Louis' Ramblings

Just when you least expected it

I just happened upon a local vendor selling a Virtual On: Operation Moongate twin system for $995. I just need to figure out where I put such a beast

I just switched over to my new weblog backend

There are still a bunch of issues. Upstreaming is a two step process, I don't have a good frontend for editting things yet, and I am using a shim to keep the messages working, but its progress.

I have been playing the new Spaceward Ho! 5 beta. I used to that game, so now that brand new carbon version is out I am thrilled. It does not seem to have many game play changes since 4, but its also been a while since I played so it possible I have forgotten. I can't wait to try network play. In similiar vain I am also really looking forward to Master of Orion III

This is going to my

This is going to my blog backend, which is of course not currently world viewable. Now I just need to work details. I love rsync.

From beneath you it devours.

From beneath you it devours.

Those were some good fries.

Those were some good fries.

I have rearranged my blogroll,

I have rearranged my blogroll, keep an eye on my now free right column. Man I am yearning McDonalds french fries...

In the early 90s...

I used to be into the Macintosh BBS scene in the 215 and 610 area codes. I went by the handle Boardblaster. In a fit of nostalgia I did a google search for Boardblaster. Didn't find any references to me (not surprising, few of those boards were on Fidonet, so there was not likely to be anything that was bridged onto the net), but http://www.boardblaster.com/ is aparantly a site that sells automatic advertising to "escorts." I don't know whether I should be offended, or just amused ;-)

Refactoring, oh me oh my

I have decided that merging publishing and browsing is a mistake. Radio does it, but quite frankly I think that standalone apps like NetNewsWire Lite, Sherlock, and Watson do far better jobs of publishing specific webservices than a browser does. So I am ripping out the aggregator, and refactoring my rendering backend significantly. It took me a long time to figure out how I wanted to proceed, but now I think I know.

I think the first set of changes to work through is I want to refactor my entire site into pure XHTML/CSS, and get rid of all the formatting tables. After that I am going to write a small Cocoa frontend for managing stories, which will exec the renderer via a commandline interface inorder to render a local cached copy of the page. Finally I think I am ditching the xmlStorageSystem upstreamer. xmlStorageSystem has efficiency issues, and its authentication is broken. My new upstreaming will be based on rsync, but I have not yet decided whether I will use a rsync server, or rsync between a local cache and a mounted webdav volume.

I broke Mac OS X

I broke Mac OS X