27.06.2003
Friday - last day of a week off
And rather a busy week it was. Still coming to the end of it is good in one way (done the exam, did various other things that I had to do) but bad in others (didn’t really even scratch the surface of what I really wanted to get done). One of the things I had meant to do was work on isileth.org which I have done a little of, but not that much.
I need to look at dotfiles and get them fixed. I don’t use most of those anymore (found newer, more interesting ways of doing some of it) and I need to write up the files in there to give some idea of what they do and how they are used. It seems like I get a fair few referrals into that directory and I would imagine most people are disappointed with the contents. I got the idea of a “dotfiles” directory from perkypants.org - the website of one Jeff Waugh (from SLUG - the Sydney Linux Users Group). SLUG are a very friendly group of linux users and have some very good mailing lists (I’ve been subscribed to them for many a year now). Jeff is now Gnome2 Release Manager and doing a very good job from all accounts - his site can be found here.
Which brings me to a point that has been interesting me all week - the whole morass of interesting weblogs (for some reason, I don’t like the term “blog” - don’t know why) and trying to keep up with them. It seems the RSS or News aggregators are the way to go but I’ve been trying to find one I’m happy with. It need to run on linux, preferably outputs html and doesn’t run as a webserver. One candidate I’ve found is blagg - but this either needs a local copy of Movabletype (which I don’t have) or blosxom which I don’t have either (yet). I am looking at running it on my local linux gateway (then I can rysnc it up to isileth.org).
One of the reasons why I’ve been looking at aggregators is that I use a lot of different machines these days. Between the Zaurus (which with the new Opera is a very capable web browsing machine these days), my linux laptop, my work windows2000 laptop and my main machine at home, I have far too many browsers and far too many bookmarks. Normally I try and remember where the hell I last read the site I’m thinking about but then I can’t remember and didn’t bookmark it on any of the machines either:(
A nice linux console based aggregator which is still in early development is raggle which is written in Ruby (not a language I have ever looked at) - might play with that today if I get time.
I have been looking at bookmark managers but I would need to be able to update from anywhere (which most of them do offer) but I’d rather not run a mysql database for it (although I would if I had to). I will probably end up writing my own little perl cgi script to do it (after all, there is nothing quite like re-inventing the wheel yet again, is there?) and host it on the linux gateway. That way, I can get to it from anywhere.
Although I could try and use bookmarks.yahoo.com again - I normally have a backup of the work bookmarks on that - we’ll see.
Now I have things to do - although I’ll probably just read about trackbacks 