Today, I intended to write articles on here, read books and mend fences, but a stanley knife had other ideas. So I now have a inch long plus gash on my middle finger on my left hand and can't climb for two weeks. Other than that I'm fine...
It is amazing just how much you use all your fingers, trying not to use one is quite hard, like tying shoe laces or typing
reactions to life: May 2003 Archives
I've spent the weekend climbing at Mile End climbing wall, which is a great place to learn to climb, plenty of bouldering and a good atmosphere.
I've also been hacking about behind the scenes on this site and have a new design nearly ready and I've started to explore the MT plugins that are available. I discovered that there are nearly 30,000 words here already.
Doing so has highlighted another thing to climb, that of perl, apache and unix config. All the documentation that I can find is focused on either developing Perl apps or becoming a unix sysadmin. I used to know some of this stuff, but you forget it quickly if you don't use it.
One thing I think would be really helpful would be a guide to installing and using perl based MT plugins. I guess a minimal apache and perl guide, focused on getting MT, blosxom or even wikis up and running, and then how to extend them. Ideally it would be OS themed with a separate guide for MacOS X, BSD and Linux or Windows.
Towards the end of last summer I was walking home behind a guy talking to his girlfriend, he said that he wanted to just be normal, like other guys and get a job. I heard it on my way home maybe nine months ago and it still comes back to be from time to time. It makes me realise my position in life a bit more, I've usually had a job and aspire to be more than normal. It makes the digital divide seem ever more apparent, social software doesn't do you much good if you've no money to get a computer and can't afford to waste money on latte and webcafes. Admittedly blogging et al do not set out to change the world for people like this guy and his girlfriend, but moments like that help give me some perspective.
