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whoa whoa whoa -- pyblosxom now an motd option?

I admit it; my attention flits as lightly as a butterfly from flower to flower. Bloxsom classic (the Perl entity) continues to fascinate, every time I peruse the script. Actually, it was only after installing it as an MOTD weblog that I decided to dip a toe into the wonderful depths of Perl -- now, I can understand perhaps half of what happens when it's browsed. Still have only the tiniest of clues about "flavours", though: but that's fine. It was a major breakthrough for me to begin to understand the intricacies of Perl 'sort'. Love that stuff.

However, the only thing keeping me from immediately adding a third blog is the fact that I only just discovered xfig. I'm not even going to look at pyblosxom's features until I learn a little more about how to interact with the database behind "001.000.000.000".

Oh, who am I kidding. Probably I'll have one set up within the hour. Or not! So, it's good to have a plan.

base 13--right

So, it occurred to me that it would be really neat to date my bloxsom blog entries according to an imaginary calender system. In order to accomplish this, my perling skills would need to be equal to successfully creating a plug-in for blosxom. At my present rate of becoming acquainted with perl, this should be the case around the year 28250 I.E. ("imaginary era").

In the meantime, though, I did evolve a method to convert an ordinary date to an imaginary one. It had to be done. It just had to.

To transform an ordinary date to an imaginary one, perform the following operations. -Convert to yyyymmdd format. -Convert mm to base 12. -Add 300 to yyyy. -Append the base-13 mm form to the previous result.

To transform an imaginary date to an ordinary format, do the following. -Consider the right-most character to be a base 13 number (A=10, B=11, and C=12). This is the mm value in a yyyymmdd result. -From the four left-most numbers, subtract 300. -To the previous result, append the mm value.

leave the fun, take the canali

That's it. Merekinia goes to the far future. Why?
Because that's what mutaphors, possibly.

alrighty then

Last night I successfully installed and began thinkering(sic) with a wordpress weblog in addition to this one. It's very interesting in itself, simply as an exercise in problem solving. Its social aspects are interesting, too. I've had a Live Journal account for about a year, and I just don't "get it" in a way. But in another way, I think I do, at least more so than a year ago. Live Journal is huge, and I'm simply lost in it in a certain sense.

The visual and functional presentation of wordpress is maddeningly like LJ's; but the resemblance seems to be more and more on the surface as I'm working with it and thinking about it. (It would be "social networking" that I just "don't really get," actually.)

So, I set yet another provisional title for it: 001.000.000.000. It's probably rather too clever. But it would be understanding or rather having a certain competence with the medial facilities that I desire to focus on. So, there, I suppose next I'll be trying to understand how to set up "commenting" to my liking. As usual, I don't have a clear idea of the nomenclature--jargon?--in that context. User, subscriber, contributor, author, editor, administrator, la la la la la.