I took a few minutes just now and put together a simple RSS feed. Trouble is, it doesn’t validate and I’m not sure why. The RSS validator claims that a “description should not contain relative URL references”, except that I don’t have any. Not a particularly helpful error message, that. I’ll have … Read more

I’ve managed to put an archive listing by adding an “archive” flavour and messing with the Apache rules. Here are the lines I added to my Apache ruleset for the blog directory:

RewriteRule ^archives$ archives/ [R] RewriteRule archives/(.*) blosxom.cgi/$1?flav=archive [L]

For some reason that first rule is not automatically filling in a missing trailing slash, … Read more

After months of procrastination, I have finally brought my weblog back online, although not how I had hoped. My goal to create a weblog which posted to Radio Userland-powered sites bore a resemblance to what I do at work, so I couldn’t muster the motivation. I was probably going about it the wrong … Read more

My trial version of Radio expires in one day, possibly tomorrow. Since the only platforms Radio supports are Windows and MacOS, it is doubtful that I will buy a copy as I use Linux at home. I have been using Radio from work and, while I have been impressed, I don’t think it is worth … Read more

I’ve decided against spicing up the look of my weblog. The more I look at its present design, the more I like it. It’s clean and simple. Any attempts I have made to add graphics have just made my weblog look tacky. As we all know, less is … Read more