Posts Tagged ‘Site’

A Request

General | Posted by Derek
Oct 05 2009

A story update (be it a chapter or an excuse) is due Friday.

In the meantime, if anyone has knowledge of building plugins for wordpress, I need a little help.

I don’t have the time right now to build, debug, and implement a plugin to allow for navigation within subpages. Basically, I have all the stories in an order using the “order” field based on their in-universe date (approximately). The page flipper needs to be aware of that, not the posting order or posting date. An “Up” link to return to the index (the parent page) as well as a “Next” and “Previous” link that remain in only the current sub-page are all I need.

It should take all of like an hour, but I seriously can’t allot the time at present. I can’t offer much compensation other than maybe finding a place somewhere for a cameo. Edit: Possible success! See comments.

… Which reminds me, someone at some point asked me if Tari might have any siblings. I don’t remember who asked, but the answer is ‘yes.’ She definitely has one older sister (kitsune mother, human father) who is an integral part of later chapters, and I’ve made a note in the same chapter introducing that sister that there is at least one more sibling running around out there that she met while looking over the remains of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The sibling was genderlessly referenced, although this universe assumes that less than 5% of kitsune are male. I’ve shied away from giving her mother the satisfaction of bearing a male offspring (status == ego and we just can’t give that bitch the lift) but if someone happens to write something about one and lets me know, I certainly don’t mind and may even work it into canon.

As far as I’m aware beyond that question, no one’s ever wanted to write anything even remotely in this universe or even referencing a character because I’m so terrible about maintaining it. I do have a mental set of rules I’m trying to personally stick to that I’ve somewhat managed to dictate into the iPod, including the full nature of why the immortals ‘are,’ but I’ve yet to translate my disassociated ramblings into a structured cheat sheet.

Style

Uncategorized | Posted by Derek
Jul 13 2009

What’s easier on the eyes? Dark text on a light background, or light text on a dark background? I’ve had the site both ways. I personally prefer light-on-dark, but I can’t say that everyone would share my opinion. I’m usually in a darkened room on the laptop and find the dark background easier to deal with.

I really enjoy the colors on The Screaming Viking.

not by much

Uncategorized | Posted by Derek
May 01 2007

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Since switching to a Dreamhost shared hosting plan, I’ve been struggling to get used to the fact that using such hosting is far different than tweaking one’s own hardware and software on one’s own DSL link. It’s been interesting. And by interesting, I mean, of course, not so much interesting as painful.

It’s not Dreamhost’s fault. Far to the contrary - had I used their software installer and actually thought ahead as I was trying to move my data, it might have worked the first time. Or possibly, the second. The main complaint I have is that perl and php are running as cgi, not apache modules. For shared hosting this is almost a requirement (running as cgi) from an accounting standpoint - otherwise, code runs as the apache server user and you can’t tell who is driving the box into the ground. At least, not so easily. So, I’ll adapt.

As it stands, I’ve now used it to properly reinstall Mediawiki; after their installer finished, it was a simpler matter to move my old database over and run an upgrade on the schema. I’ve also installed Gallery2 for my photograph collection, although it’s not populated yet. Also installed (though manually, since it’s not in their installer) is Pixelpost, to more immediately start to share some of the more interesting shots I’ve taken. My photos are going up on <cact.us>.