I reworked the main site of this domain, which serves as a memo board for my family members. Previously, the site was generated on a local copy of Postnuke, from which I generated static html pages. There was a time in the past that I enjoyed created websites from bare HTML, but that time is long ago. It revived shortly when I discovered the joy of CSS, but I still hate digging into HTML and Javascript code, and besides, getting IE to render code 'correctly' is such a drag anyway.
Unfortunately, I cleaned up my old computer a bit too thoroughly, when I removed the Postnuke database. So I tried to set up a recent Postnuke version on my new PC, but apparently Postnuke doesn't play well in a modern LAMP enviroment (Apache2, PHP5, ...). Postnuke seems a dead rotten corpse too, if you're searching for some decent themes, so I knew I had to abandon this crapware. I tried Blosxom, but that hasn't decent theming support, and I still didn't want to create a new theme myself, as it meant diving into HTML again.
So I decided to give up serving webpages myself, and to create a weblog on a blog provider. Skynetblogs seems to be sunken in a pool of advertisements, so I created the whole bunch on Blogsome, which uses Wordpress to serve content. Looks good, albeit a bit slow. I had to debug the 'Happy Birthday' calculator, as it seemed that it was ridden with Y2K bugs in Internet Explorer. (or IE would be stricter in processing Javascript code, which wouldn't surprise me).
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