Enough with taking breaks. I installed WordPress and mucked around with it a bit, then decided that although it’s nice, it’s going to take a lot more mucking around before I can make it live and put it up on my homepage, meaning, here, of course. In some ways it seems overly simplified: I like my “advanced” user options and configurability. I like easy-to-edit templates and having to use Server-Side-Includes. On the other hand, with WordPress I can enable comments finally, so that the nonexistent people who view this site can write deeply expository missives upon… I’m not sure what. But maybe they will, and this site will become a think-tank for future world policy, technology, health, and all sorts of important social issues. On the other hand, perhaps they will simply write single word comments such as “*drool*” and “poo”, which a certain person whose name starts with ‘Z’ tends to do.

There’s a cat here, now. My little sister’s cat, actually. He’s a gray one-year-old silver tabby who doesn’t have a definite name yet, doesn’t mind being handled and is friendly in that sense but doesn’t seek out human contact, and who jumps up on all the windowsills of the house one at a time and meowls loudly, wanting to go outside. But there are all sorts of dangers outside for a feline of his stature, such as a bunch of stray cats who fight at night. One lives under the house, and its eye was injured, presumably in a fight, though it looked better the last we saw it.

I transcribed the “B” background music from the Gameboy Tetris game, which sounds rather nice when sythesized on a piano. I’ll upload it when I work on it some more and iron out some kinks.

My grandfather passed away the week before last, and I said a few words his funeral. He was a good man, and perhaps I will post what I said, here.

WordPress supposedly had a “post in the future” option, whereby one could write an article and put it in a bin for automatic posting at a certain date/time. I liked the idea of that feature, but couldn’t find it in the program as distributed. WordPress also has a “post by email” feature, which is incredibly simplistic in its controls. I fail to see how this would work without several more options, and in fact when I set it up to check a particular mailbox and mailed something there, nothing happened. There’s no test feature or log which could help in debugging the issue, either.

I also see some WordPress sites which have a graph showing “posting by time of day”. That’s pretty neat. It fits in with my Birthday Histogram, somewhat. All my postings would probably show up at about 4 AM. Although I’m typing this at noon, so perhaps that thought isn’t valid anymore.

Does a plugin for Firefox exist which saves the contents of form fields as you type in them? If not, someone ought to write one.

I’m liking Trillian 3 better than Gaim, at least for the moment. Both have annoying behaviors, but Trillian has fewer. For example, when a message is received, Gaim flashes the window in the taskbar either indefinitely, or not at all (depending on a setting). Trillian only flashes it a specified number of times, and then it remains solid. There’s nothing like a flashing thing on your screen to annoy you, but you might not want to interrupt what you were doing to respond to an instant message, therefore, the flashing issue was insufferable.

There, don’t you now want to write some earth-shattering words of wisdom as feedback to this entry? Come on, I know you do. But you can’t! Yet, that is…