categories, referrals and winamp
Make quite a few customizations to the look and feel of the blog. I now have the categories of a post listed under it. Threre is also a list of categories in the menu.
Also added this really nice script to list the recent referrals to the website. Now I would know who all are linking to my blog, and also how well it does on search engines.
I tried various winamp plugins to have a “Now Playing” section on the sidebar. Here is a list of plugins that I tried: DoSomething, AMIP and WhatsPlaying. Also, some nice blog entries that talk about how this should be done are A Whole Lotta Nothing, and VirtualVenus. However, I couldnt get any of the plugins to work properly with Winamp 5. Most importantly, none was able to send a signal when stop was pressed, or winamp was closed. I guess I’ll first finish the linux install on the system, and try to get it working with xmms.
Also changed a couple of things in the stylesheet template, and the master index template. The links on the calendar should now take you to the Daily archive for that day, and not the last post for that day (MT default).
Well, thats it for the time being. Hope I’m able to generate some traffic to this site soon.

December 8th, 2003 at 7:32 am
I was able to get the DoSomething plugin to work, but I use winamp 2.81 as a rule. Not sure if any plugins send stop info via pings as you mentioned. Let me know if your Linux method is successful in showing that winamp is stopped. Would be interested in implementing this.