which I have lovingly dubbed “Monkey Album”, is a custom creation. It is written using PHP and MySQL and is, to some extent, modeled after a third-party album package I used to employ
I like the photo gallery, but the "custom creation" is what caught my eye. That may be some fun right there. Homeboy also exposes his desktop system and place of employment.
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