fuzzylemon.net 10-04-2001

Images link to the larger versions. Some are quite big.

The fuzzy. First started out as a static html page that grew to be a beast. I had no idea what dynamic web pages were. I did most of it in Home Site or Dreamweaver. It wasn’t very good. I read up on Perl and PHP and fuzzylemon was revamped. Friends and I would post articles. Friends became bored with it, the novelty wore off and so eventually it was just left to me.

Eventually someone emailed me and asked, “hey you should move to a blog format”. I shortly did thereafter. It was good advice. I didn’t know what a blog was at the time.

It quickly became a decent php project with authentication, theming, mysql datastore. It also was a pain in the ass to maintain.

fuzzylemon.net 05-30-2002

Theming worked and we all were sick of the white on blue. Was hard to read.

I got this shot off of archive.org and it didn’t have most of the pictures saved. It was pretty much white and gray throughout. Posting was slowing down. We all had jobs and it was just a toy for me.

Some of the rants got some outside attention and got quoted. But who wants to read a site that bitches all the time about everything?

The content wasn’t very good and it was another case of someone thinking that their stupid web page was going to be a great newspaper. On the other hand, I had become decent at PHP. Which was really the point of all of this.

fuzzylemon.net 01-1-2006

The last fuzzy to live. I quickly got sick of the maintenance. My PHP code was pretty bad. Lots of if/else statements, bad switch blocks. It wasn’t very much fun to come home to.

I canceled the auto-renew of the domain and put up a closing page.

Before then, I had changed most of the pages and did a major overhaul to black and a single column layout. I did many different versions of the menu bar and had a great time coming up with a nice and easy way to do image maps or a series of custom buttons. I have the same problem with the current layout of hexameter. It’s sometimes hard to get the images seamed together nicely.

I had included a block of JSP code as an acronym game. It was fun for a while. Forum link there too. Before the forums got hacked and I realized no one was using it. Novelty is a bitch.

End of fuzzy. Domain expires this year.

ubernub.com 10-26-2004

Then I moved to a new domain name.

I was sick of people typing in fuzzylemon.com and I realized people don’t remember .net names. Despite the DNS arguement and the various extensions out there, people just want .com. It’s completely arbitrary. I searched around for real dictionary words left and hexameter (6 meter poetry line) was available. It’s mostly meaningless.

I tried writing plain old html again but it was the same old problem. I scrapped that and went with textpattern, a blog app.

It was decent. It had textile markup that was handy and it had a mostly clumsy way to upload images. Pictures really made posts better. Text is dull. I bet you didn’t even read that last sentence. *g*

ubernub.com 01-10-2006

A year or less passed and I ran into wordpress somehow. I installed it as a test and liked the admin interface much better. I painfully converted all the old textpattern posts into wordpress posts, migrated the images over and was from then on running WordPress.

Over the last few years I customized the crap out of WordPress. I chopped up a theme called MinimaPlus, I wrote an AOL IM text block plugin for wordpress for posting funny/interesting IMs into posts and I put together other tweaks. I use a plugin called photopress for the image handling. I recently upgraded photopress and like the old version better. Photopress scales images down to a specified size (500px wide) so they fit nicely in a column and don’t spill all over the place. The image uploading setup is my favorite so far, being quick and easy and turning out the way you’d expect in a WYSIWYG editor.

I recently tried typo and wordpress 2.0 but neither are quite polished enough yet.

squarism.com 05-27-2004

At the same time, fuzzy and hexy were hosting fairly offensive content. If not crippling, destructive, world-endingly offensive content. If not “omg they must be all something, but sadly no we aren’t” content. If not, “we, as the New Justice Team must destroy these people” content. :\

So I made a more professionally friendly site where I would post boring work crap and put the domain name and email address on a resume or business card. Squarism was born because I am square.

Lots of hits of error messages, hope it’s helping out there. I went with Movable Type and upgraded frequently. MT does the job and it’s fine. But I recently moved to typo because I’m interested in Ruby and Rails.

Typo is ok but it’s not image-friendly enough for me to use it here. I almost always want lots of images and happy pictures. You never know when you’ll need to attach a picture of a Horf de Dorf 9000 Model A. Without a picture of a Horf de Dorf, the post would be meaningless.

*crickets*

squarism.com 01-11-2006

Squarism running on Rails. Good image support, I like the double column newspaper layout. I don’t post much.

Maybe I’m getting sick of being productive. I dunno.

The real reason I don’t have much new content there is I usually put programming stuff up there as a learning tool or later reference. However, lately I’ve been doing most of that full-time so I don’t want to come home to it. I’m sure more stuff will go up there as I miss being a Unix SA or something. Or maybe when I’m out of a job and need to polish up my resume or something. Heh. … *pray*

In the meantime, people seem to be hitting it up for error message help and crap like that.

indieguitarist.com 01-30-2005

Website for friend. Nice site, shame it’s expired.

Was running movable type. Had some good content. I used to subscribe to the RSS feed. Was updated regularly. Maybe it will make a comeback?! Probably not, there were a lot of sister sites (the404.com and tl.fuzzylemon.net) that just got dropped as the owner got more and more busy. Hopefully one day it’ll be a studio homepage.

One day … *looks out at horizon* one day …

:P