BlogMax vs. EmacsWikiMode
I have not run any remotely formal comparison of the two, but I’m inclined to blieve that EmacsWikiMode is more elegant and natural. I use PlannerMode, which is based on EmacsWikiMode to keep a collection of notes about on-going projects at work and must say that overall I am pleased with it. There are still a few gotchas in terms of overall usability and consistency of the workflow, but by and large it is very usable.
What puts me off a little is wiki stuff itself. It sort of feels silly, and then the name — “wiki.” What’s up with that? Where did it come from in the first place? Turned out it is Hawaiian word, or rather portion of it. Appaarently wiki wiki means quick.
Another little problem is that I’ll need to figure out a way to generate a calendar table if I were to switch. I’d also need to setup redirects to/from older content (well, not like there’s much of it, but...).
Ultimately, I would probably prefer to do content publishing more along the lines of Norman Walsh’s blog, i.e. by writing stories up in a subset of DocBook and publishing HTML/PDF/RSS content through XSL transformation.
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On a slightly different issue: I’ve been trying to turn my old ThinkPad 770E into a WAP for home LAN. Sure, I could find a cheap one in a store and not waste 3-4 nights doing this, but the sheer joy of fiddling with all things technical...
Anyway, the verdict is as follows: FreeBSD 5.x series are a death row for this aincient piece of hardware (It’s from 1998 — nearly six years old!): while standalone it would boot without any issues, the moment PC Card goes into a slot — things get very dicy. It locks up. Something to do with ACPI resource allocation. I suspect that a non-functioning battery is not helping here either.
FreeBSD 4.5 is behaving a lot more gracefully. I just don’t feel like upgrading it all the way to recent -STABLE (is is 4.9?)...
