New Blog Theme

Posted by knorby on December 26, 2008 under blogs, wordpress | 4 Comments to Read

I decided to use a new theme. I am not very happy with the new one, but it fixes a few bugs that were in the last one, and creates a whole bunch of new ones. The sidebar RSS feeds aren’t displaying for one. There are some links placed at the bottom of the page. The color scheme is different, which I don’t mind terribly; I generally prefer black(ish) backgrounds, but a lot of partial html content sets the font color to black, which has been a problem a couple of times. I will look into the RSS feed problem at some point and fix up the easy stuff, but I don’t like spending a lot of time on themes; CSS is annoying, but php software themes are a crime against nature (not tied to the medium, just the coders who make them). I really wanted to add in gravatars (should set up an account if you haven’t already) to the comments, which was added in wordpress 2.6 or something, and there wasn’t an update to the the theme I was using. It is a simple fix to the comment template, but I was thinking of switching because of other problems anyway, and, as I said, I hate working on the wordpress themes. So, the appearance might change a bit some in the future, but don’t count on it.

DOIT is now on twitter!

Posted by knorby on December 1, 2008 under Python, internet | Be the First to Comment

I was in need of a break from work, so I finally got around to implementing DOIT of the Day on twitter! For those not familiar with DOIT jokes, they are a set of jokes from USENET, or even before that. A while ago, I started maintaining a fortune database, which I wrote about here. I haven’t gotten around to packaging it up for various Linux distros yet, but I will eventually. So, you can now get your daily fill of DOIT jokes from twitter. Non-twitters can DOIT with RSS.

I wrote a couple of python script/libraries to auto-follow followers (CPAN was having some problems, so I didn’t use a perl script someone else had already written) and a fortune->twitter script. I will clean those up at some point soon and put them up somewhere.