Monthly Archive for March, 2007

Sketches

Nobleman

doodle

I’ve been mooching about on historic costume image galleries. I always find if I’m stuck for a bit of inspiration, which can happen a lot, that these old source books can be great. I have quite a few ‘public domain’ books full of engravings of historical dress and architecture myself. Dover Press has a cool collection, and no they didn’t pay me to say that.

It’s been an odd week, full of ups and downs and a lot of late nights.. and I didn’t get the holiday I’d planned to take, but hopefully I’ll kicking back over Easter and taking a few days off that week to take full advantage of bookending it with bank holidays, so I can stretch a four day weekend out into ooohhh….. 11 days. Yahooooo. I’m thinking about taking the time to do what I had intended to do over Christmas and revamp the site. It may mean that the structure of the site itself changes, as I’ve been thinking about putting wordpress into the root of the domain. Currently everything in the site is in /blog2… which made sense when I’d just converted from Blogger all those years ago… but it doesn’t make a great deal of sense now.

I want to hang the front page off wordpress, and now I can do that there seems to really good reason to have a flash entry page. Plus, I kinda want to get rid of this flash header as it slows the gallery script down. Plus, I’m just plain bored of it and I want to get my web interest back up and running. I’ve been complacant and inactive on a personal work front for far too long.

Things May Get Strange….

Around here today.

I’m about to upgrade the site to WordPress 2.1 and the latest K2 release. So if there’s any WTFOMG !! aspect to it, just chill and come back later.

[Edit]

Oookay. That’s all done. And bloody painless it was too, and I added some visual frippery. You like? No? Well tough, it’s all about me :p .

Sooo, there’s going to be some new stuff added to the galleries shortly, and a lot more ingame work to be added. Huzzah! See, it’s not that I’ve been idle, just busy.

[yet another edit]

Ok, hopefully you wordpress whizzes out there will be able to answer this one. Why the hell are there less options for managing link categories in 2.1 than there was in 2.0 ? I used to be able to set link categories to show a random selection of links in a given category up to a defined number. Now all I get is the ability to name a category and add a description. Wtf? I don’t want screeds of links down the side of the page, but neither do I want to be forced to delete a ton of them just for the sake of asthetics.