While you're waiting for a non-generic theme…

I’d just like to say that Chrissy LeMaire’s QuickCode kicks major ass. No more HTML entities for me, no sir! All my code’s going in little tiny boxes, and they’re going to stay exactly the way I put them in.

See her plugin in action at the Constellation blog.

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Hello world!

It’s been awhile, hasn’t it?

There’s a lot of ground to cover, but for now, the most important thing to know is that I’m trying out WordPress for the blog. Observations on multi-blog setup for Debian Etch are in the works. For now, know that getting individual themes for blogs is a bit of pain in the butt, unless you’re willing to symlink your personal themes to the system WordPress directory. That will be fixed.

Keep an eye out.

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PHP and MySQL officially do not suck.

As of this update, this page is backed by a MySQL database, accessed through PHP. I haven’t noticed much of a slowdown yet, but we’ll see what happens when I start adding miscellaneous cruft to the database.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that I’ve made an authoring tool for this page yet. In fact, I’m typing all this in on the MySQL monitor. You wouldn’t believe how much of a pain it is to have to escape every single-quote!

More details to come, assuming the load doesn’t kill the server.

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On the 16-bit pornographic terrorist taser training game.

I feel much better now, having played a bunch of really old games packed into this single arcade cabinet that Seiji and I monopolized for the few hours we were there.
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This is not your beautiful wife!

Have you ever had a day in which you just didn’t seem to fit in the world anymore? I mean, you wake up and immediately want to go back to sleep, because what you see, what you experience, is coming up negative on the memory search. Everything you know is wrong!

Well, guess what sort of day I had. Go ahead.
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