Web Vanity: June 2006 Archives

I have been using Furl since it opened up and quite satisfied with the way it works. I have also used del.icio.us as a resource to see what's hot around the net, even had an account though I hadn't used it for storing much of anything. Yesterday, I decided to export my Furl links and import them into my del.icio.us using their import facility. It went very smoothly except for what I think is a major problem: it marked all of the 1750+ links as not shared, hidden from the public view. In a system like this, one that is used by the gazillion or so folks on the web, you would think that there would be a make 'em all public click. Well, there isn't. So, I am off to look at the API to see if there is a way to undo this with a little perl magic. Don't forget - today is 06-06-06, the apocalypse date. Beware of evil spirits!

In an effort to move to the next layout design, something I usually do every 6 months or so, I decided for the moment to emulate the look and feel of my blog. The basic MovableType blog layout is a simple one and, since I converted back to MT, I think that I'll tinker with MT-driven layouts. Since the stylesheet is a general one and the layout is basic two-column menu on the right, I decided to transform the whole site. Since I use a combination of SSI and a homegrown perl CMS, the transformation took about 10 minutes, including a new this section contains block at the top of each page. It may not be the fanciest or the most original, but it will keep things running while I add more content and do some creative work.