MemeMachineGo!

OK, so my right-hand column isn’t blank any more. My headlines were a hack to Movable Type , and they broke when I upgraded to 2.64. MT is pretty well-designed and built. But its internal representation of categories is somewhat cumbersome. This makes it clumsy to implement listing entries exclusive of a given category, which is what the main body of this blog did, courtesy of my hack: listed everything that wasn’t in category Headlines.

So rather than fix it and keep fixing it every time I upgraded, I gave in and did the more obvious thing, and implemented the sidebar as its own blog, which I display through David Raynes’ Otherblog plugin for MT. Yes, displaying entries from another blog is easier than excluding entries from a given category.

Then I had to write a script to move the existing entries to the new blog. I’m grateful to the folks who’ve put the MT Perl API documentation online here and here .

So that’s what I’ve been up to while not actually, say, posting to MemeMachineGo! Now I just need to actually learn some CSS and improve the layout…