More blogging search, kids, travel
There’s been some (usual) neglect of this blog on my part, mostly due to (usual) lack of time, etc. I’ve been traveling a little on business and for pleasure, but also have not had much to say/put up here. Can’t really call this a proper weblog, rerally — it is not active enough, I suppose.
I am still on the look-out for a tool to make this whole thing easier. While BlogMax seemed like a nice tool (and I am still using it) at the start, I am not happy with a few things (most of them were mentioned before):
- It forces me to type this up in a wierd mixture of proper and improper HTML. By proper I mean that I am intentionally typing this up as close to “proper” as I can — I am not relying on BlogMax’s magic of turning plain text (and it ain’t all the plain to start with) into a HTML.
- It’s RSS proc is really bad, and I can’t seem to be able to easily fix it — looks a lot likelier that it simply needs to be re-written.
I’ve given a try to Markdown as a stand-alone thingie (i.e. I’ve piped some text files through it) and results are really good, but does not help to actually maintain a blog — only stroies within one.
As stated before, since this is not an active blog, more of a random notes/opinions/ideas, Norm’s approach seems a lot more fitting here as well, but I am not too inclined to re-implement the whole of his model, since it won’t allow me to really do it from any where (not like I can now either though), and also since it is not trivial technically — there’s lots and lots of dependencies, etc. that need to be addressed...
I guess I keep on barking onto the same tree...
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As for kids, our daughter is growing — and we can’t stop being amazed at what pace! Seems like it was only yesterday (a clichè, I know), that she was just a tiny something that could easily fit onto my forearms, but — no longer... To make her parents happiest couple in the world, she’s so smart for her two and a half years — it is at times scary. The other day, when we were in Vienna, taking a short touristy ride in a horse carriage, when told that we have to get off the carriage when we come to a stop, and no, we won’t be riding more, since horses are too tired and need to rest she replied without as much as wink of an eye: Well, we’ll just ride the next one in line, then.
