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Whew, time to start writing again!

Sean — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:19:46 +0000

Just wanted to share with everyone that the new site theme for Retro Otaku is finished and has been uploaded. There are still a few bugs to sort out (particularly with the image galleries), but it’s looking very nice. Please feel free to have a look!

The good news is that I can start getting back into writing, rather than coding/designing Though the next two posts will be WordPress related as I’d like to share some fixes/tips I’ve picked up from the new themes I’ve put together, so indulge me a little longer

Giving the blog a facelift

Sean — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:18:04 +0000

I’ve been toying with the idea for a little while now about giving the blog a facelift and incorporate a few new tricks I’ve picked up over the last couple of months toying with a bit of ASP, implementing some jQuery scripts and picking up a few advanced-ish CSS tricks at work…

And yes, I know that WordPress uses PHP as its main scripting language, but some of the principles behind scripting within ASP (though to be honest, I actually cut my teeth on XSLT, and everything’s been a bit easier to understand since then!) can still be applied to PHP – a scripting language is a scripting language, you learn some of the principles and apply it to the situation, and sometimes your code works, sometimes (more often since I’m still learning!) it kinda breaks everything Or is that just me? I guess that’s the problem when you’re a bit of a self-taught backyarder when it comes to coding

Anywho, I’ll probably start toying with some ideas for design changes and some new functions/features soon-ish. If anyone knows of any really progressive and stylish blogs or blog designs (self-promotion is fine ), let me know in the comments. I don’t know when I’ll put time aside to start fleshing out some new ideas and compile some new toys for the blog, but I figured if I actually post about it, it might encourage me to actually do something about it instead of just thinking about it Plus I haven’t built a local testbed since re-installing my O/S a while back, so I’ll have to get off my behind and get onto that too!

… and we’re back!

Sean — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:31:16 +0000

Apologies for (a) the downtime last week, and (b) the lack of blogs of late. The former was due to some issues with my hosting provider affecting my site and apparently a number of others on the same server as they migrated to newer hardware – seems to be back up and running now, which is good.

As for the latter, last week was the lead-up to my little brother’s wedding (of which I was the best man), so I was spending my evening working on my speech or trying to be a useful brother to the groom. I’m pleased to say the day/night was awesome and brill, I couldn’t be happier to see my brother and his wife (and my sister-in-law) tie the knot and get hitched

While I won’t have time to elaborate too much more tonight (dinner isn’t too far away!), I have a couple of topics I’m looking forward to exploring on my blog – my latest leg-mangling incident over the weekend, doing karate/martial arts on one leg and a couple of stupid photos for good measure Oh, and the latest round of work to my prosthesis. I also have some catch-up work to do and see what my fellow bloggers have been writing about, too!

Stay tuned!

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IE6 problems now fixed

Sean — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:06:22 +0000

If you’re still using a rubbish browser like IE6, you’ll be pleased to know that the site now displays correctly on your 9 year old POS browser It wasn’t all that complicated, it just involved some hacks to compensate for IE’s out of date box model as far as CSS goes. For nerdy types, Wikipedia has an entry on it here.

For the most part, the site runs fine on IE6 now – the only differences are the lack of alpha-blending on PNGs and the image galleries are all single-column instead of two columns.

If you find any more bugs, let me know. As an alternative, you could always migrate to a standards-compliant brower like Firefox

Oops, its broken in IE6 :P

Sean — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:09:39 +0000

Just tried out the site in IE6 – its totally borked. Stupid Microsoft and its stupid box model. If you’re viewing this in IE6, erm… use another browser, like Firefox or Google Chrome or something I’ll try and fix the css soon, but in the meantime, use a browser that’s actually standards compliant That’s my excuse anyways.

… I think I’m done :P

Sean — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:38:17 +0000

It’s 1am, I totally need to go to bed

Anywho, looks like I’ve finished wrapping up the remaining stuff I wanted to do – image galleries are up with a nice little drop-down menu (works in FF3, not sure about other browsers yet), About page is up to date and all my previous blog posts have made it over. The only thing missing is getting the image titles and captions working with the plugins. I’ll sort that out over the next couple of weeks if I remember to get off my arse and check it out

So, welcome to my blog. Hopefully it won’t suck

Whew, time to start writing again!

Blog archive completed!

Sean — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:06:56 +0000

Finally finished archiving the old blogs. Took bloody long enough. Ah well, it’s getting there. Still have to migrate over all the images though… and work out how to call the galleries and stuff. And get a few other things tweaked as well. In other circumstances, I probably would have had it finished by the end of the week, but there’s plenty happening at the moment, so can’t see that happening

Getting there…

Sean — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:15:42 +0000

Alright, I got through a few pages of old blog entries last night, time to work on the next lot…

Bloody hell I blogged a lot in 2007

Erm, hello world :P

Sean — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:54:37 +0000

Alright, this is my first post If you’ve come back this far, I suggest you look elsewhere on the site for some more content! I’ll be adding some more general info pages in the next few days, and will start transferring over my old blog posts in a bit as well. So yeah, welcome, I hope this works, and my apologies for any kinks in the system, as I’m still settinseveral bits and pieces of it up