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Welcome back.
I've decided (as you can see below) to ditch the old code that powered this site, opting instead to use something "off-the-shelf".

I've settled on a blog engine called "logahead", and it mixes all the Web2.0 goodness one can want, with enough elbow room for tinkering "under the hood".

To the right, you will notice the image. This is accomplished using PHP libGD, CSS, and the Flickr PHP Response Format. Every time the page loads, a script on the back-end requests a random image from my Flickr account, resizes it, and applies an overlay, presenting it to you as an image.

I've also thrown together widgets for Last.fm and Twitter.
All told, I've invested less than 24 hours in the project. Pretty good, eh?

Bugs:

The overlay image has "fuzzy corners". This is because I suck at photo editing.
The dynamic image has bad "math". When it pulls and image where height > width, it doesn't properly center.
The "live search" returns different results (try it, type in christmas, wait for the live results, then press return, get the non-live search results)
The Archive sidebar widget sorts backwards. This should be an easy fix, but changing the sort order from ASC to DESC breaks it..
The spacing of the links in the header is screwy, CSS edit
And finally, due to some CSS wonkiness, the "tabs" at the top have a thin band of background visible.

ToDo:

Pop Twitter widget out as its own div element, position is someplace interesting
Fix Bugs.
Write super creative mod_rewrite rule to fix old "permalinks" to new home.
update googlemap
Inject twitter /de.licio.us/other crap into RSS feed.
Move/Organize/link all the code snippets

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