the construct :: weblog

I’ve had this design/working on it on and off in spare moments. I just wanted something new for summer. Recently I really like penguins, then I find more inspiration while browsing through BearSkinRug, so I decided to through it into the design. I was going for a really clean simple look for now. I’m sure I’ll be changing. Until then, I will name this design penguin v.1.

Hey! Another new design! I’m currently still working out the bugs with this one but I wanted it to go live because I didn’t like using that theme anymore. I wanted to use my own work, so now that is what you see.

Let me know in the comments if there is problems. Make sure to tell me what internet browser you are using. Thanks

Ohkay, I wanted something new for alittle bit until I create my new thing. I found this theme over at alexking.org’s theme browser for Wordpress 1.5. I really loved this for a break in the design.

I’ve been starting on and off a new design… this will hold out for awhile. Enjoy while it’s here.

By the way, the theme is Green Marinee by, Ian Main over at e-lusion.com

Everybody, if you are into weblogging and can install your own system, I would HIGHLY recommend WordPress 1.5

For a bunch of reasons I would recommend it, yet most of them you can read on the WordPress website. There are lots of new features in version 1.5. One that I am extremely happy and stoked about is the Theme System. I was just able to make my design a theme in a matter of about 5 minutes. It was so easy. Granted there is alot more I can do and will do, nonetheless it makes it easy to release new designs and switch things up really easy.

Anyways, I’m just getting into figuring out how to use all the new features, so this site is a work in progress at the moment.

So howdy, I havn’t had much to post recently because I’ve been busy with that whole thing called college. It’s quite an awesome time. I’m also working on a couple other projects that I will release shortly, till then, have a look at the recent links on the sidebar, as well as the other sections of this site.

**EDIT**
I’m now using the aweome WordPress 1.5 “Strayhorn” It’s really awesome so far. You may have noticed the look has changed, I’ll still be working on things for alittle bit.

I just wanted to mention a few site things that I have finally been able to fix and/or add.

For one, the all important search bar up there in the top right. I love search bars. They are the most usable thing on websites in my mind. It’s especially handy for me.

The “Recent Links” in the sidebar there. I’ve been looking into way to put my del.icio.us links on my site. Finally after checking out the WordPress Wiki and finding out the plugins section was updated, I was able to easily implement it. Now you readers will have some more stuff to browse around on the internet.

Fixed the comment template look aswell as the archives page. Certain things weren’t showing up at all, so I finally fixed them up so they are there.

I added some more resources to the about page that may be handy to you.

I’ve also been thinking recently about redesigning, yet I still really like this design, so I’ll probably just keep on tinkering with it till it’s at a place that I am really happy with.

This is the sky today. It’s been off and on raining and generally cold. Very unlike southern california winter. Usually it is sunny and like 80 degrees. All well.

I’ve decided to try and take more photos of the sky… maybe like a once a day thing. I don’t know we’ll see. I also have some thoughts about designing lately, and I wish I had some money to start up my clothing company. I just need to sell my car. If anybody knows of or wants a 1991 BMW 318i 5-speed sedan in red, let me know. I need to sell it.

Over the past 8 hours I have now accumulated about 113 spam comments for online poker and all that crap. Sorry it if bugs you, I’ll be getting rid of them and trying to find a solution to killing it.

It’s also kinda cool cause now I feel like the internet actually knows about this weblog. I get about 600 unique visitors per month which is pretty cool, yet along with that comes the blasted comment spam bots.

*Update 12-28-04
I modified my settings in this here Wordpress 1.2 and it is working so far by adding in the “typical spam words” as well as adding some more moderation to the comments. I’ll also be installing spam stopgap extreme in a bit to see how that works.

By the way, don’t be afraid to comment now. I’m just protecting agains bots and code that reaks havok to my comments, not people.

I never thought that I would be able to do it, yet I have. I have reached my 16 gb bandwidth limit on my host. The graph above has my two largest consumers of bandwidth. This weblog, and my sincity.adion44.com | fan site That site takes up so much bandwidth because for the last couple months I have been hosting a comicon trailer for the movie that couldn’t be found anywhere else. Yet now I have taken that movie down and linked up to the official trailer on apple.com.

I was absolutely shocked to get the message “Bandwidth limit exceeded” when I tryed to log on last night. I’m sorry if you got the same message. Everything should be alright for now.

This is a little late for the holiday shopping season, yet I thought it would be helpful to create and online shopping portal to popular and cool shopping sites. Thus I introduce to you the (beta) version of the shopping portal (constructds.com/amazon)

If you do online shopping this little portal site that I have thrown together will give you quick acess to Amazon.com and PosterDome.com. (posters and t-shirts) Go ahead and use this for all your Amazon and related shopping needs. It supports my poor college life.