Welcome¶
This is Steven F. Lott’s welcome page. S_LOTT at YAHOO.COM.
For the profoundly bored, my annual holiday letter for 2008 is available. The prior decade+ is here for comparison purposes: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996. I plead insanity.
Here’s a must-see time-saver, and the Big Picture.
The personal side has sections in decreasing order of use to others: Public stuff is links which are definitely useful; Places to Travel are travel destinations. Professional stuff is useful to people who work with me or in the same industry; Personal is...well...mostly useful to me only; Pride is other junk I felt like posting. (Isn’t a personal website just an exercise in cyber-vanity?). Punny is a humor section.
- Public
- Places to Travel
- Annapolis - Sailing
- Bonaire - SCUBA
- Grand Cayman - SCUBA
- Champlain Sailing Charter Trip Report, ‘04
- Costa Rica Travel
- Curaçao - SCUBA
- Las Vegas, NV
- Long Beach - Sailing
- Okracoke Island
- Rehoboth Beach, DE - Sailing
- San Diego - Sailing
- San Francisco - Sailing
- Tortola - Sailing and SCUBA
- Bonaire SCUBA Diving Trip Report, ‘99
- Bonaire SCUBA Diving Trip Report, ‘01
- Tortola SCUBA Diving Trip Report, ‘03
- Champlain Sailing Charter Trip Report, ‘04
- Bonaire SCUBA Diving Trip Report, ‘05
History
This started as my web navigation bookmarks. Since I use so many computers (home, office, client site), I had to keep my bookmarks centrally. However, the tale grew in the telling until I wound up with over 5Mb of material in hundreds of files. This became complex and difficult to manage.
When I needed to provide an easy way to distribute my DVD’s, I revamped the site to have both a Hack Productions area and a personal book-mark area. Since Hack Productions was a simple sole-proprietership business, I didn’t want to get involved in separate web site, separate accounting, separate taxes.
Formerly, I used a Python program that generated the .HTML files from simplified files that have the basic content but lack any “look-and-feel” navigation content. This allows me to make small changes to the Python program that lead to vast changes in the layout of the site while preserving the basic content.
Then I used Cheetah to generate the site from templates.
I moved my photographs to the .Mac site becuase it supports seamless integration with my desktop via Apple’s iPhoto application. It doesn’t get any simpler or more elegant than that!
Then, when iWeb came out (as part of iLife), Apple slowly coaxed me into using a slightly different configuration for my photos and what-not. Apple also changed their URL’s and branding moving things to my me.com site.
Now, I’m using Sphinx to generate the text from templates. Sphinx has a slightly smarter generator than Cheetah and a bunch more bells and whistles for generating complex structures from a lot of simples files. Finally, Sphinx uses reStructuredText markup instead of HTML.
To Do
Aren’t there always TODO’s? My To Do List.
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| date: | May 28, 2009 |
