There are many ways of going about doing the random image selection.  I am retrieving an image based on the images stored in a particular directory.  I used this regex:

if ( preg_match("/(\.gif|\.jpg|\.png)$/", $img_file) ) {
$images[] = $img_file;
}

to retrieve my images, and

$image = file_get_contents($root . $path . “/” . $img);

to retrieve the actual image.  Now WP Super Cache can still serve up a cached page with http://nathanielengelsen.com/headerimage.php always set as the default header image, but headerimage.php can serve up a random dynamic image with every call.

Washington, D.C., I’ll see you Sunday night.  Everybody else, see you when I get back.  Hopefully I’ll have more to post about the rewrite of the distributed PC management application I’m writing using WCF.

The contact form is great — a standard WordPress plugin, but I’m very impressed. I’ve always admired alternate captchas and the simple math option is right up my alley.

Finally, working through my resume, getting it to be XHTML Strict, lead me to my videos pages. Not a big user of embedded Youtube videos, I hadn’t realized that they weren’t compliant. Thanks go to those who’ve done this in the past, because it was very simple to accomplish.

Hence, a new vanity website.  Not a tumblr or livejournal by any means, I plan on using this website to document my code and projects, and to provide them to the world.