise again… Surprise, surprise. If you’ve been following my “career” during the years… you know I end up in these kinds of things now and then. Actually, I think the periods of great inspiration loss are winning. I always ask myself – why? Why do I have these long, long periods of “silence”. To be honest, I haven’t got the faintest clue. I’ve tried to really analyze this, but after a while I gets kinda boring. I guess I should just let it go. Who knows, maybe I’ll be able to make music if I stop to think about making music… Ehm, oh well. Don’t mind me, I’m rambling. ;)
Been a bit swamped at work, so I haven’t been able to work on this little test. Also, the fan on my graphics card (on my main system at home) broke down, so I can’t use the computer for more than 10 minutes. Luckily I have my laptop, but working on a laptop is a bit slower, atleast for me… Anyway, I ordered a new fan this weekend, and it should arrive today. I got me a Zalman VF700-AlCu which should be more than enough for my needs.
update: The fan arrived today, as predicted. I’ve installed it and run some Radeon demos to warm the chip up a bit. No problems so far. Let’s hope it stays this way.
Hi folks! Been thinking about redesigning my site (dempa.init5.net) from the ground up for some time now. Writing a new framework (utilising HTML::Mason of course) would be kinda fun. On the other hand, it’s quite a lot of work and I really don’t have the time right now. Anyway, was browsing through some blogs’n stuff the other day and I stumbled upon WordPress 1.5. Haven’t given these open source blogging solutions much thought before. Why not? Well, you know, I’m a coder… I like to “roll my own”.
“Luckily” for me, I get to do some coding (and design) even if I switch to using WordPress for my personal site. So far I’ve whipped up my own theme and made a small stub for a WP Template that will be used to showcase my songs (“My music” in the menu on the right). My former site had lots of logging, stats and stuff, but I think I’ll let that go now. I mean, it’s cool to know that people download my music, but not how many per day and so on.
Time will tell if this is the road I want to take…