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Mon, 24 Nov 2003
This is Blosxom
I moved my blog to a new engine, Blosxom. As much as I loved all the XML of my engine, it got quite out of hand dealing with a single large unicode XML document. Editing it in Emacs would periodically cause Emacs to not want to save it at all. I figured I'd have better success finding someone who has already done most of the dirty work for me, so I don't have to re-invent the blog-shaped wheel.
Blosxom is nice as it's very simple: each .txt file is a blog post; the first line is the title, the rest is the body. Categories are created by making sub directories (the one downside to this is that something can't be in multiple categories easily).
It'll take a bit to make everything work smoothly. I've so far put all the posts into categories (check out /blog/tech/bots/ for example) and set up the comment system. I've yet to move old comments to the new engine, but will as soon as I write a conversion program.
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Sorry about that. It's due to a variety of reasons, mainly being: 1) Blosxom uses an old version of RSS, 2) I told Blosxom to display the last 15 entries. That means the last 15 entries go on the RSS feed too.
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for whatever reason, your web page is now 95 miles wide on our comp. what happened? please call me. asap. thanks.
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It's been fixed. That's what I get for not bothering to make sure the code is valid. Let me guess, you're using IE 6?
Re: This is Blosxom
It would have been nice if you had made a postin the previous system about the RSS feed URL changing. I didn't get updates for a bit until I happened to look at your page directly today and noted posts which I hadn't seen. I am now recovered, though.
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entirely forgot about that. I was going to, but lost it in a screen session somewhere. Done now.
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Re: This is Blosxom
The comments work!