Ron's Info-Closet Annex
The online extension of Ron's Info-Closet.
Book links are usually to my Powell's affiliate program; game links are usually to Funagain Games, and benefit the Games to the Rescue Project.
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe@ludism.org
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I'm migrating my blog to a new location: RWHE Having Fun Yet? on LiveJournal. Hey, LiveJournal is free and open source. I make no apologies.
Entered 19:20 [/news] permalink
Will the three of you who are left...
...please tell your friends and relations that the feed for this blog is finally fixed, including both RSS and Atom versions?
I thought switching to an Atom feed would help with repeated feed entries, and it seemed to for a while, but after a few days duplicates started showing up in the Atom feed too.
Anyway, I tracked down the real problem, and posted about it to the Blosxom and Markdown lists. Michel Fortin, one of the devs on the Markdown list stepped up and offered to help fix the bug. Meanwhile, I have a workaround.
Thanks for your patience. Now I no longer feel... dirty... when posting to my own blog, I have a few things to say.
Entered 16:27 [/news] permalink
I have replaced the broken RSS feed for this blog with an Atom feed. Please do not use the RSS feed any more.
I noticed that since the RSS problem started, I've lost nearly all of my subscribers. I'm sorry I took so long to fix the feed; I'm a bad, bad blogfarmer. Please come back now.
Entered 11:57 [/news] permalink
This blog was off the ether(net) for a week or so because of an upgrade to Debian Etch that got stuck halfway, while I was stuck halfway across the country at Penguicon 5.0 and unable to do much about it. Fortunately, the wikis at Ludism.org were not affected.
Anyway, we're back. Next up I promise to fix the RSS problems that readers of this blog have noticed. Thanks for your patience.
Entered 22:59 [/news] permalink
Well, I updated Blosxom and no one complained, so I guess it wasn't too awful. At ease.
Entered 00:46 [/news] permalink
I plan to update the Blosxom engine underlying this blog soon, as well as fix some of the HMTL headers and so on. This means that you may see all of my blog entries show up as new in your RSS aggregator, maybe even twice.
I hate it when that happens on other blogs, so I thought I'd at least give you a heads-up. Can't be helped; a couple of people have had trouble with the RSS feed and stuff.
Entered 19:39 [/news] permalink
"What's going on? I'm frightened."
Whence all this activity in the Info-Closet Annex? In the spirit of nulla dies sine linea, I have vowed to make at least one blog post a day from now on. What good is my jaw-dropping brilliance if it remains locked forever in my moleskine, never to be seen by those who would benefit from it most?
You are hereby conscripted to kick my ass at rwhe@ludism.org if I fail to meet this goal. Would you please do that? Would you kick the ass of a man?
Entered 00:00 [/news] permalink
I'm fed up with deloxom clutter. I bet you are too, if you read this blog. I've deleted all the old del.icio.us entries. I now use the syndicated plugin for Blosxom to create a linkblog in my sidebar from an RSS feed of del.icio.us/rwhe. Much tidier.
Happy now?
LocalNames documentation for Blosxom coming RSN.
Entered 06:03 [/news] permalink
This blog is one of the very first to use Lion Kimbro's [[LocalNames]], a quick and easy way to add automatic [[SC][WikiName]]-style linking to everywhere from everything -- wikis, web, blogs, email...
Since there is now an easy way to add [[LocalNames]] to [[Blosxom]], I'll soon be documenting how Lion and I set it up on this site, as well as on the [[CLS]] wikis, so you can do it too.
In other news, the Info-Closet Annex now has a multicolumn screen layout. I can't believe I put off learning how to do it so long, considering how simple it was.
Entered 12:44 [/news] permalink
I have turned off comments, writebacks, and trackbacks. Nobody was using them but black-market pharmaceutical spammers anyway.
To the spammers: fuck you, and the whores you rode in on, and the whores your whores rode in on, yea, unto the seventh generation.
Incidentally, now that I no longer have to concern myself with blog spam, my enthusiasm for the blog has risen sharply. Today marked my first entry in two and a half months.
Entered 22:00 [/news] permalink
In a massive effort to roll this blog uphill into the 21st century, I have added the ability to autodiscover TrackBack Ping URLs from links in my blog posts and ping them automatically. This functionality is brought to you courtesy of the autotrack Blosxom plugin. It still won't reping someone who pings me, but I'm not sure I want that functionality anyway. Thanks to Iain Cheyne, who helped me out with my first ping, and Sebastian Banker, whom I've been pestering. If I can only figure out how he got Markdown to work with writeback...
Entered 00:51 [/news] permalink
The Annex now has writebacks, which are a Blosxom combination of comments and trackbacks. In order to get them to work, I've had to move from a date-based permalink system to a category-based system. Unfortunately, this means I can no longer be so cavalier about moving blog entries from category to category; fortunately, all the old date-based permalinks still work.
Try commenting on this post if you want to see how things work.
Entered 07:13 [/news] permalink
In response to a suggestion by Chris Brooks, I have added the <pubDate> tag to the RSS feed for this blog. If your aggregator is at all sensible, it will no longer redisplay every story on the front page of my blog every time I change a stylesheet.
The way to truth was made manifest to me on Lychnis, although the times stated by my feed are PST rather than GMT. Sadly, this means that the times will be an hour off for six months out of every year, including right now (I have to specify either PST or PDT, statically, unless I hack Blosxom), but since roughly 23/24 of the world is in another timezone than Pacific anyway, and doesn't care what my local time is, I guess that doesn't make so much difference.
Thanks, Chris!
Entered 23:50 [/news] permalink
This blog is now running Markdown for Blosxom. Markdown is a human-readable markup language that can also be parsed by computers. I like it a lot! It seems to be the realisation of what the Setext project set out to do a decade ago, before its designers lost their gumption and disappeared. It certainly makes writing these blog entries a lot easier. (The first post here that explicitly invokes Markdown functionality is A little song about Grampa.)
One thing that isn't made clear at the Markdown site is that if you are already using HTML for your Blosxom blog posts, you can pretty much drop in the Markdown plugin and start using it right away without affecting your old posts.
Entered 14:17 [/news] permalink
Marty just read and commented on my earlier post, and now I would like to make two facts glassy-clear:
In other news, I have a new entry in memepool. Unlike other weblogs, memepool does not permit links to individual entries, so look for the "Robotics" entry of 31 October 2003.
Entered 16:27 [/news] permalink
The Info-Closet Annex opens to visitors
I've been thinking about doing a blog for a while, but didn't want it to be one of those whiny "Sorry I haven't been making any entries lately, man. I've been real busy. Uh, not much happened today except I had pancakes for breakfast." affairs.
Fortunately, I had the radiant example of Lion's Den, my friend Lion Kimbro's excellent blog, before me. I asked him what blogging software he was using, and he said it was pyBlosxom, which eventually led me to blosxom. (I prefer Perl to Python.)
I vow that no matter how long between entries I go in this blog, you will never, ever see an entry like the "pancake" one above.
In other news, yesterday I added a GeoURL tag to the front page of the main Info-Closet, so click the GeoURL icon at the top of the page to see where the Info-Closet is in "real" space.
Entered 20:47 [/news] permalink
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