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Thanks to Mandy who pointed out some terrible rendering problems with the IE engine. The theme I’m using didn’t like adding a text widget to the sidebar, it closed the <div> tag too early, and was throwing the content div completely out. Some hacking later, I pinned the problem down to the functions.php file in the theme, I had to fix the tags in there, and voila, according to me it works! So if anybody’s still experiencing horrible rendering issues with the new theme, please feel free to leave a comment!

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Alrighty, I’ve finally gone and updated the theme for my blog. I had to go in and hack a bit at the theme I chose to use, put I think the result looks good enough. I’ll probably spend a bit more time and tweak a few things, but I’m happy with the overall look. Very simple and clean.

I had to hack the gamercard plugin I wrote though, it was causing way to much misalignment issues, all my fault. It’s fixed now, and everything’s good to go!

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A couple of things to mention here I guess. My stitches were removed last week Wednesday. Overall, it seems that my finger healed up quite nicely. I peeled off some of the dead skin that was getting hooked onto stuff, fortunately doing that didn’t cause any further problems. The new skin on my finger is a bit sensitive still, but in time my finger should be back to normal. And hopefully I won’t be going through this whole ordeal again!

On the gaming side of things, I’ve managed to finish Fable II. Just in time for Fallout 3, actually. I’ll post a little review of Fable a bit later.I  also got hold of Far Cry 2 for the PC, I need to play that at some point as well. So, of the games that came out last month, I still want to get Dead Space. Now, November has Gears of War 2, Little Big Planet and Mirrors Edge coming out it quick succession. *sigh*

Oooh, we bought a new dishwasher last week Wednesday. A new Game store opened by us, and they had a special on. Our current dishwasher was really not all that wonderful. Now, when we went to go fetch our dishwasher on Saturday from the depot, I was told that they don’t have stock anymore. This is something that baffles me, since we paid for the thing, they shouldn’t have allocated it to someone else! Still haven’t heard from them yet, will need to sort this out…

Other then that, not really much has been happening. When payday comes I must go and pick up the new Kaiser Chiefs album. And later this month should also see the release of the new Guns & Roses album, after 15 years. Kinda excited about that. Aaaaand there’s a new Killers album also getting released this month. I need more monies! I was just looking on some on some local e-tailer websites, and I see there’s a new Bloc Party out as well!

I recently started using Twitter, you’ll notice a new sidebar on the side with the last five tweets. I’ve also been following the development of the next version of WordPress, they’re going to change the admin console around quite a bit, but it looks really good!

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I spent a bit of time with me blog again. I messed around with the theme templates, modified it a bit to suit my tastes for the main page.

I notice that I’m posting a little bit more regularly at least, I guess that’s something to be proud of. This spurred me to see if there’s a way I can feed my blog entries into my Facebook and Livejournal. So I went trolling for WordPress plugins. There’s a Facebook updating plugin for WordPress, but it’s not particularly up to date, so the new Facebook redesign breaks that one, so I put that on the backburner for now. Next up was Livejournal.  I found a WordPress plugin that allows your updates to get posted onto LJ as well, and it works a treat. So if you’re reading this on my LJ, it means it really is working!

If I don’t get a decent Facebook plugin anytime soon, perhaps I’ll dive in and see about developing one myself. But then I’d have to figure out both Facebook’s API, and delve a bit deeper into WordPress as well. I wrote a plugin for WordPress that pulls my Xbox Live gamercard throughh as a widget, and that wasn’t too hectic, did learn quite a bit about the inner workings of WordPress as such, which has come in handy in doing some cosmetic modifications to the themes and such.

In other news, new Metallica album’s pretty damn good. Harks back to vintage Metallica, and that’s only a good thing in my book.

Our puppy’s growing up fast now, but she has discovered a new favourite past-time: snail hunting. She goes and finds them in the garden, and then brings them into the house to chew on her pillow. Then she leaves the bits all over, and that’s just gross! I guess that’s just one more joy of being a pet-owner.

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