It’s true

You guys know all about the silly new fad that let’s people know what your doing every second of every day called Twitter, right? Well, since I set one up to help people follow the progress of Project Vega, I decided to look for a WordPress widget that would display some of my latest posts. And so I found this plugin called………….wait for it…….Twitter for WordPress. Now you can see my last 3 tweets in the sidebar under the Archives. Pretty neat, I guess

Oh and sometime soon I’m hoping to update the theme (ala suggestions and fixes Jimmy91 brought up a while back). I would have done it before now, but I’ve been too busy. Speaking of which, I’ve got some Vega stuff to work on

Well then, anything look different around here? I certainly hope so

So in a little less than 3 days worth of work, I have created my very own, from-scratch WordPress theme using this guide for the skeleton, GIMP for all of the graphics, and lots and lots of trail/error and Googling for code. The scheme I finally settled on actually fits me very well. If you can’t tell, it’s a grey/gold/brown-ish scheme with a pretty standard layout. I got a little fancier than I originally planned with how the graphics were laid out, but I must say I really impressed myself. I love the colors and tones; I kinda wanted to stay away from blue this time around since that’s what I always tend to lean towards…and it’s boring to me now . The irony in all of this is that the layout actually ended up being about the same width as the old Mekworx theme; it got squished as I was screwing around with the style sheet

Anyways, the name of the theme is “Selinite”, and yes, it is available for download! You can grab it here: Selinite v1.0.

This version of the theme doesn’t have the banner; instead it has the regular text with your blog’s info underneath. It’s simple enough to add your own banner if you wish though. Please feel free to use it however you please, just as long as I get some credit! Now just to warn you, there are probably numerous issues. I’ve already spotted a few oddities that will require fixing soon. I’ll be sure to post an update to the theme when I make fixes though.

I hate to end on a sad note, but in case you haven’t heard, our beloved Espi passed away a few days ago. I had been following his blog posts at Doomworld quite a bit. He had some sort of cancer in his arm, which he had to have amputated shorty thereafter. A while after that it seemed he was doing pretty well. But then a month or so back, he was having even more problems due to the cancer spreading and causing complications. I’m not terribly sure on the details, but it must have gotten pretty bad. Unfortunately he succumbed to the cancer and died in his sleep on Saturday, 8/29/09. I would have had this theme up and running sooner, but I’ve been playing Suspended in Dusk and Back to Basics in honer of Espi. Rest in peace bud, we will all miss you very dearly

The Mekworx theme that I made (with lots of help and trial/error) still pleases me. Except for one thing: it’s too narrow. I wanted it to be wider than it is now but I couldn’t really figure it out during my last fit of theme tweaking. Well I’m just making this post to say that I will be looking into this issue in the coming days. So if the site looked f’d up or if it’s using the default wordpress theme, then that’s why.

Geez, they’ve been updating WordPress a bunch lately. Anywho, Mekworx is now running 2.8.4