this is so not my fault. "make a barbie battlebot skin" he says. then he says it again, there was definitely repetition.
and then it happened. the dreaded *idea*.
it's not so much a barbie battlebot skin, as a question: art or artifice? (at least that's what it was saying circa four a.m.) (it is much less serious now in the light of day). what do you think?.
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incidentally, here's the original of the left side bottom image:
and you know geeking out heavily is a good sign, right?
so i did the skins, & yes, the beach is back.
in the process, i rediscovered how much it annoys me to have all the cgi pages unskinned -- the trackback popups, the comment preview & error templates, & the search pages. out of sight, sure, but not out of mind. not out of mine, at least.
so i searched, and i searched. none of the usual suspects had anything on this, but with all the dynamic template object plugin fanciness going on out there these days, well ... it's both quaint & archaic that i've gone & solved my old skinned cgi page problem now, isn't it?
i don't know why i didn't think of this long, long ago - the skin is a cookie, yes? cookies work in cgi pages, with javascript they do, yeppers. so it was as not-so-easy as grabbing the cookie-getter script off the comments popup page, telling it to go find the skin cookie, & then writing ugly annoying document.write(' ... ') statements (badly - this is something i do badly) wherever something needed skinning.
i've included an example, just for the heck of it.
you may know there is a google interface in tlhIngan Hol? yeppers. so if you knew that, you probably know that you can read hamlet, much ado about nothing, and various sonnets by the great klingon playwright wIlyam SeQpIr, as they were intended to be read, right? .
they don't have my favorite sonnet, which is a khesterex thath, don't you think? i mean Q'est.
i am sitting here, gazing blissfully at my lyrics database. at http://localhost/list.php. mmhmm. i have apache. i have php. i have mysql. and i have them running on my sweet lil' win2k box, right here. it's unbelievably sexy.
ok i need to go geek out heavily.
