I was initially against using Blosxom to generate static pages as it would have meant duplication of information on my harddrive. Why should I have countless HTML and RSS files in addition to the TXT versions of my weblog entries? I then thought that it would be nice to generate static pages which played nicely … Read more

A new version of Blosxom was released last week and I decided to upgrade. This new version fixes a problem I was having with invalid name attributes for categorised entries and so I am now able to add categories to my weblog. This means … Read more

Without fanfare I upgraded my RSS feed to RSS 2.0 last week. Admittedly my simple feed was already compliant to 2.0, and all I really added was a to each item via the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, which I later removed. I have since downgraded back to RSS 0.91 as … Read more

In case there was any doubt as to my level of geekiness after reading my most recent tirade, Vic wanted me to mention that my background graphic was drawn in XFIG, a vector-based drawing program for systems running X Windows, and … Read more

To further separate content and style in my weblog, I have eliminated the use of the <tt> and <i> HTML elements. Any use of the <tt> element has been replaced with one of <code>, <samp> or <var> when referencing computer code, output or variables, respectively. I am a little fuzzy on where text which delineates … Read more