What do you know, I still have a blog, despite not posting to it in a little under a year. Since the last post I moved to London, got a job, and became British.
Currently I am living with acehole and fred. fred lives in the living room, but it's OK as he moved in with an xbox, Rock Band, and a sizable amount of alcohols, many of which have already been consumed. He also brought the entire Next Generation with him. Energize!
In a week I am going to go to Ukraine to see the family.
Also I'm just starting the process of getting a new computer.
Now that I remember about this blog again, I plan to post to it more in the coming weeks. Yay.
It has been a long time coming, but I finally got myself yet another blog. My last two blogs got 2 and 1 posts respectively, so I am not holding out too much hope for this one. All things considered, both previous blog attempts were made before the term "blog" was coined, so this might just work out after all. Since I don't really read other people's blogs I have very little idea as to what sort of thing to put here... Help?
I heard blogging about blogs is something people who have blogs do, so here we go! A little about this blog... For reasons outside my control there is no mod_php or MySQL on this web server at the moment, which restricts my choice of blogging engines. I went as far as wikipedia's list of blogging software to search for something that did not rely on PHP or MySQL to function. There I found a link to something called pyblosxom, which uses python run as a cgi script and flat-files to work. Yay! Its approach seems very minimalistic, and even things like comments and everything in that menu on the left are separate modules, downloaded and installed on their own.
The default look of the blog was erm... the word "dire" describes it pretty well. However it uses a flexible system of templates, and before long I had a clean and simple interface up and running. I linked it to some friends on my IM contact list, and got plenty of useful feedback, mostly along the lines of "WTF is a tag cloud?" and "It looks very plain... like something made back in 2000.". With that in mind I made a few changes to the CSS sheet, and behold, here is my Web 2.0 styled blog, complete with unsupported CSS3 extensions, menu transparency, and all that.
I will probably play with the layout and some other plugins over time.