Irrsinn.net: taking joy in human unreason

Initial story management plugin done

My initial pass at the story management plugin is in place. It doesn't do the fancy things I want it to do yet, but it can note the root page of a series, output a list of stories in story-date order on that root page, note the arcs, and ...

More on the story engine

I started working up the story engine last night in Ruby. Greg suggested that XSLT would be perfect for it if I stored my stories as XML. Do a simple transformation, and voila, a story in XHTML with layout and everything. I was hoping I could knock ...

New! Improved!

As I mentioned on my much-unused LiveJournal page, I'm going to start crossposting. There are a good number of people that I'm acquainted with that use "LJ Friends" to view blogs; these folks don't use RSS (aside from what I can guess is on the backend of LJ Friends) ...

Downgrade failure.

I don't care much for Wordpress 2.0. It's pretty and sleek, but there's an as-yet-unsolved issue with Wordpress hijacking access attempts to directories that shouldn't be covered by mod_rewrite and have authentication settings on them via .htaccess. Result: lots of 404 errors when attempting to get to my ...

Yay for lunch.

Things are coming together a little better on the redesign. I installed WordPress in such a way as it's managing all my content now, even though I haven't moved all my content into the database yet. I decided to keep the purple. Note that I moved off the posts ...

Quasi-daily linkage

Welcome! - Okay, nevermind on the link below. This intro provides some good insight into the Tiny Living thing, which is more than just 60 sq. ft houses. Not sure that I want to downsize my house in particular, but it's an interesting movement. Tiny House In Asheville - ...

“Ensuring Safety” posted

It's been a couple of weeks since I posted a story. No good excuse other than "what in the hell happened to my life?". "Ensuring Safety" follows the Transhuman Congress story "Expanding Borders". It's probably a good idea to (re)read the first part before jumping into the ...

Quasi-daily linkage

10 Weird Miniature Versions of Normal Animals - Weird Worm - These are quite adorable. Puppy! - Joel on Software - "Although I appreciate that many people find Twitter to be valuable, I find it a truly awful way to exchange thoughts and ideas. It creates a mentally stunted world in ...