Prometheus 6

Livin' for the weekend

Believe it or not, political discussion is NOT the only purpose of this weblog.

I'm working on software that I can hand out to other folks to support their political discussions. Weblogging will be a big part of that. So though I'll still be on the Wide Word Web reading rants, screeds and information (in the rough order these types of posts appear out there), I'll be working this weekend on Project One, desktop weblogging software.

Blogger will remain prominent in my efforts for a while yet. I remain pretty impressed with it, especially since I started using Internet Explorer to post. The user interface is just better under IE. Of particular importance is the little buttons that wrap highlighted text in anchor tags for you, thereby helping avoid the debacle of ill-formed anchors swallowing your text. (I'm still using Netscape 7.02 for my primary browsing platform. The tabbed user interface is just way too full of efficient browsing yumminess to bypass. I may check out Scope, which would let me have my Netscape cake and eat my IE pie, too. )

But I have some very specific functionality I want to add . . . community calendar and web site review blogging. This will require tables and templates specific unto the cause. And I have a cool concept or two for the community part of the calendaring, basically designed to let folks who only have dial-up collaborate on the calendar.

So when I get this basically working, this site will grow a couple of new sections. Blogger will still be used for the entry page, to wit, this one. And my new software will be used to publish the other one(s).

All this work and today's other posts will begin shortly after I'm done watching Yu-Gi-Oh!

posted by Prometheus 6 at 4/12/2003 07:35:43 AM |