quizzical.net

For the keyword “quizzical”, my site now comes up fifth in Google (mostly because they finally updated their index a month after it came back on-line). Above me are the definition of quizzical (albeit not a very good one — try m-w), an atrociously-designed Australian blog (but it has me beat in content), an English ISP (gee, I guess WordPress is popular), and a cyber-squatter (not linking to it on a matter of principle. If you’re really that interested, go look it up).

I’m not normally such a parenthesis-whore, it’s just that blogging (still hate that term) seems to bring it out in me.

The work on quizzical.net continues, and I’ve added a basic forum to the site. You can get to it by clicking the “Forums” tag at the top of the screen. There are a number of bugs, but I’ll need to brush up on my PHP before I can fix them. The basic functions all work, though, so you can post and reply and whatnot. Also, it is a little ugly. I’ll get around to messing with the CSS too, but I prefer to work on the broken parts first.

That’ll show you. Seriously, though, I feel a little saner when I’m not screaming at the darkness.

Anyway, if you were here a week ago, you notice that I’ve now added a random quote to the top left of the page, right under the “QUIZZICAL.NET”. And this isn’t some infinite, generic collection, mind you. It is a set of hand-picked quotes (about 100 so far) that resonate with me based on my life’s experience and whatnot. I guess the ultimate goal is that people will gain some sort of indescribable sense of what my brain is.

Other than that, I’ve been making minor tweaks here and there, which you probably wouldn’t notice unless you visit often and pat close attention. Quizzical.net is actually pretty close to the way I want it (save for the lack of visitors), but at some point you can expect some renovation of the sidebar.

Well, it’s been 2 years, one month and a week since I last made any changes to this site (though I’ve been working on it for 2 weeks prior to this post). In that time, quizzical.net has had its domain name subscription lapse, been attacked by Turkish children with scripts, been stroked in a most uncomfortable manner by spam bots, and not been viewed by a single human being (as far as I can tell).

Upon my return to quizzical.net, I decided that PHPBB2 (and forums in general) did not serve my vision of what quizzical.net is to become. I thought about it for a while, and decided that a blog (how I hate that word) was the closest format to what I wanted to do. I may or may not depart from this blog (grr) foundation depending on how much it limits me.

WordPress looked pretty barren when I installed it, so I’ve hand-copied all the posts of substance from the old forum-based quizzical.net. Enjoy.