Archive for the ‘ Site Updates & Announcements ’ Category

What I’m Watching

I added a plugin that shows what movie I’m currently watching (or at least about to watch).  It also lists the last five movies I viewed.  I’m only displaying stuff from Netflix or theatres (not that I’ve been to a movie theatre since Episode III came out).  So now you know.

Still working on a “now reading” function.

New Theme

I picked out my new theme & I was planning to go straight into heavy modification, but the coolness (or dorkiness) of this style sheet was just too much. 

What I’m Reading

I added a neat little menu section about what I’m currently reading. In theory, once I finish a book I can blog a review of it and then replace the “What I’m Reading” with what I’m actually reading.

In theory.

I’ve been meaning to post my review of [u]The Pirate Coast[/u] for a while now.

Theory > Practice, eh?

Streaming Music

I added a feature that allows for streaming music. I’ve got a list of some of my favorite songs. I’ll be updating it as time goes by. Feel free to let me know what you think.

Special thanks to Nate (garbunzl) for hooking me up with some great php code!

Ready to go live

I’ve got one more slight fix on the main blog and then I’ll be ready to go live. Following the game of softball set for this afternoon I’ll send out the e-mail announcing the site’s existence.

Some upgrades

I’m edging closer to taking this thing live & sending out emails to friends & family about it. I put in a hack for the skin you see on my blog that only allows registered users to post comments. I’ve been trying to write a similar hack for the family blog but keep running into problems…

I’m also looking for a plugin or a hack that’ll allow me to put a poll in the blogs.