Mr Happys online journal

After a bit of delaying – having the responsibility for upgrading and not killing all the blogs here at equatorlive.com was huuuggggeee. thought it was best to give shout outs to everyone online who helped with this:

• ficial.wordpress.com – for giving me the basic outline of what to do
• WordPress Mu Upgrade tag thread – whole host of info I found in here was invaluable

TY to all – and if you find any bugs in this new installation gimme a shout.
Mr Happy

Just heard from Blog Herald that Reddit is now available as open source software. This is cool, I use pligg for digg style websites when I need to develop them but will be giving the reddit platform a wee go now that I have choice.
The best thing about the redit platform is the cool little logo they’ve made:

hahaha – good going guys.

I guess its kinda like the force – the Jedi have the force and the Sith have the Dark Side of the force. Some people call the cool div pop-ups you get on websites containing images, text or other media as light boxes or shadow boxes (I’ve now renamed these as ‘Jedi Boxes’ and ‘Sith Boxes’).
Anyway I like these and Nick just sent me a link to a quick how-to-guide which is great as I’d been trying to rip them from sites for a while but as my JavaScript skills are more padawan than Jedi Master I needed as much help as possible.

Have Fun!

Umbraco is an open source CMS for .net 2.0 – a strange thing in itself with Dot Net stuff normally being expensive and rarely free. So when DotNetDave started talking about Umbraco I was hugely interested – I generally only code (badly) in php so having an open source CMS solution in Dot Net looked like something that could give me a starting point to mess about with .net code – cheers to the guys at Oyster Web for giving me some .net hosting space for free to mess about with.
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