Busy, Busy, Busy

Well, I'd like to say something meaningful (I have a commentary on the media's job covering the war in my head), but I'm rather busy at the moment. As I noted last week, I'm working on something new for this blog: an entirely new content management system (well, not entirely new, it will be based on my SAFARI IssueWorks package, but will have lots of nice features that I've been working on.

In a way, my starting this project last week was a real blessing. I had been meaning o make SAFARI (Standardized Automated File Archiving and Retrieval Interface) more useful for some time for non-issue based content (that is stuff that isn't published in monthly, weekly, or other types of “issues”), and last week I decided to take that on as a fun project.

Right now, I'm running my variant of Ciaran's very cool blogging software which is an amazingly light piece of code (only a handful of kbytes for the whole thing!). It is great, but I realized some of the stuff I wanted to implement for it already existed in SAFARI (stuff like the ability to edit posts, delete them, etc.). Further, I wanted to replace the holey mess known as PHP-Nuke on Open for Business. I knew it had problems for the las [Rest of the post disappeared for some reason. See my comment below for the text of what it said.]