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Blogging in my pajamas

Well I'm not really. That's not to say I never have, but I'm not right now.

Although I quite like the term 'the pajamahadeen' which I picked up from this weeks Time magazine.

It's a strange world when I learn about geek cultire from Time magazine. Except, of course, blogging isn't geek culture any more, it's collaborative computing enabling vocal analysis of the establised media, politics etc.

And, of course, the odd Microsoft joke. Except that an operating system that allows an application flaw to result in the execution of data (a la the latest jpeg vulnerability) is no joke.

So in line with the new respectability of blogging (and more that I am interested in putting more effort than over some months this year) will lead to some more features around here.

First up will be a longer articles section. I'm playing with ideas, but I think the article pages will be driven by something I'm terming a "compositing" module—it will let me stitch blog entries, photos and other content together into a homogeneous article.

I'm also going to get around to uploading photos less than a year old (any day now...)

I've also made the first major colour change in a year, and I'm not sure I'm happy with it. Of course to make the site start looking nice I'm going to have to get rid of the auto-generated ascii-art headings. Like that's going to happen.

I also don't like the proscriptive "latest two" entries on my home page, or the fact that the developer blog is always at the bottom. But then I don't like "read more" links either, and it can't get too long.

I'm open to ideas—please comment.

I know you're reading this—I have the usage stats to prove it ;) Yes, that includes you Croatia.

07:03 AM, 27 Sep 2004 by Mark Aufflick Permalink

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