Rantings of a Nerd

The server is down again. I will have it backup and running good as new some time in the near future. Thanks for you patience.

Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines

Guess what I am looking at this for?

If you have been following my web site nightmare, and I know you have, then you are seeing what it looks like when someone works without training wheels. I love the power and the possibilities of recreating the whole site using pretty much raw materials, but I am learning that I have ignored my basic HTML skills for too long.

The nifty little generators that toss in some java script or DHTML are handy, but they rarely do exactly what you want. If I use flash menus, then some people can't see them. Specifically some Linux geeks completely refuse to use flash. Let's face it, I am counting on some of those geeks to be my core audience. I can't alienate them by choice of a web tool.

The funny thing to me is that Plone had so much overhead, but it got out of the way for putting text up on the site. Now I have no overhead and no formatting problems, but I am finding the site navigation to be a pain.

The truth is that I know what to do, I just don't want to do it. I need to sit down and create a site map by hand and then create the pages and navigation links. Once I do that it will be easy to just crank out the code.

For now, please ignore the uncentered graphics and horrid layout. It will get back to something that is usable.

So there I was, in the Apple store...

Well it was on the shelf and I said, it is not cheap, but it was much cheaper than similar products. I am installing ubuntu on my mac and will see how that runs. I know, I know, you linux gurus will point out a dozen things that will let me do this at no charge, but this promises to allow me to run multiple OS's on one machine.

I can hope that this will work as advertised.

I have been spoiled by plone. I was using a portal tool for a website. Now I have brushed off my incredibly weak web design skills and started recreating the Eternal Emperor web site. So far I have just been playing with tools and trying out features. Do not expect it to stay the same and in fact, it may be completely rewritten several times.

I am pondering creating a version for mobile devices, and a version with frames and flash. Watch and see what happens when I try to catch up on a decades old technology.

I have given up on the plone portal, I am going to slowly rebuild the site from scratch. It will be much faster and have more features once I am done. For now, it is basically just an under construction page.

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This is just way cool.

SourceForge.net: FreeDOS 1.0
This seems interesting. I love old school tech. This could be great for some of those old Turbo Pascal Apps I have sitting around on floppy drives.

I have no ETA and I am considering just putting up a static page and doing a redirect.

Sorry... my server is having issues right now all everything is offline until I can get the system back on-line. I may put up a static web page in the short term to get the stories back out there. If I do, I will redirect the URLs to that page.

Thanks for your patience.