Finally got around to doing some updating — I had about a million and a half rp icons sitting around rotting on the hard drive, and decided it was about time to update shounen-terrorist.net. So that’s taken care of!

I’ve recently switched computers; gone is the trusty Vaio, replaced by an eMachine (DON’T JUDGE ME) that I promptly upgraded the crap out of. Hueg power supply, gratuitous amounts of memory, an extra hard drive, a much-upgraded graphics card … dude, I’ve wanted to work on desktops forever, and it’s every bit as much fun (and frustration) as I’d imagined.

Oh god, I am a massive nerd. D:

Likewise with the upgrades, my copy of Windows 7 came in. It’s a little different, but I’m really loving it … except for the part where I have to restart my network card every time I restart my computer before I can connect to the internet, sob. There’s always something, right? Right.

In other words: I cannot wait for Christmas to be over. Retail during the holidays is hell on earth, no lie.

This was, quite possibly, the most frustrating project I’ve decided on in a while.   WordPress has a ridiculously complicated css file, that had me totally confused for most of the design, and I dunno … green’s not exactly my color.   Whatever.   Anyway.

As for big updates around the network, not a whole lot happening beyond the struggles with a few different content management systems.   I moved my fiction from this domain to its new domain, which is probably a little silly considering that I don’t really do a whole lot of it, and installed eFiction over there.   Check it out at karaoke-soul.net.   Feel free to leave some reviews or challenges; that’s most of why I ended up using the script in the first place.   Currently, I’m working on a few different fiction projects, all of which are interesting but rather mentally consuming, and at least two of them are really making me feel the sting of not being as great at my favorite hobby as I wished I was.   We’ll see how things turn out, though, oh yes.

Mister World should be getting something of an update, soon — I’m currently wrangling with a layout database script that refuses to cooperate, and it seems to have been discontinued, so I’m eyeing some alternatives.   Technology is so full of headaches for me, hee.

Anyway, I figured that since EA was up for a new layout anyway, that I’d get another chance to work on it. EA is actually a little bit easier to manage, since I don’t have any other scripts to mess with, and it’s really little more than a gateway to the rest of the network, so it wouldn’t get overwhelming. So. Yes, as of now, EA is wordpress-powered, and it should be quite the learning experience if anything.

And because I could, I added a plug-in for avatars. I like little pictures. :3