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Wednesday, 2nd of September, 2009 12:47 pm UTC

2009 September 2: Update

After wasting a lot of time trying to install portable "stick" versions of apps so I can get my mail and remotely webmaster the site (all of which seem to have failed for some reason or another) I have went back to unpacking boxes and I think I've found the stuff I need to hook up the PC to the DSL connection.

So hang on -- I'm back, but still putting stuff together. I've colored some nifty art that Kitsune procured for us, drawn by the terrific Fred Perry, and I've unpacked more of my art studio.

Even after I get back direct access to the site, I'm still considering retiring Kipper, my content management system, in favor of something more mainstream (like Wordpress). Kipper's organizational structure is based on -- well, dialup. It assumes the user can't always access the internet. See, when you write directly into Wordpress and post your output to the web, your own work becomes inaccessible for long periods of time if your internet access is intermittent. You can go to the extra trouble of making copies of your work, but you don't automatically retain the structure of the posts. Kipper generates pages from structured batches of files that you can keep on hand, a purposeful redundancy for this former dialup user.

But if my internet access is more constant and dependable, that redundancy is no longer needed. I will be able to make better use of already-existing resources, and spend less time cobbling sad workarounds.

Meanwhile, on the non-virtual front (the real world), I mowed the new lawn for the first time last night (borrowed mower), and we may soon get some help getting a refrigerator. We're currently eating out of cans. Last night, Sweet Sue's chicken and dumplings, the night before Spaghetti-O's. Vienna saugages and crackers for lunch! And we ordered a new hose (seems to be missing) for the washing machine. For now, I'm going to have to tote some dirty duds down to the laundromat.