Switched this over to WordPress 1.5. There’s an old joke about a programmer that decides to write a book, so he goes through and buys a printing press, selects the typeface, buys a binding machine, searches the world over for just the right paper with just the right color, and after getting all of that [...]

Really, this whole tweaking-Blosxom thing is one enormous timesuck, a gaping black hole just devouring hours with nary a burp. Nonetheless: Modified the “find” plugin to show relevant context (i.e., not the entire story) and highlight the matching search terms Wrote sideblog to automatically parse the “links” directory and show them in the sidebar Modified [...]

So, for the past week I’ve been twiddling with my Blosxom configuration; not writing actual content, you understand, because content is really secondary: it’s all the CSS sheets and getting just the right functionality and layout and picking out aesthetically pleasing colors. Content? For the wimps and poseurs. I think that a blog is like [...]

Set up this blog once again, using Blosxom this time. Previously it was MoveableType, which was powerful but also seemed baroque… not to mention that I kept forgetting my administrative password and could never figure out how to get it back again. Frustrating, the second time. Although, to be fair, anything would seem baroque compared [...]