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I’ve finally gotten a fair bit of content up on the newly redone stormtrooperguy.com.

I’m moving all of the non-photo content into MediaWiki. I need to learn the app for another project, so what better way to learn?

Setup was trivial, customizing the theme has been simple… So far, I couldn’t be happier! I found a theme that was similar to what I wanted then adjusted. It’s nowhere near complete yet, but it’s getting there.

And already it’s way less painful to update content. I’ve got registrations turned off, so no worries about other people editing my posts like on a real public wiki.

http://www.stormtrooperguy.com/workshop/

Expect lots of changes over the next couple of weeks.

the openair skin for wordpress does transparency in a neat way. rather than an opacity/alpha filter CSS property, it sets the background to transparent with a tiled background. the tiled background is a 75% opaque white png file.

if the browser supports that, it looks great.

if the browser doesn’t support the transparency (or translucency i suppose?), it just shows up as white.

i’ll have to remember that. i like that better than the opacity property, since then other elements within that div are still properly opaque (like photos).

OS X blogging client that looks to be about what I like.

http://illuminex.com/ecto

I’ve never been fond of using the web interface for LJ, and the same holds true for WordPress. From looking at the various Mac clients out there, this one looks the best. But, the Mac is packed right now, and I don’t want to pull it out.

Another step along the path to blogification.

I set up Drivel on my Linux box to post over to my WordPress blog. The wordpress connects to the LJ, and the LJ connects to the Facebook.

I’m not really interested in linking Twitter into all of this. I don’t think I really need to do that, at least this not at the moment.

Good times… good times…