Hi all!

[annathepiper]

It’s been a while since I bothered to update annathepiper.org, my original personal webpage. But as y’all who’ve been following my LJ know, I’ve recently learned how to use Wordpress, and so I thought I’d give my original page a general overhaul too.

The vast majority of my active web attention these days has gone to my LJ as well as my new writing site. But for the sake of posterity I’m keeping annathepiper.org up too. It mostly serves as an archive for my history of MUSHing and some of my other favorite fannish things. (If the words “Great Big Sea” come to mind for you when I say that, they would be appropriate.)

I’ll be experimenting with trying to roll the pages from the last version of this site into Wordpress, though getting the logs database accessible from here promises to be fun. And by fun I mean, “difficult to code”. But it’ll be an interesting learning experience to see if I can take the PHP I originally wrote to search my logs database and integrate it as some sort of Wordpress plugin thingie. (Which I doubt will be interesting to anybody but me, since I figure there are maybe about three people on the planet who may actually still be interested in reading my logs, but hey! Who knows?)

Anyway, if you’re reading this mirrored off my LJ or one of my LJ-clone accounts, feel free to wander by annathepiper.org occasionally. But mind the dust. I’m cleaning up!

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

Comments

[astraether.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks keeping old logs online might be of some interest to anyone but myself. I wish I knew how to code a search-engine, though! That's pretty bad-ass. Good luck with it!

[annathepiper]

Why thank you! Want the details on what I did? Don't know how comfy you are with either PHP or MySQL...

[astraether.livejournal.com]

Mmm, pretty clueless on both, I'm afraid. I'll just have to look & marvel whenever you're done. :)

[annathepiper]

No worries!

And now I've got the logs available again, integrated into Wordpress!

[astraether.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, logs. I just frittered away my morning skimming over yours. Thanks a lot! But seriously, it's a fun trek down memory lane. I'm amazed how much I've forgotten -- old character-names bring back twinges of memory, and I'm sure that many of their players were somehow significant in one way or another. Wish I could recall it all better. But thanks for giving me that glimpse into the past. I've bookmarked your page for future reminiscences!

[annathepiper]

You're very welcome. :) This is exactly why I like to keep these logs around--for occasional nostalgic wanderings like that!

[annathepiper]

The one I'm using is called JournalPress--and I chose it specifically because it can crosspost to multiple LJ-type sites at once, which made it more appealing to me than LJXP. Since I've got accounts here, on JournalFen, on InsaneJournal, and on Dreamwidth, one that could talk to all of them seemed called for. :)

Do you want to see the code for my footer anyway?

[annathepiper]

You're welcome!

And yeah, the crossposter on DW is pretty nifty, but it's only helpful if you want to use DW as your primary posting location. If you're just going to post from Wordpress anyway, JournalPress rocks.