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And once again I’ve put off writing for way too long. However that means it gives some good stuff to write about.  Continue reading

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against staying in one place. I’m just not used to it for more than a year or two at a time. I’m just getting to that point again where staying in one place is starting to get to me. Continue reading

Over the past couple of days I’ve decided to redo another one of my sites- my personal work site. Over the years that I’ve owned it its seen many, many changes. Unfortunately waybackmachine.com doesn’t have any useful archives I could point to so you’ll have to trust me.

The idea of writing my own WP theme has always been daunting and I had thought about it many times before. This last time came around when I decided to write my own CMS from scratch to run my website. It worked. It was clunky and way more complicated on the backend than it needed to be. But it looked good. Mostly. When I finally came to terms with the fact that it didn’t display the way I really wanted it to I finally said “F it, lets do it right.”

I jumped on the WordPress Codex, read up on the different functions and even tried to dissect a theme just to get the basic bits. Normally this works well for me, but I just couldn’t wrap my head around it. After  half a day of browsing Youtube and Vimeo I was able to put all the pieces together and start a theme that gimps along.

As it stands I’ve finally finished something that resembles a finished product but there is still a lot to be done. I’ve learned how much more I appreciate standards and how I wish Microsoft would follow those standards. I plan on tweaking as needed as time goes on. I’m sure there will be plenty to do. Once I actually get it working nicely, I’ll probably go through the code and CSS and make it all look pretty. Maybe learn how to put some in theme options in and see if anyone bites as a theme. And then maybe I won’t. I like the idea of having my own WP theme that I can safely assume no one else has. Does that make me selfish?

I’ve been inspired for another little fun project. Meet Jarvis.

Project Jarvis is a digital life assistant (DLA). He uses mainly human communications means such as Twitter, instant message, and voice to create a two way connection between me and my apartment, controlling lights and appliances, notify me of breaking news, Facebook notifications, personal finances, package tracking, netflix, bittorrenting, assist in cooking, check stock quotes, weather, and more.

Over the past few days, I’ve been toying with the basics of how Jarvis is built (applescript) and I’ve been inspired to try to build something similar. I shall call him Herman. More on the name later.

Well, I’ve managed to go an entire month [and then some] without even a thought of a post. I take that back, I’ve though of posting but I havent. A bit lame on My part.

The past month has kept me busy though. Still learning how to use Codeigniter and getting a lot more comfortable everyday. Oh, and I’ve decided to start a[nother] new site.

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So I’ve been working with WordPress for a long time and dare I say I almost have an unhealthy relationship with it. Sure I’ve had fun dabbling with others, namely Drupal and Joomla, but somehow I always end up back at WP. Press, you’ve been a good friend, but now I think I need to start my own journey.
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I’m not sure where I’m going with this blog. I’d like to think that my life is interesting, but I haven’t really had much to post about my interesting life. After all, that was the whole point of this blog.

I’m not giving up on it. I refuse to this time. I just need some inspiration. It’ll get there.

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I’ve been in the new place for almost 3 weeks now. I love it. Did I mention I was moving?

I’M MOVING!!

Of course, Thats what I would have said a few weeks ago. Thats neither here nor there. Continue reading

It’s been almost a month and already I’m falling behind form my last post. I really do need to keep up with posting.

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The whole point of me keeping up with this blog is so that I can write more. I’ve been failing the past few days. I’ve felt that there isn’t much to write about, but I’m sure if I paid more attention, there would be plenty. I will keep this up, I promise!