JADB

After some time, it seems WordPress and I are slowly coming to a compromise: It will do as it sees fit, and I’ll do my best to hack the living hell out of it to get it to do exactly what I want. So far it is winning. :-/

At least it has been an interesting trip:

1. I’ve gotten to know PHP a lot better,
2. I’ve found the Get Custom Field Values plugin for WordPress and am having a great deal of fun with it,
3. I also, quite by accident as it were, stumbled across Alex Kings’s WP Style Switcher; something you’ll note at the bottom of my Menu section. I had to hack it a bit, though, to get it to not display the colon after the ‘Style’,
4. I’m re-learning why, exactly, I love CSS so much.
5. Quicktags and I are becoming very friendly, especially after I hacked the quicktags.js file to allow <br /> tags…

The cost to it all has, of course, been time. It’s not something I complain too much about — I only ever complain about the view when I go through the Karoo, a semi-arid stretch of South Africa inland of the Mountains in Southern Cape, nothing happens in the Karoo — since it has been fairly diverting.

Yeah, I know. Geeks. We find the damndest things diverting… ;-)

I suppose it was bound to happen.

My fiancée has been bitten by the blogging bug and I decided to get her her own domain. Why? Just ’cause I can, I suppose. Besides which, she likes it so there!

Something I’ve always found rather peculiar in me; since I’m a career geek — disregarding, for the time being, the time I spent in the South African military — I tend to be rather familiar with technology and its trends. Yet when it comes to the softer, more social, aspects of our, with respect to Aldous Huxley, ‘Brave new World’ I seem to be quite adrift.

Now, personally, I place the blame firmly on the shoulders of Fight-’o-net; erm… I mean, of course, Fido-net. As anyone poking around at that time will be able to recall with varying amounts of fondness, Fido-net was a fairly harsh environment to take one’s first faltering steps in electronic communication in. Think Splash-pool meets Jaws…

The long and short of it, though, is that, while I am more than capable of building the Internet QE2, I consider myself quite incapable of even paddling a canoe; my last trip anywhere having been on the Titanic, as it were.

Getting to the point (finally!), after being challenged by my fiancée I’ve decided to — stretching the analogy even further — get my feet wet again and go swimming in the electronic stream.

Or something. Anyway, since I had already configured her domain and WordPress I decided to give this here blogging stuff a go as well.

So here we have just another self-centered pretender of indifferent skill blathering on… I pity thee, poor reader.