Oddly, up until recently a few aspects of my pages were still static in nature. One of them is the little ‘music display’ at the root of the front page. Every time I changed songs, or it detected such, it’d recreate the whole little infopage for every song in the track listing.

I’ve finally added a table to the db to keep the cruft in it’s own locale, and now via a challenge/password interface via SSL, the ever-so-useful information of my playlist is seemlessly appended into this DB.

Of course, it’s a hack. I’ve thrown together a few things for when I use the PC, but I haven’t tested them yet. Right now I have an AppleScript based client which queries for iTunes when it becomes active, and upon an actual change of state (isPlaying && (curTitle != lastTitle)), will trigger off this geeky Rube Goldberg device.

Gallery has reached 1.4. Well, 1.4-pl1. As such, I’ve resync’d my tree, and updated the local galleries.

I’ve finally unified the time and date functionalities in my rather hacked up version of “the script formerly known as QuickBlog” here; it uses it’s own proprietary date format, and I’ve been slowly converting it’s internals to use standard UNIX timestamps. This makes things easier to deal with; MySQL is happy, my client utilities are happy: This makes me happy. Since my own locale is quite different than this host (PST vs KHT), it’s quite a bit easier to deal with the date skew.

I’ve rewritten the ‘search’ and archive functions for my integrated system site management system (the ‘archive’ links), it now sorts properly (I feel), by descending order of entry. The returned information is also quite a bit more comprehensible, I feel – yet brief. Searching within the content is supported, but I have yet to find a reason to add direct ‘search’ functionale – I feel that would add clutter at this point. I’ve even updated a couple of local ports; all in all it’s been a busy day. YAY!