August 8th, 2008
I’m posting this for a friend who asked about the gallery images in the sidebar of this site. Refresh the page, and you get 3 new random thumbnails. It’s fun. I could do it for hours, stumbling on pictures I haven’t seen in ages. How’d I do it? A simple script dropped into WordPress and a little-known feature of the Gallery2 application.
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August 6th, 2008
Today marks the eleventh anniversary of Silkworms.com. It’s odd that I noticed. I was tooling around with this WordPress install yesterday, and a conversation lead me to point out that Silkworms must be over ten years old by now. So I Whois’ed myself this morning and realized it’s eleven years to the day. My internal clock seems to be finely tuned to chime on geekly milestones. Amazing.
To celebrate the birthday, I’m launching a new blog here. I don’t intend to migrate the 100+ blog-like posts that have accumulated on Silkworms over the years. Why? A combination of reasons.
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