AbbeNormal - Abbe NormalJohn Abbe's personal wiki-weblog, often writing on Lanka, wikis, MacOS, nonviolence, and whatever else i feel likeMore On The Wiki Pregnancy- January 6, 2004 We haven't settled on a wiki engine or even a language yet. WakkaWiki, the top current contender when i got involved, is PHP, and other promising wikis so far have been mostly that or Python or Perl. Our general inclination is toward simplicity (for accessibility and other reasons -- e.g., one wiki engine was rejected for being loaded with JavaScript). Specific features that are important to us: The 'basic' wiki features -- easy page linking, minimal markup, human-readable URLs,...http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?_AbbeNormal/001072737293.073446-MoreOnTheWikiPregnancy Yesterday Tomorrow- January 4, 2004 In an egregious breach of some people's ideas of WebLog etiquette, if i don't get to my final post or three tonight (likely) i will pre-date them to appear as 31 December 2003, otherwise PikiePikie (the system i'm using here) will show only the new month's posts.http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?_AbbeNormal/001072943485.6587189-YesterdayTomorrow New Page For Notes On New Wiki- January 3, 2004 Continuing notes on NcddWiki.http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?_AbbeNormal/001072943501.000000-NewPageForNotesOnNewWiki Blog Another Day- January 3, 2004 Goodbye AbbeNormal the WebLog, after more than two years. In the end, it's nothing against WebLogs, i just haven't found a way to blog and wiki well at the same time, and i miss wikiing. WikiWiki is a different way of thinking, slower, generally less concerned about what happened yesterday, and with blogging it's too easy for me to let myself get dragged into trying to be part of the RecentChanges of the web. Who wants to be popular I'll be reading and writing here in AbbeNormal, which has...http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?_AbbeNormal/001072943500.000000-BlogAnotherDay In Search Of- January 1, 2004 As anyone who's been reading probably knows, i don't have a church, either in terms of a local congregation or MyReligion. But i was talking with a friend a while ago and at some point we got to a term i'd never heard before, ChurchShopping. I went to GooGle of course, read ChurchShopping and you'll see what i found.http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?_AbbeNormal/001072936652.080333-InSearchOf Steady Progress- January 1, 2004 Thanks to everyone who responded, blogged, or forwarded to mailing lists my request for programmers (over the last few posts). I got an enthusiastic response from Lucy (hi Lucy!) and we met yesterday, we're considering WikkiTikkiTavi now, 'cause it looked fairly simple, has SisterSites, and is PhpLanguage & MySql, which Lucy knows. I'll respond to any e-mail y'all have sent over the next few days.http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?_AbbeNormal/001072914712.4183199-SteadyProgress |