24 June 2006, 10:53 UTCImproved support for comments
A couple of people actually left comments (woo-hoo!!). This helped me see a number of problems with the comment feature. So I've fixed some things.
- A default title for the comment gets filled in.
- I get mail when people submit comments.
- People can leave an email address and subsequent comments on the same article will get sent to them. Of course they can edit their comment and remove the email address.
I still need to record and display the date/time when the comment was made, and maybe even make an 'atom' feed of comments....
21 May 2005, 22:25 UTCBlog thoughts
No entries for several months... Why? Maybe I just lost the urge.. or maybe there
is something more.
I am a person who is keen on structure. Not everything I do it totally structured, but where structure exists I like to find and make use of it. The thing about a blog is it is largely unstructured. It it just a time-ordered series of thoughts. I think that is great, but I would like there to be extra structure as well.
Sometimes different blog entries at different times are connected by a theme. That connection should be made apparent somehow. But this blog doesn't let me.
So I tried creating sub-blogs (look over on the right hand side) but there didn't really get anywhere.
So where next?
23 March 2004, 09:37 UTCAether now my home page
I've taken the plunge and made aether my home page.
This required a few modifications to aether so that it could appear as though aether controls the whole name space, but so that pre-existing links still work. You can find the patch I used at /~neilb/aether/.patches/, either in the applied directory if it is still applied to my source, or in the included directory if it has been included unstream.
I hope to eventually move all the content which sensibly can be moved into aether across into aether. Until then, my original home page is still available.
21 March 2004, 21:08 UTCAether for blogging
Well, I've been thinking for a while that I should do something more interesting with my home page, and while I was flipping through the latest fresh meat I discovered Aether which claims to be both simple and competent at managing web pages and blogs. So I though I would give it a try.
My Debian notebook already had python installed, so I followed the instructions and it just worked, except that I needed to remove group-write permission before apache would run it setuid as me.
Whether this whole 'blog' idea will actually work for me I have no idea - I have a tendancy to get excited about something for a while and then loose interest. If that happens here, I guess it isn't meant to be.