Just playing around with a few toys. One you might want to try out: collapsible blocks.

Clicking on the title of a block, either one of the three across the top of the page, underneath the header, or in the left or right hand columns, will collapse the block down to just its title.

Collapse all three blocks across the top, and the entire region will collapse, bringing the page content up closer to the top. Blocks should remember their states from page to page (although it may take until the entire page loads before the blocks collapse).

In response to a reader request from heuertag I've reworked the sheet music page to work like the forgemap database, the gamertag database, and the movies database. Now you can search and sort the sheet music entries just like you can on those other pages.

Nthro Sraom submitted a nice how-to for finding the Famine Skull in Halo 3. Since Rampancy's collection of skull pages isn't complete, we're asking readers to submit entries on their own favorite skull: how and where to find it, what it does, your preferred method of reaching it, and how it changes your experience of the game. Not just the location; lots of sites have lists of skulls with locations.

Just a reminder-- now that Halo 3 is out, if you've played it, you'll want to edit your spoiler settings so you aren't missing out on posts that include spoilers.

Login, go to My Account, click Roles, then choose one (and only one) item that reflects your preferred default spoiler display for the front page.

Also, if you've played Halo 3, why not submit a user review?

While many Halo fans are trying to keep themselves off the Internet to avoid spoilers, I've had trouble getting on it-- the new DSL line is installed, but not yet working, and the old line decided to go on vacation for the past 24 hours. With that in mind, here's a summary of the news in that time:

The second part of the new spoiler system is now in place; user account level front page preferences.

Click the My account link near the top of your account box in the lower left-hand column. You should see a tab called "roles". Here you'll see a list of all the spoiler settings, just like on the front page: no spoilers, no H3 spoilers, no old spoilers, all spoilers, and only spoilers.

I know the last post was too long, so here's a summary. Bottom line, users can now:

I'm now starting to make some of the functional changes on the site enabled by the last Drupal software upgrade.

The first change is probably the most basic. The old image gallery used to display a listing of all galleries, with a sample image, and an image count, which was very nice. However, when you actually got down to viewing the images, the display wasn't very pretty and couldn't be sorted or searched in any way.

Over the last 24 hours I've updated Rampancy.net from Drupal 4.7 to the latest 5.2. To the best of my knowledge, no features have been lost-- drop me a line if something seems broken.

If you look at the top of the page, you'll see the new spoiler system. For years we've tagged items as "spoilers" on the site, but nothing was ever done with that information. Now, the default front page view will include no spoilers, and you can click on a link to change that setting; you can choose to eliminate Halo 3 spoilers, Halo 1 & 2 spoilers, or to view all spoilers.

Short update to the human equipment and weapons pages in the Halo 3 guide, with information on some of the equipment and weapons on tap in the Public Beta.

Ducain wrote to alert me of an update at Certain Affinity's site, and it's good news all around.

First off, they're passing around the news that Frankie at Bungie.net says the map downloading problems have been fixed.

In 2004, before the release of Halo 2, a website separate from Bungie.net, Halo2.com, went live, with information about the units, vehicles, and weapons in the game, laid out as if from the perspective of a Covenant intelligence agency. Similarly, Halo3.com launched late last month, largely from the perspective of UNSC intelligence-gathering, with information on Halo 3.