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I make characters like Ziziri: a cannibalistic Full Moon Lunar with a hyena totem, my entry for a barbarian game I may or may not get accepted for. She's even more of a violent catharsis than Huntress, who turned out to be fairly well-spoken and subtle (well, she IS a Day Caste), while Zizi truly relishes and *thirsts* for killing. I'm amused this Lunar could end up more evil than any of my Abyssals. :P

Nekira, if you're reading this, I'm really sorry x.x but I need more time alone. :( Forum games are just less... 'direct' communication for me, so I feel safer with them in my current state of mind. Next week, though, I'll definitely contact you. With many, many apologies.

Speaking of forums... I'm still open for more character applications for Outcastes on the Open Sea. More high quality RTJs would make me happy. For those of you new to RPoL, don't shy from commenting on this entry (well, could email too but I'm not really checking my email lately *sigh*) or clicking the "Request Access" link on the game page and sending me a PM that way.

So I've continued working on my bbpress stuff.

Found out about WURFL and specifically Tera-WURFL which is basically a centralized database of all mobile phones and browsers. I'm using it to determine whether the browser viewing my bbpress forum is on a mobile phone or not. It works like a charm, so I'm happy about that!

I also found a mobile friendly layout... I'll link it later, it's the "1col_fixed" layout out of a series of basic themes made to be bases for bbpress themes.

...well, to be honest it's something I've wanted to actually redo for a while. The Caduceus site, I mean.

Here's the main page that I've already shown before, and the actual journal part. The purpose of the journal will be for Jon and I to write in-character things about Ryshy and Alexsei, to help us flesh out how we'll separate them from Exalted's Creation and into Eskarne (my original setting for the Anthegenia Cycle, and yes, also the name I gave the Great Bird in Reborn Again. It means "Mercy".)

For the user profiles, I ended up using a nifty Nucleus plugin for customizable profiles. Even if there'll only ever be two users for the Caduceus, I just had to get it done *right*. ^^;

I went through a few different and interesting blog software and CMSs before settling back with Nucleus, one of my staple favorites:

So Eni wants a page for the Redrum Collective (the unofficial name for our PSU "guild"). And she wants both a wiki and a forum. Fine, yeah, I'll just install a wiki, and a forum... except wait! I need to find a way to integrate the authentication of the two so people only need one login! I guess I don't NEED to, but I want to.

Which led me to researching various solutions for the single sign-on problem. Eventually -- after much frustration looking for suitable CMSs with both wiki and forum, wikis with forum plugins and so on -- it led me to CAS or Central Authentication System. Basically, you run a server (written in Java in this case, the code is taken from some project originally from Yale apparently) that serves as a bridge between the login authentication of different web apps, creating a single point of authentication for all.