Plaidophile

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Five pounds? Six pounds? Seven pounds?

Here's a writeup which should at least help other people get MovableType (or anything else which is based on or can otherwise embed PHP) and phpBB working together, if they so desire.

It's not difficult (especially if you already have phpBB set up and working), but it's time-consuming.

2008/03/31 Note that I'm not actively developing this anymore. Notably I have no plans of upgrading it to work with phpBB 3.

2005/02/22 Added a 'url' column to the table; now recent discussion can work a bit better for people who use fancy-pants archive URLs (at least for new installations; if anyone needs help populating their table for existing installations just let me know).

2004/07/02 Added some more anti-spam measures.

2004/11/20 Some more wording changes to hopefully clear up a few parts of the installation.

Couple of things... first, I participated in this week's Frontalittle Squad entry at Songfight, but like pretty much every IRC-based Songfight thing, it's mostly unfunny inside jokes so don't bother listening to it unless you, like, pay really close attention to Songfight. Or something. Also, my verse sucks.

Other neat thing is that Bryan finally posted his cover of Fool in the Middle (which is pretty good, though he changed it into basically a different song with the same lyrics — not like I'm one to talk in that regard, of course), and also said that he liked my cover of Blue Signal a lot (and that he was originally going to do the Babelfish thing on it too but decided not to).

I slept a lot more than usual last night, and with it came more dreams than usual.

The moment we were all waiting for...

Based loosely^* on actual events on October 9.

Hung out with the people in the department I interviewed at at a bar. Downtown Johnstown is beautiful. The city is great. Everyone involved hopes I get this job, so it seems extremely likely.

Also, J and I are working on reconciliation, so I've unpublished the respective weblog entry just to keep things simpler for everyone involved.

(And remember, you can't spell "reconciliation" without cilia.)

1. The interview went very well and they will be making me an offer in two weeks after they do the full research into what I'm worth (they have a fixed payscale based on experience and skills)
2. Animal control found Shooby this morning (after three weeks)

Las cruces → El Paso (drive)
El Paso → Houston (full jet)
Houston → Pittsburgh (commuter jet)
Pittsburgh → Altoona (tiny dual prop plane)
20-minute layover in Altoona (due to some weird government subsidy issue)
Altoona → Johnstown (same tiny dual prop plane)

HIV hitting young at rate of one every 14 seconds:

The spread of Aids among adolescents may significantly slow the growth of the world's population, a United Nations report warned yesterday.

They make that sound like such a bad thing!

I really hate doing the whole "weblogging about weblogging" thing, but man, this implementation of LJ-style user pictures is really cool. I might experiment with it on here eventually, when various issues have been worked out.

When making Cajun food, particularly soups and stews, it is vitally important to have a good, consistent, nicely-toasted roux. The darker the roux, the more flavorful, but also the more difficult.

If you listen to SongFight, you may have heard Blind Mime's The Blue Signal entry.

For the most recent Coverfight, I was assigned to cover Blind Mime, and so I elected to take a totally different take on the song.