Monthly Archive for May, 2008

Wordpress is easy _and_ fun.

I’m experimenting – I’ve found out that tech on the interwebs is advanced enough to offer me full control over my very own ‘virtual private server’ – a Xen virtual machine running Centos 5, specifically – and it’s let me install and tinker Wordpress to my desire.  Wordpress 2.5 is pretty damn slick – AJAXy and all – and better yet, it allows me to integrate with Livejournal, so I could technically move everything from LJ to my site and still keep folks up to date on such critical inanities as the state of my work life and what my bent frame thinks is funny.

So I’m testing it.  If it works, I may finally be able to have a nice hobby box without the annoying hum or the cost of SDSL.

Voila

Careful application of the GIMP to a scan from my own copy of Ultimate Sandman volume 1 produced the subtle background for the style, I’ve added random quotes (I’ll collect more as they come to mind), and I’ve begun to nail down the linkroll. I may still have to shuffle things around to make them march the way I want (like maybe make a third column just for the links… not sure.)

We’ll see.  Performance definitely a lot better than what I’ve been seeing on powweb or hostmonster, but then, it’s dedicated. Makes a difference.

yay toys.

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