The World of Curtis Gibby – My Blog

Since I built this web site, I’ve taken it as a source of pride that I created all of the major functionality from scratch: blog, pictures, links, and so forth.  I learned that I could do it on my own. But since I’ve started using WordPress in other applications, I knew that I wanted to […]

Since I’m trying to become a better programmer, I’m updating my web site for a better user experience.   I originally built the pictures and recipes pages with SQL-based sorts, so that the user would click on a link that would reload the page with results sorted by the relevant column. Since going to work […]

I added a new feature to my picture pages last night — a listing of related photos.   Now when you click on the photo of me with a parrot on my shoulder in Machiques Venezuela, you’ll also see a thumbnail version of me standing on the model of the solar system in the same […]

I’ve taken down the Greasemonkey userscript section of this web site. I found that not even I was using it — uploading the files to userscripts.org was much easier and useful. So now the link above redirects to my list of scripts at userscripts.org.

I’ve added a new feature to the web site: comments. You can now make your voice heard on any of my pictures, blog entries, or recipes by clicking on the “Add a comment” link that the bottom of the page. Let’s hear what you all have to say!

I’ve updated the site to make everything CSS-compliant and pretty. Under the old design, Sarah had told me not to tell people about the site because “it doesn’t look good.” It took a lot of work, but should be worthwhile in that it helped me learn CSS.

I’ve finally gotten everything on my web site working more or less right. The address redirection took a bit of tweaking in the Apache configuration files, but I learned how to do it. Now there’s a couple of things I might do with filtering, and I definitely want to change/update the playlist… and oh yeah, […]

Here it is one hour later, and I’m making another entry!

I felt really sick yesterday, so I called George and asked him to cover for me. But now I feel better, so I’m playing on my web site all day. My wife would be mad at me if she knew I wasn’t in bed sleeping, but I don’t really feel like sleep.