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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 ...

Awesome trumpets: no longer an oxymoron

Curt Ramm played with They Might Be Giants in Wednesday and last Friday's shows, and I'll admit, he's given me more than a little crush on the trumpet. I'm sure Greg will be jealous. I can't find much in terms of videos of him except for Bruce Springsteen ...

Quasi-daily linkage

10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit - Nice and easy list to follow. I fixed a silly problem on my site this morning courtesy of the reminder. Clients From Hell : The client calls around 9 PM on a Saturday... - “[very angry] I am reading your email in ...

I’ll be damned – more WP trouble

I was fixing a webcomic issue on Greg's blog, and I'll be damned if from one minute to the next, it didn't suffer from an index.php injection, too. This is weird as hell. A bunch of spurious content appeared on his homepage, although clicking through to those posts ...