Andy Wood

This is cool.

While I was gaming and working on the blog. I kept feeding the DVD player the discs from season four of SG-1. I am actually shocked that I didn’t try watching this when it first started up. Season four went fast with a lot of action, space battles, time travel, really cool stuff.

Having saved the world from thousands of replicating metal bugs at the end of Season Three, the fourth season of Stargate SG-1 kicked off with Col. Jack O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) and the SG-1 team discovering that one Replicator bug escaped destruction when Thor’s ship crashed into the ocean — and it’s found its way onto a Russian submarine where it’s killed the crew and got busy doing that replicator thing that it does.

Each season of Stargate Sg-1 ends with a thrilling cliffhanger, and Season Four was no exception — in “Exodus,” the SG-1 crew travels to the Tok’ra home world and turns the table on a Goa’uld turn coat, and ends the episode on board a crippled ship far from their own galaxy, with Apophis (whom will just not die) close on thier heels.

I have spent the last couple of days molding this soapbox to the look and feel that I wanted. Thanks to my friend Michael whom helped me with the move. I was able to start focusing on other parts of the site.

One of the hurdles was getting the right side column to display everything that I wanted. I was using a great plug for Wordpress called “Sidebar Widgets” from Automattic, Inc. that was allowing me to very easily configure and move the code around in modules, but when I got to the Netflix plugin by Albert Banks it was like beating my head on a wall because it just would not work within the widget.

I basically went back to a stock sidebar.php and added it all in manually. So, if you take a look at it, you will see from the top are some ’site’ specific items which include “home“, “e-Mail“, “blog stats” and “rss“. ( I borrowed the idea from Chris and the images from the Qwilm! Theme)

I then had to display my Xbox Live Game Card and my Battlefield 2 stats via a plugin.

Items that a blog should also display are some pictures and I chose to display my free Flickr images along with the standard blog stuff like Categories and the Archives. On to displaying the movies that I am currently watching from Netflix and lastly you can now read my blog in 8 different languages because of the Automatic Machine Translation plugin too.

I just saw this out there on the Internet thing and just couldn’t pass it up.

I am sure that there are plenty of teams out there that don’t really follow this process. I Hope..