Blosxom was ill
My blog was down for a while because I thought blosxom had broken — permalinks to articles didn't seem to work.
In fact, the only problem was that some of my articles about linux.conf.au had paths like /weblog/conf/lca/2005. It looks like paths with numeric components kick off Blosxom's heuristic for searching by date rather than by name.
This is some kind of lesson about not giving inputs too many magic meanings, I suppose.
posted Wed 1 Sep 2004 in /meta/blosxom | link
Offline Blosxom-style blogging
A strength of systems like Blosxom and PyBlosxom is that they record all your entries as a tree of unix files, stored on the server.
So how do you record or edit entries when you're offline? One way is to store little files on a laptop, and then remember to upload them later. But this is a bit gross.
A better way is to use Unison to keep a mirror of your Blosxom document tree on your laptop. You can edit either end. When you're connected, resynchronize and it will help you resolve changes made to either end.
posted Fri 16 Jan 2004 in /meta/blosxom | link
Blosxom Emacs Joy
Doug Alcorn had an emacs save-buffer-same-timestamp function, useful for editing Blosxom posts.
posted Wed 4 Jun 2003 in /meta/blosxom | link
Backdating entries in Blosxom
Blosxom stores everything in Unix files, which is a nice simple system and makes it easy to edit. The date for each entry is just taken from the file's modification time.
The only catch is that any edited entries are moved forward to the current day.
Fortunately there is a good fix for this in the GNU touch -d command, which can set the file's time to any arbitrary point in the past or future.
The other thing I did was just put this line into the Blosxom configuration, because the noisehavoc host is not in Canberra (by a long way.)
$ENV{'TZ'} = 'Australia/Canberra';
posted Wed 4 Jun 2003 in /meta/blosxom | link
first Blosxom post
This is my first Blosxom post.
posted Tue 3 Jun 2003 in /meta/blosxom | link
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