Tidbits
Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…
A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles. I wanna play!
Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places. 2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.
A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…
An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies. I smell a lawsuit.
Will trade beer for Crumpler bags. Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…
Photos
Playing with Expression Engine
January 15, 2007, 3:06 am
Ok, so I gave in and installed a third-party blog package. With all these wonderful blogging software out there, I really can’t justify the time to re-invent the wheel. I decided to use Expression Engine because it seemed to give the most flexibility and control. It basically serves as the middle layer between your database and the layout. You create templates, stick in the code for accessing the DB, and you’re done. It reminds me a lot of asp, in that I’m now working with HTML and EE expressions. But EE also simplifies all the database stuff as well.
Did I mention this saves me a lot of time? I spend a good chuck of the weekend converting my static blog over, and even with all the backend logic avaliable, it still took me a lot of time. And this is just setting up the basics: entries, comments, archives. And there are so many other things left to do: better archive page, rss feeds, sticking in other info like my blog and photo gallery list. If I had to do everything from scratch, I will never get it done. Especially now, when I find that my time is not my own anymore.
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Comments (6)
But best of all, I get to COMMENT! Congratulations for joining us in the real world 
Who rolls their own blogging software anymore, seriously? (Besides my friend Thai who does everything in HTML..)
Yeah, except it shows the world your email address. Sigh, better go change that now..
Oh is THAT why I’ve been getting so much more spam now…
Ha, you should go back to all the places you commented on to see if they show your email address. You can’t blame me though cause your email was only live for about 24 hours.. 
Actually, the places I typically comment on don’t require email as a field. (Why do you, btw? Can’t change the option? The spam protection isn’t enough?)
I think the email thing might be part of registration, in that the name may not be unique, but the email should be unique between visitors. I just copied-paste from a template..
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