HFCS: effika’s blog

Trying out Wordpress for now. I

Ok, so it’s not so secret since I posted it on both Livejournal and my Blosxom blog.
I feel so dirty using Wordpress. Dirty dirty dirty. You know what? Screw the post.php crap, I’m writing this in the new Vim and then just c/p’ing. Maybe thatt will make me feel [...]

I’m trying out Wordpress for a while. I really love Blosxom as a blogging engine, but I can’t find a suitable gamut of anti-spam tactics for it.

You should CLICK HERE for the new blog. I have updated it with a post about King Kong.

I am currently figuring out a way to transfer all [...]

Yoshi’s Island
Learning how to make Wordpress do what I want

I came into the lab today to clean out the last of my PCRs and turn in my key. It left me very upset, since it meant that my time here was really and truly over. I loved working in Dr. D’s lab and [...]

I’m almost finished with my theme! I based it off of Barthelme. There’s still tweaking to do, but it’s finished enough that I can put it up.
The documentation for writing Wordpress themes is all over the place at the Wordpress Codex. Maybe when I’m done I’ll write up a post about my experiences.

Last night Jay rolled into bed around 5:30am, waking me.
“What’s with all the bright lights on the shades?” I asked.
“Oh, the dumpster caught fire, but the firemen have mostly taken care of it,” he said.
I jumped out of bed to see 6-8 firemen standing around the dumpster and a small firetruck in [...]

KMorg posts are now uploaded!
Blosxom posts are now uploaded!
I’m slowly getting the old KMorg posts in the proper form to import. They were exported in Movable Type export format, but Wordpress doesn’t quite understand all of it. Wordpress also was totally not setting the publish/draft stuff right when I tried to import it [...]

Jay and I saw the third X-Men film at 12:10am tonight. When we went up 2 hours before showtime to get tickets we saw people dressed up as Beast, Professor X, Juggernaut, and Wolverine waiting in line for the doors to open.
I do not wish to spoil it for anyone, so this mini-review will [...]

I’ve found a plug-in to get threaded comments, but it’s rather ugly and doesn’t quite do what I want. I’m playing around with it to see if I can get it to work the way I want before I head out tonight for the high school’s graduation.
Because of the way that TinyThread works (bypassing [...]

Construct a DOM map of a webpage with a nifty Java app.
Here’s what http://www.effika.net/blog/ looks like today!

The colors:

Blue: for links (the A tag)
Red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
Green: for the DIV tag
Violet: for images (the IMG tag)
Yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
Orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and [...]

Campfires with friends
S’mores, even when 3 people each bring enough supplies for the whole group
Lightning from distant storms
Hammocks
Hummus
Bread toasted over the fire and eaten with hummus
Watermelon
Cool breezes
Sacrificial marshmallows
Phrases such as “go ass over teakettle” and “Is the mop still wet?”