Stupid Blog Tricks
I’ve decided that my personalization and customization of this blog shall be an incremental, iterative effort. Further to this, my shiny new blog philosophy will have me fill the default layout with goodies before I actually start looking for a design I like.
(er… kind of like the area around my livingroom TV with 3-4 RF/IR bugs, a bunch of devices and a full 16-port Gigabit Ethernet switch that screams networked media. But, I’ll probably find a blog design I like before finding an entertainment center or home theater organizer that works for networked devices.)
So, in moving towards my goal, yesterday I added the Wordpress Sidebar Widgets plugin from Automattic, as it seems to be the defacto doodad display platform.
Then, last night, five minutes before bed, I had an idea to make a widget to include my backyard camera within the sidebar. The camera widget is based on the google search example Automattic includes, and took three of those five minutes to make and add.
I think I am going to enjoy blogging.