Archives for December 2004
And BTW
Merry Christmas!
We’re alive!
Wow, what a past couple of days it has been. The icy winter storm that coated the east side of Columbus had a death sentence for many of the trees around here. Of course this also means a death sentence for a lot of the over head power lines. I believe it got upwards of 300,000+ without power. Although I can not complain as much as others around here; our power was restored in around 24 hours.
Let me tell you, it gets very cold with out any heat. Because I am a lucky homeowner with a finished basement, I hung out at the house to man the generator which was running our sump pump. Renee and the kids stayed in a hotel.
Updated theme
I switched themes yet again; but this time is different. Using the excellent, and semi-legendary Kubrick theme which has been ported to Drupal. Woot! Made a couple of tweaks so far.
I was wanting to change to a fixed width design, but you know me and time. This will make for an excellent base, which I can expand upon. 
Gentoo’s Guide XML in Drupal
I’d like to see the ability to use Gentoo’s Guide XML documentation standard in Drupal. For what I’d like to do with the site, this would really kick ass. While Drupal’s article module is nice for presenting guides on the web, the data is pretty much stuck in that format. Using XML to markup the data would allow tons of flexibility in how it can be rendered.
I’ve been trying to figure out how this could be implemented. I think it would be best as a module. As I see it, it would probably be either a new node, or a some kind of input filter. Maybe both. Unfortunately, I’m not too knowledgeable on XML or creating modules for Drupal. Either of them can not be that hard to learn though.
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…
Just in time to put you in that Christmas mood: Genitals caught fire doing surgery. Ouch! Would suck to be him…