I shall be remaking my first NES PC port this evening- the tupperware thing just makes me ashamed in comparison to carrie's pretty sweet looking dedicated controller. So, I'm gonna get an enclosure and do it up all good. I've found that keyboards have really nice, flexible wire, with 4 internal wires - which is one more than I need for NES controllage. I've also found I have a tendency to pour sugarwater in keyboards accidentally, and keep them after the fact because I'm somehow convinced it might be useful.

In this case, however, BURN ON YOU NON PACKRATS. Because it was useful. I now have sweet, professional looking wire to run from the project enclosure to the parallel port. My NES port will look nice and clean and I will use it to play Metroid on the laptop upstairs. So screw all you.

It will look cool. And it will be secure and function even when I accidentally kick it under my desk, which is more than I can say for its current state. Dangling, barely attached wires do not for stability make.

I'm also breaking the fourth wall, and making available to the elite blog-viewing public the shiny development index. Sometimes it's broken, and it's there for me to screw around while not breaking the main page. Hard Hats required in this area, etc. You can check it out from time to time and see what i'm cookin up as far as potential changes for the main page. I always test the dev page for a while, and tweak it a bunch, before I copy it over and update the main index. Right now, the dev page has some CSS table effects i'm playing with, and a first stab at a collection of front page links. These will eventually make their way to the main page, once I'm happy with the way they look and function. Prior dev-index innovations are the syndication links, the category logos, and the AIM comment link thingy.

It occurs to me that I really need to establish a "blog stuff" category, because often times I have entries in the blog that are simply about the development of the blog. But then I'd have to come up with another category logo, and I'm still not happy with the links one. Plus, i'm pretty much out of good primary colors. Yellow is double plus lame.

[codename: blogging out]