You know it has been a boring week when your high point was bowling a 150, setting your record for your best score. Like when I set my previous record of 143, this came about game 4 or 5, when I could no longer feel my arm, resulting in a nice easy swing that let me concentrate instead on keeping my lead foot straight. My arm is going to be in so much pain tomorrow, but that's okay because I can say now on this Friday that I accomplished something. Incidentally, also related to the bowling, Jen turned a year older, so here's to 22. We managed to make a band at the Italian restaurant play for her, the bowling alley put on "Celebration" for her, and we made her wear a pink headband that had a crown/cap thing that read "Party Princess". By definition of college students, I'd deem the celebration a success.
I've been trying out a bunch of blogging clients, attempting to harness the power of Movable Type without the hassle of using the web interface. I've tried out two clients so far, and both certainly have features that make them appealing. The two clients I have tried so far are Zempt and W.Bloggar. Of the two, I like Zempt better, if only because it uses the EM and STRONG tags as opposed to the traditional I and B tags of HTML-old. However, W.Bloggar supports more than just Movable Type, which means once I get the XML-RPC interface working for Xoops, I can use that as well. The true test for W.Bloggar though will be if it calls an update for the blog and triggers a rebuild. Additionally, it will be interesting to see if the MT xml interface will do trackback pings. I was pleased to find out Zempt did these things. For the later two, only time will tell.
This weekend is shaping up to be a lot more research on Smarty Templates in PHP so that I can build the html files for Xoops. It turns out Smarty doesn't use the equal sign, but instead uses the eq identifier, something more akin to Visual Basic than it's normal-code counterparts. Thankfully I caught it now before I got too involved with making everything. I also kicked the preliminary version to Thomas Blood, who was my original advisor for the project. It has a long way to go until it is completed, and I am hoping to spend Saturday at least finishing one of the (many) display sections. At least then I will still be on schedule.
In response to "It seems fitting we dress the world in white and grey":
Yeah for being on schedule!!!!