RasterWeb!

Lots of work has been happening in the Drupal world lately, and the admin section is getting better by the day. Hopefully everyone working on it will keep up the current level of improvements, and we’ll soon have a nice little system to deploy.

I’ve not yet deployed Drupal here because it still doesn’t work the way I do. I think if you’re considering a new publishing system to replace your current system you’ll find two things:

1. Systems that conform to the way you work
2. Systems that force you to conform to the way they work

Right now Movable Type is the first one, while Drupal is the second one. In my mind all systems should probably be able to conform to the way you work, while being able to suggest that the way they work might be a better alternative. (This reminds me of the Mac OS X dock controversy.) Drupal’s taxonomy is probably a lot more powerful than Movable Type’s category system right now, of course things change quickly on the internet…

About a month or so ago I shot an email to Mark Pilgrim about using the <cite> tag, and if I was using it right, and lo and behold that tag is back in a big way. My question was about what tag I should use when mentioning a book or movie title, but I guess a person is another valid thingy to cite. I also need to start using the cite attribute in my blockquotes…

Well, I’m enjoying the time off. I didn’t quite get done everything I wanted to get done, but I’ve still got a few days.

Ahhh, the holidays are here! Jeremy says:

And I just know I’m gonna waste time screwing with Windows.

I hear ya, Jeremy. as I’m sure you know, you are a computer guy, and not only that, you are a smart computer guy, so it’s not surprising that people would expect you to know how to fix a computer.

I help my Dad with Windows issues as well, and I’ve never purchased a Windows PC in my life. I’ve used Windows, but only when forced too, not by my own choice, but when we get down to it, I know enough about computers to poke around Windows and attempt to figure things out. Well, at a high level anyway, I won’t be messing with the registry or anything…

Oh, and before you all head off to the relative’s for the holidays, burn a few CD‘s containing the latest versions of Firebird and Thunderbird for those unfortunate Windows using people. You might also provide information on the vulnerabilities of IE and Outlook, and suggest that stopping popups and spam are great holiday gift from programmers around the world…

(If that last bit tended to ramble a little, I’ve probably had too much egg nog…)

Gee, how was my timing yesterday in mentioning Atom feeds… See this:

Since yesterday there’s more than a million active Atom 0.3 feeds at
http://www.livejournal.com/users/[username]/data/atom

Wow…