Okay, I’m putting this blog on Planet Debian... now. The old one is not gone yet, because I’m tired and I don’t think I’ll do it until tomorrow.

In a fit of hubris, I wrote some software to run this blog (which is just a bunch of generated static files), called Mnemosyne. I was bored of PyBlosxom and it was slow. I believe Erinn said something like, now it’s only a matter of time until I write my own RCS... If I get to that point I will really start worrying. If anyone is looking for something along these lines, please tell me what sucks and/or what is broken.

Anyway, rather than categorizing things (ugh), I’m just putting anything tagged “planet” in the feed that goes here. I think this will work better.

Oh, and I almost forgot: my blog now has automatic flooding-prevention. Nothing older than a day gets in this feed. I don’t know why feeds in general don’t have some sort of time limit.

Actually, what really bothers me about the GTK+ file dialogs is having to click “Browse for other folders” every single time I open the one for saving. (Last I looked this up, the only solution was to patch GTK+.)

My understanding of all this touchy-feely user-interface stuff is that humans are supposed to be oriented spatially (classic Finder) or by breadcrumbs (Netscape). A tiny little dropdown with a text label of just the current directory's name (not even a full path) gives me no idea whatsoever “where” I am. I constantly save things in the wrong directory from Firefox.

While basename $PWD is all the directory information I put in my shell prompt, I can do considerably more from there, and new shells don’t tend to pop up two hours later when you forgot where you cd’d to last time. What is acceptable for me there is not acceptable for a normal user here. I really don’t get what they were thinking.