Let’s Drink To That

I have been been trying to look up do-it-yourself (DIY) guides to wiring up a telephone plug. I have been reading up on the literature on wikipedia and it sounds simple enough. I hope to be able to pull it off.

You see, the wall socket in the apartment has not been completed and wires are sticking out from the wall. A few weeks back, I bought a wall socket so that I could take care of this fixture, only to find that there were 4 strands of wire sticking out. I’ve read up on the intricacies of wiring a telephone wire and I hope to be able to figure out the tip-and-ring configuration so that I could hopefully get the telephone line to work. LoL.

Wish me luck

Yet again, I changed the theme once more. Hehe.

I remember growing up, whenever someone keeps changing his mind, he is likened to a girl, perhaps attributing that unique trait of always changing his mind to that of a female. Well, I don’t know if there is any  truth to that. Anyway, it is quite nice to break the monotone every once in a while don’t you think?

This theme is called Silver Sleek, another theme I downloaded off of the Wordpress collection of free themes.

Guess what else is new?

Ummm..you might’ve noticed that the blogroll widget on the 2nd sidebar already has a scrollbar..that’s all thanks to Roselle for putting up with my bugging her to teach me how she did it on her page. Haha! Actually, I wasn’t able to do it like the way she described it in the post because when I followed the instructions to the detail, it still didn’t give the results that were shown like that in here site. So I did some experimenting with the theme editor (the sidebar.php) and viola! haha..in Visayan, the term would be “chamba”.

Toink!

This is my first entry for WW, so allow me to to be not so wordless. LOL.

I have just finished tinkering with the sidebars. Actually, I was tinkering with it yesterday, with disastrous results because when I finished with my experimentation, eureka! The sidebars were no longer to be seen..toink..so I had to re upload the theme through CuteFtp to reset it to its original state.

Now the question. Why was I tinkering with it? Simple. I wanted to either (1) add a scrollbar to the blogroll, (2) auto link the blogroll to appear and automatically update in another page, or (3) add a drop down list for the blogroll, all with the ultimate goal of saving some space and avoiding the clutter to the page brought about by having a loooong blogroll list such as the one on DHT. You see, I have been manually writing the blogroll page which is quite tedious and time consuming. So much for working smart.

Regarding item (1), I haven’t found any plugin that addresses this concern, although I have found one site (Reflexes) running on Wordpress that had a scrollbar on the blogroll. On item (2), I found the plugin and installed and activated it, but didn’t get the desired results, meaning, it didn’t show in the other page that I created. I already queried the author regarding its status on Wordpress 2.5.1, thinking this may be the only reason why it didn’t work as I followed their instructions to the dot. On item (3), I found a plugin for it and I was quite successful with making it appear in the sidebar, but encountered the minor problem on the alignment as it spills out of the sidebar (see for yourself LOL). Anyway, I am thinking that perhaps that particular plugin must have been designed for a single sidebar theme (just a hunch), but I have already asked the plugin creator to take a look at it and help me address the problem. It is actually a very cool plugin because it shows your links grouped into whatever categories you have grouped them in. I am just waiting on his reply and I do hope he can help me on this one.

*Fingers crossed*