Well, I’m back. And if I wasn’t so damn tired I’d write-up what I did last week. It’ll have to wait. #
I’ve finally started to look seriously at re-designing this whole site. Using CityDesk for everything just isn’t working for me anymore. I’d like to be able to blog from work, or from the laptop when I’m at home. Unfortunately, excellent though it is, CityDesk is tied to my desktop machine in our home office. So I’m actively looking at building a simple ASP.NET framework that gives me some of the capabilities of CityScript, but with a dynamic database at the back-end instead of CityDesk’s static approach. I can then add some simple webforms to enable me to blog from anywhere I have a browser window. I’ll continue to use CityDesk to create the more static content, and this will all live under a new “weblog” sub-domain that I’ve set-up. I also plan to split-off the photo galleries into a separate sub-domain, XMLify them, and use a different page layout to the blog. Now all I need to do is find the time to do it…
And in other news:
Halley Suitt points to Michael Wilson’s account of escaping the WTC just in time. Raw, gripping, mandatory reading.
William Gibson steps out of the blogosphere, just as Brad Wilson returns.
Ray Ozzie steps in to try to save the web browser. Best of luck, mate.
Kraig Brockschmidt’s book “Mythic Microsoft“. Interesting, if you can filter-out the bogus spirituality.