Okay - I think that’s enough work to call the blog open for business.

Which means Wordpress 2.1.2 with Gallery 2.x embedded via WPG2. All hosted on godaddy.com for a crazy small amount of $$. The worst part was figuring out how to bulk upload these php apps (a billion loose files) via ftp in less than 5 hours.

And yes, it’s the LAMP stack. Godaddy gives you mysql and php with the lynux package. So since I’d decided to run Wordpress I figured why fight it.

This is the K2 theme that has been optimized for WPG2, and I forget the name of the Gallery theme but it was one of the few that embedded with very clean lines. Also added sidebar widgets with twitter and delicious integration. The K2 theme includes some Ajax, but a known bug is stopping it at the moment from working seamlessly. I think it was built on Safari, because that’s where it works the best.

Yes the theme is visually very spartan. After the nuts and bolts are in place I’ll try to give it the Pretty.