I am a: Quirky sysadmin. Geek. Gamer. Comic fangirl. My little space, my home on the interwebs. I blog about personal stuffs, work, various coding projects, and anything else I feel like.

Boy, such a flurry of events have been whirling around me and my kin lately! An American Visit Friday I chaperoned Jessie’s class field trip to American Village in Montevallo. Even with the bad weather coming through (tornadoes and rain galore, yuck!), we still had a very good time. And I tell ya, I really […]

I was contacted a while back by Barbara Weibel, a very nice lady with a question about a WordPress theme modification. She wanted to know the best way to add a set of rotating images into the header — not like the rotating images php scripts that have been making the rounds for the last […]

Most anyone who’s been messing around with webpages and HTML over the past few years I’m sure is familiar with the concept of pre-loading images. If you have a rollover effect (for instance, mouseover effects on a menu bar), it makes good sense to pre-load your images so that the effect shows up immediately when […]

Working on my most recent side project, I’ve had to brush up on my Blogger/Blogspot coding. One of the things requested of me was to find a way to have a static front page on a Blogger site. WordPress has this feature built-in, but Blogger currently does not. :wallbash_tb: I know of two ways that […]

I spent pretty much every waking moment I had at home this weekend trying to wrap my head around the new comment loop in WordPress 2.7. Otto’s detailed explanation was helpful, but did not give me a way to “break down” the new wp_list_comments function. Finally frustrated, I hit the WordPress forums and mailing lists. […]

Several people have asked about the Palin/Biden button in my sidebar. The original layout was courtesy of my Cotillion sister, CalTech Girl. I smoothed out the fonts a bit and played with the layout. A couple of y’all have asked me to do some customizations and I thought, “Sure … Why not let everyone have […]