Voder-Vocoder

I’m making a few changes to the blog form on this site. The eventual goal is to make a RSS feed. To do that I’ve got to first make some changes in my data structures.

The redesign started with only editing css files, but then I needed to insert some <div>’s, and I needed to edit almost every cgi and html file. I managed to automate the task, though.

Site Update! (I wonder who reads this, anyway?)

I’ve been going back and rewriting the perl backend of this page. You shouldn’t be able to tell a difference, but the code is a lot cleaner now. I’ve moved all of the reusable code into a .pm file so I can now knock out new cgi scripts much more quickly.

Yea! Reusable Code!

There’s now a Blog Submission form, which will only work if you are logged in. And I’m the only one with a login right now. So if I know you, and you are looking for a place to log your thoughts, send me a note.

I got sick of the tiny keyboard on my tiny notebook, so I went shopping for a keybord to throw in my suitcase when I travel. I need a full sized USB keyboard that doesn’t take up more space than it has to. Since I only have one USB port on my notebook, I also need a USB hub. The ideal thing would be a keyboard with a built in hub, like Apple has. So I wandered around CompUSA looking for such a thing. It turns out that half of the PC keyboards out there still have PS/2 connectors. And all of the rest are huge, with 20 unnessisary buttons.

So I ended up buying an Apple Pro Keyboard. It works perffectly. The only thing it lacks is a context-menu button. And the alt and start buttons are reversed. But I can deal with those issues. Apple could make a killing if they would market thier keyboards at PC users.

Yea! Hardware Standards!

Okay, here’s the new page, at the new site, halcanary.org. The page is dynamically created. I wrote a couple of perl scripts that do the job.

There’s still a lot that’s missing. I’ve done the work, I just need to put it in place. Here’s a list:

• Prefs & styles
• The other pages.
• logins for guests
  • a way to post to the blog via cgi
  • allow guests to post to the blog too.
• view old blog entries

Stay tuned!

Good Morning. This is my blog. The idea here is that I’ll post here on a regular basis, and other people are encouraged to do so too.

Here are my plans for this blog:

1. A login system to track users.
2. Skinnable Style Sheets.
3. Integration with the chatting applet
4. Perhapse eventually make my whole site dynamically generated.

Now a link. This is my new desktop background on my work computer.