Life has made several turns in the last few weeks and I am not in the mood to write about it ....yet. Nonetheless I still feel the urge to keep you, the reading protagonist, up to date.

Currently I am muddling around with a cunning idea to have a vent for my bogged down mind. I am still in the planning stage but a rough plan has already been plotted out in my mind. The idea is quite simple, I'll just try to write a page per week or even more easier, I'll try to write at least once a week not counting the words sentences or thoughts. The question that is still open, will it be a journal or a story. Well, I am a lousy journal writer as you have been seen but writing stories....... we will see.

Why I want to do this? Quite simple I don't want to get a work induced, thought related, personal meltdown. Writing should help me keep my mind in a pattern that's more or less structured. I know that this will not stop my now frequent brain farts but at least it should provide an entertaining read for you.

Since this "project" should help me think in a more structured way it will also be necessary to follow some predefined, simple rules. As soon as I have a clear understanding of what they should be, I'll post them here.

I recently played around with the folksonomy plugin just to notice that it does not really like the $relatedstories and $relatedtags variables. Digging around in the code I saw that something fishy was happening with the way the folksonomy table got created. I tried to understand what happened there exactly but failed miserably. But yesterday I had an aha moment. Martin really, really helped my figuring out

• What the code is supposed to create
• Why I did not work as expected
• Rewrite it in a way that it actually works

So after some hacking we got it working again. Without further ado take a look at the entries and phear the power of related stories.

I stil need to find a nicer CSS layout but hey I still have a few days of my holidays left to fix it.

So I did what a had to do and revived my 3 year old pyblosxom layout. After some fiddling around with some div's I think it is ready to be looked at. What do you think? This is the first day of my holidays so expect more to come, or not.

First post with the new/old blog system. I used pyblosxom before, then took a break, switched to wordpress and then once more came back to pyblosxom. There are several reasons for it.

1. Ease of use

   Although the setup seems more complicated, pyblosxom is easier to use. All you have to do is to create text files. Wordpress on the other hand, while easy to set-up, is operated via a web interface. Yes of course you can use one of the available blog editors to create new entries or even use the mail interface, but then it gets more complicated.

2. Pythonic flavour

   So you edit you posts with a nice editor upload it to your blog/database and are happy with it. If you like it this way go on and use other blogging tools. Pyblosxom on the other hand is very close to the first blogging system widely used blosxom with the difference that it is written in python instead of perl. If you want to use blosxom instead of pyblosxom go on and do it I won't stop you. The thing is, blogging started as a fast way to get your ideas/thoughts/ramblings postet with out much thinking about the layout. We should really go back to the basics and do this.

3. Funkiness

   Databases and PhP are really great fun but what nothing beats playing with Python.

To be continued......