Minor refresh
Was prepping a new banner inside PictBear, while browsing WordPress plugins. Then it was only WordPress plugin and theme browsing. I guess I spent my quota of attention in the working hours and saved none when I am home.
My fingers got itchy and installed a few themes, and here we are with a new look. The itch didn’t wear off, so there I was again in the plugins section, not founding what I wanted after a few trials. A short trip to mother Google landed me with Facebook Connect Plugin for WordPress, and the itches went away. There are still a few styling glitches with the theme that I will look into, but not tonight.
I did also installed WPtouch yesterday, so hopefully faster and slicker browsing for Android/iPhone/BlackBerry visitors. Next would be to move Facebook photos back to the site probably?
Tell me what you think. Other than the bare header :).
Good night.
Screenshot Series #5
The screenshot series continues with yet another medieval shot, taken on 2002-12-10. I think this is one of the shot I taken to be sent to #mozilla regarding their rendering bug. Was a green PHP coder back then. Using Notepad!!! (Nah …)
It was when Firefox was Phoenix, and it was at a very beta level. IE5 was quite a stable and capable browser (at the time). Notice the lack of CSS dashed border support, escaped HTML character misrendering, and the box sizing difference (this one still prevails, as CSS2 still does not dictate exactly on inclusion/exclusion of border width, and there you are, browser quirks).
Desktop goodies like BeOS-like window theming and icons are as always my defaults.
Another screenie around the same period. Was doing localization for LeechGet, and Yahoo Messenger custom BeOS theme aka BeMessenger.
Found the above screenshots on my previous blog’s development archive, along with tons of other treasures. I have created at least 5 blog application prototypes that have never seen public usage (other than niji.sytes.net). At least one of it was properly planned (named it “cri”, for “shout” in french), had a templating engine, database abstraction, and was inspired by WordPress when they were just a small player back then. Other stuffs in the undone code archive were 2 uploaders, 1 image uploader, 2 chatboxes. All still there frozen in the zip.
―――昔の俺以上に、頑張ろう。
03.8.10Screenshot Series #4
Fourth in the series, and already ran out of screenshots that can be shared without major censorship :((
This time, it’s not a full screenshot, but only a browser screen on nacchi (Windows XP) VNC’ing to hyde (FreeBSD) and inside hyde, ssh’ing to istana (OpenBSD). The date should be 2003-07-20 (or so says the file modified timestamp). I am still searching the Black Chii (from Chobits) wallpaper inside my archives, since its quite rare to find a good Chobits wallpaper nowadays.
For those who noticed, the hostname for hyde was mikity.systes.net, since I ran out of the free hostnames at No-IP back then. Please do not be taken away by my naming sense; it’s a tradition where you put your favorite character/person/singer/artist name as the host name. Remember that if you care for your machine, the machine will love you back :D Hehehehe. Other than なっち, ミキティ and hyde, my current machine is (黒川)智花. The ultimate machine should be (宮崎)あおい, but there is yet a machine I own worth the name. And my car is (大崎)ナナ, with a matching license plate of 707.
OK, you can vomit now.
03.2.10Screenshot Series #3
Today’s post goes further back a bit to 2004-05-21. FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE running Fluxbox on Istana (Dynabook G4PME, PentiumIII 1.0GHz). The laptop was my main “lab” after getting a Celeron 2.2GHz machine (先代valkyrie, now a family PC back home). Not a lot, but it was flippy fast for normal usage and doing class work. There were weeks of daily kernel and world building, tweaking the kernel options to load only the options that is needed. Boot time to a usable Fluxbox desktop was under 10sec (skipping FreeBSD boot menu, going straight to startx). Had a hard time waiting for the sound card driver to work, helping the driver developer to test with success.
Regarding the windows inside the screen; aterm was my favorite terminal emulator, with good multibyte support and pseudo-transparency; emacs console mode editing a homegrown rss fetching script; and X-Chat hanging around #freebsd and #fluxbox.
I had another machine running OpenBSD on a very worn PentiumII 233MHz, which may show up in a terminal window somewhere in the coming screen shots.
