ThePanda

The previously mentioned changes seem to be upon us, with a shift to Textpattern, and I plan on keeping this alive for longer than my previous ill-fated experiment with MoveableType, for one I am on a more stable server base, and am more likely to not back out, since I don’t have to do any funky copying or anything to get my words out, that was one of the biggest problems I was faced with after I lost space on Pauridge and was forced to shift over to my project space on Sourceforge, since on Sourceforge files inside of htdocs could not directly write out to htdocs itself (trouble with permissions), thus forcing me to juggle with copying files and stuff, and well I had far more time then than I do now, I was really really bored back then (true of current instance, but this lasts for like another 6 days or less), and things were beginning to settle down after the disaster that leaving school had brought, and umm playing around with computers was comforting, a source of constancy.

OK so I am not promising that there will not be a drastic cut in the number of posts within a week or so, that unfortunately has more to do with me biting off a lot more than I can chew, than this shift to Textpattern. Anyways continuing with my appreciation for TextPattern, I absolutely love Texile, which is like this non-markupish language which TextPattern seems to be promoting, yay no more triangular brackets, no more worrying about those things, no more worrying about most things, wooohoooooooo… I must also say I have gotten little (as compared to my usualy copious amounts) of sleep since yesterday when I began playing around with this installation, and I just realized that all the past entries had been meshed together into one whole block of text rather than continue as little paragraph like things, and that is sort of my fault, so if anyone hadn’t yet read them, and wants a more readable version, might I suggest moseying over to my Blogger archives or e-mailing me and stuff. Ooh and new hosting place provides cool SMTP, POP3 e-mail access for accounts on my domain, implying I can finally make real [at] thepanda [dot] org e-mail addresses for myself, though I think I’ll hold off on that for a while.

The template is still not final, I doubt it really ever will be, I am not sure I like the image used for the header, which is pretty much a rip off of the image on the original template I was modifying to come up with this one, I admit very little has been modified, and therefore acknowledgment at bottom remains as such, the academic code having reinforced such things as attribution. I realize no CC notice has gone up yet, nor has any copyright information, I plan on putting that up soon, perhaps as soon as I finish this entry, though I am alternating between jittery, over-excited, and tired and sleepy (unaided caffeine high, weird), so that may affect such promises. The disclaimer, and the advertising section is being done away with (I will put up a button for the next MIT survey), and I am attempting other cool things over the next week, whee a week to play with a CMS and continue watching TV shows, a week to being back at Brown, a week to the beginning of next year, a week to return to doing cool research, yay….

Ze Panda

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