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Arrrr, yeah, I seriously thought I wouldn't get this finished this soon, but I did, and my body and mind are paying for it now. It's the new Tower RP Forums!

Please sign up if you're interested in Tower RP and/or FFRPG. I need to approve all registrations, but I'll be checking on the site as soon as I'm awake and able to think with more than like... four brain cells. :P

These were probably the most harrowing two or three days I've ever had of CSS HORROR. GOD. WHY DOES IT SUCK. It isn't even real programming, honestly, it rarely EVER makes logical sense. I had to seriously hack the heck out of my CSS stylesheet (which is a heavily modded Vanilla forum layout) to make it not look like crap on IE. Like, font-size:1px, and min-height:100% and and wrapper divs to trigger hasLayout! Or whatever that was... I don't even know if I REMEMBER all the hacks I had to do.

Sanity low, hopelessness high...

I am going to take the next week to try and figure out my fate. Basically going to try and start the college app process despite the massive setbacks I'm still facing (no working phone number, no bank account, no health card and etc.) so I can at least have something I can feel is progression in life.

I may also be
- working on dice roller; with some suggestions from Kraken I am taking a slightly different and hopefully easier approach. But it also requires some AJAX... ewww. (And why does the name 'AJAX' even exist? I mean, AJAX = DHTML, pretty much.)
- putting up Paypal donation button. Money is needed. :(
- considering buying webspace based in Canada and actually starting up a low-pay web hosting service.
- playing Atlantica (Aemris @ Macedon server) and RPoL games when taking a break from work/responsibilities.

(Also, this post ended up LONG!)

But I've mostly gotten things set up the way I wanted them, now. Here's some of the annoying things I had to contend with:

1) The user login box had odd formatting for the list bullets. I was actually ranting to Kalli about this for a while. I finally fixed it, by taking out the line-width argument the creator of my base theme (it's called marinelli, by the way) stuck in the loginblock CSS.

2) I made the BAD mistake of trying to activate the theme developer module packaged with devel. I don't know WHAT was wrong with it, but it started eating my PHP memory like crazy whenever I loaded the modules page. Geez... I had bumped up the max allocation in php.ini to 40M and it was still trying to allocate more! And it started spitting bunches of raw code at me, too.