A worm dropped in snow---
the robin's consternation:
hop, hop, hop, hop, hop.

Linux User Name Conventions [PDF]

Wind throws fallen leaves
against my bedroom window.
Alarm clock: be still!

I made a new vim cheatsheet, with which I'm unusually satisfied.

So, I wrote a blogging platform over the last couple of weeks. I call it Blelo as in tumblelog. This is still a fairly early version, but it's mature enough that it's useful. My motivation for writing my own blogging platform is that, among the existing open source blogging platforms, Wordpress comes closest to meeting my needs, but I've grown increasingly frustrated by Wordpress's bloat and security issues.

I wrote Belo with minimalism in mind for both the feature set and the code. I does include tags, an RSS feed, and some magic post auto-formatting. The README included with the distribution file should get you started if you want to play with it. Blelo requires Apache, mod_rewrite, PHP 5, and MySQL 5.