Replacing Sprawl
Planetizen points to
In Fairfax, High-Density Suburban Renewal in the Washington Post. I wish
that would happen around here.
Posted at 17:55
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What's up with Daypop? And that's too bad, because I wanted to so some ego-surfing :)
Does anyone know what's up with daypop? Their
search doesn't return any results, the top forty is messed up, and the top
news stories doesn't exist.
Posted at 17:46
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Blosxom: Saving the World from Yet Another Piece of Weblog Software I first discussed my requirements in a post called
Before I
write my weblog software... on Hack the Planet. They included:
I also wanted nice URLs, templating, searching, and edit this page
functionality. Just as important, though, were the things I didn't want:
comments, users, a database: "Basically, I just want a simple weblog with
solid seperation of the content from the layout that won't lock me in."
Unlike most of the things I write about online, this one was actually
mentioned in a few places.
Blosxom doesn't do all the things I wanted, but it is really simple
weblogging software. With the addition of some auto-formatting hacks, the
blosmail email gateway, and some Apache mod_rewrite rules, it works really
well for me. There's no templating, but the files are just in plain text
format! What else could you need?
There for Blosxom saved the world from yet another half-implemented crappy
piece of weblog software. Hurray!
I've wanted to start a weblog for a while now, mainly to reply to some of
the stuff I see on other weblogs, but I have rather picky requirements. I
don't want to waste a lot of time maintaining my weblog software instead
of writing entries. I don't want to fuck around with a database or
anything like that.
Posted at 17:04
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Text formatting rules Auto paragraphs: just insert a line between paragraphs like you would in an
email.
Bold and Italics: Use email style * and _ symbols
Blockquote: indent your line by two whitespace characters
Numbered list: prefix at least two lines with a "[0-9]+." aka, a number followed by a period.
Bulleted list: prefix at least two lines with an asterix.
Auto links: Include your link in [] with the link first, then a space and
any text you want to use: [url-scheme://link title].
The URL schemes which are supported by this are
HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NNTP, NEWS, TELNET, and FILE. "Bare" links are also supported: http://www.eff.org
You can also include any HTML you want in your post. The system shouldn't screw up your HTML too bad, but see the list of limitations below.
To see what a plain-text Blosxom entry looks like, check out
autoformatting.txt.
Some limitations of the system:
1. I don't have a "preformated" style yet, as you can tell by this entry. You
need this for code examples.
I'm working on fixing these problems.
For reference, here are the text formatting rules that my haxored copy of i
blosxom supports:
Posted at 09:02
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My Blosxom Setup Rael is about to release
a new version of Blosxom which supports a number of new features. I'd be
honored if he would include my own hacks to Blosxom in 0+5i or 0+6i. In that
spirit, here is my version of
blosxom.pl
As you may have noticed from my earlier entries, I am using a hacked version of Blosxom,
Rael Dornfest's lightweight weblogging software which supports Wiki-like
autoformatting of plain text. IMHO, this makes the system much easier to use,
especially from email.
I call the version I'm using 1+4i, since it adds some functionality to the
current 0+4i version not in the original. There are still some kinks to work
out, but I'm using it on a daily basis and finding it useful.
Posted at 08:27
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