“Oderint, Dum Metuant”

“Let them hate, so long as they fear”

— attributed to Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
more commonly known as Caligula,
Emperor of Rome from 37-41

He was described as insane, tyrannical, evil…  Hard to say how much was exaggeration because there is so much of history that is fragmentary from then, and also evidence of the invention of “yellow journalism”, but there had to be some level of insanity and some level of cruelty there as a cause for the stories.  Something to hang that on.  And the Romans weren’t really known for their niceness, especially their emperors.

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Been Tunnelling in the Code…

After getting moblogging working last week (as you can read with the four short posts that finally went through) I decided to get this poor theme working with widgets in preparation for making my own themes from scratch.

The act of making widgets work was interesting, because I ran into a limitation with the theme I’ve modified into what you’re looking at/I’m currently using.  Kubrick has a dynamic menu generation that includes some extra PHP in the sidebar that isn’t cleanly commented.  And contrary to other’s opinions of me, I don’t code.  I monkey with script.  So the functions are a blurry mess to me.

Essentially, to make my own theme I should get widgets working, but to get widgets working I must get my own theme.

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I Can’t Resist… Blogging Via

I can’t resist… Blogging via text messaging is gonna be hard to resist… Like potato chips, or taiwan hookers, one ain’t enough. ‘Cept b4

edit: “b4″ should be “for the character limit, I might be able to make a post worthwhile.”  Damn technological limitations…

Mobloggin’ Test

Well, it works.  I am able to post from my cell phone or from an e-mail account.  Now I just have to figure out how to get the mail-checker automagic.

In case anyone is interested, check out: Blog_by_Email, you will need to get your hands dirty.

When you attempt to MoBlog from WordPress, don’t send the messages from Google’s gmail unless you want it to look like this: 

Content-Disposition: inline

Hrm…  This didn’t work last test, but then again I did it f=
rom my cell phone…
Maybe this time it’ll work.

Sk=e5ll!!!

Have fun, readers!!!

Skåll!!!

Edit: The automagic works now.  The Blog_by_Email link has a trick with an iframe.

MoBloggin’ Test – From My

MoBloggin’ test – from my cell phone. Gaw, I hope this one works.