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Tony Adams
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about the Meta Category
This category is for stuff about the blog itself - the software, the servers, whatever as well as the mental process and the whole idea of blogging.

I don't imagine that most people will find it very interesting, but then again, I'm not sure that anyone else will ever read this stuff anyway. Of those who do read it, I'd guess that a majority of them may be bloggers themselves who may find this category interesting.

I'm not overjoyed with the default behavior or posting everything on the main page - especially when it comes to meta stuff. If, let's say, Mom is using this site to stay up to date on what is going on in my life, I'm pretty sure that a detailed record of all the tools and processes that go into making this blog happen will not be interesting to her. If I had a shred more ambition, I'd look into a way to not have the meta stuff show up on the main page by default.

That is probably not the fault of blosxom which I'm told, rhymes with "awesome". As usual, I tossed the thing up and started using it before I bothered to actually read much of the documentation. I have little experience with these things, so I'm in no position to rant or whine about blosxom yet. It seems to get the job done. Most of the busted stuff here is actually a result of my convoluted framing. I want to have a simple url at atoms.net and yet actually run the software on my local network... it is a long and boring story. But I will figure out a better way soon.

I'm also using Blapp for an editor. It is a nice Mac OS X tool. It needs a bit of work still. bloxsom is cool in that one can use any editor at all - it uses plain text files and the file system to organize them, but Blapp has a nice publish feature which uses rsync, which is really cool for me, since I may forget once in a while and edit a file on the server rather than my on local machine.

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