Thank You

Sale of HappySoda v1 has ended. Twenty-five people bought a copy through Lulu.com. Thank you! I seriously appreciate it, particularly since with shipping it came out to be, well, a decent amount of money to part with.

Instead of Packing

Instead of packing for Otakon and getting a good night sleep so that I don’t crash too early, I decided to install a new theme for HappySoda. Of course, it’s never a one button press operation. It’s 2AM. I started at 10pm. Still not done, the links and archive pages need some code to work how they did on my previous theme, so for now those are down. Search page is a mess too.

One of the widgets I wanted to install in the previous theme, but didn’t have the room since there wasn’t a footer, was Community Cloud. Basically, if you comment here the plug-in puts your online name and site for people to click. It’s sorted to appear randomly. Even if it winds up being useless, it at least does provide some linkage until I get the blogroll page straightened out. Check it out in the footer.

I swear blog maintenance itself is an obsession sometimes. I meant to shoot Ringo before leaving. Oh well.

Anyway, I’m probably going to skip taking a lot of pictures or doing any reporting down at Otakon, even if I am setup with Twitter. There’s so many people doing reportage that it doesn’t feel special to do it, so I’ll spare myself the hassle. Instead, I’ll see how fast I can spend the bag of loose change I cashed in for $213.52 this morning. Something tells me I need a Lucky Star coaster set.

Other Places with HappySoda

I kept meaning to post this image I got from Jeane Carla. She took one of the shots from the Nadie shoot and made this. Thanks for using one of my pictures. It’s a lot of fun for me to see things like this…sorry it took me so long to post it.

MAX Magazine

MAX Magazine from Mexico continues to put one of the figures I reviewed in their magazine. Here are some of past and upcoming images of the pages.

HappySoda’s New Shirt

I remember why I don’t change themes that often, but sometimes you just need a new song. It’s a pain, especially when going to a theme that’s a bit more minimal in its design purpose than the previous one. I miss the big footer of the previous theme. I also miss the extensive refinement of it. On the other hand, I just found this new one so pretty that I felt like a change. The smart thing would have been to just leave the cosmetics of the blog alone and do other stuff, like sleep, or talk to real people.

There’s still a list of stuff I have to do to get this new theme up to what I want, such as what to do with the Tag Cloud, put it on a separate page, stick in the archive, or sidebar it? Hell, the default Tag Cloud widget doesn’t show up right. I want to try and figure it out, even if that’s not the way I’m going to go.

Added Easy Gravatars

Temporarily switching from the Comvatar comment icon to Gravatar via the Easy Gravatar 1.1 plugin. One nice thing about Gravatar is you can keep your icon across any blog that is Gravatar enabled. The downside is few people have one registered (register one!). I’ll see how it goes for a couple of weeks before deciding which comment avatar system to use.