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Something seems odd with Muse and Blosxom, either I'm not using it right or I've found myself a bug.

I've got Muse configured so that all *.muse files in an arbitray directory structure are recognised, then published into *.txt files for Blosxom to find. I then have pyblosxom generate *.html and indexes, or at least that's the intention. What I've found so far is that:

• Muse publishes ~/muse/abc.muse to ~/blosxom/abc.txt
• Muse publishes ~/muse/test/def.muse to ~/blosxom/test/def.txt

Which is all well and good, however:

• Muse publishes ~/muse/test/2006/xyz.muse to two files, ~/blosxom/test/2006/xyz.txt and ~/blosxom/2006/xyz.txt

As a result of this last feature, when pyblosxom publishes from txt to html, it sees two copies of anything that was in a numeric year-like directory, and I end up with two copies in the indexes!

End of the day, a hot windy day. All manor of nagging small items lurk in the background to annoy me.

• I've nearly got Muse and Blosxom to where I could change over to them, except for the odd double-publishing problem — and I don't know whether it's a bug or operator error.
• The Edge305 GPS hung this afternoon, first time in months. Maybe I left it plugged into the USB cable when I rebooted the PC, that always seemed to kill it when it was new and running its older software.
• Came home to find a 2m branch broken off the Callistemon and lying over the car. Wind or vandalism, no idea, just more emergency gardening needed!
• Building has commenced on the house(s) next door. The frames are up for the ground floor and already it looks to be looming over our fence and into our garden — I hate to think what it'll be like with the completed two-storey houses there.

Lunch spent under the trees in one of the university courtyards, the almost summer heat and blustery wind makes everything smell of dust and eucalyptus — the Australian bush in suburbia.

Global warming or just an unusually hot spring? Who knows, the aussie government is stuck somewhere in the 1950s, so they should be able to analyse the historical data! As for the rest of us, we just have to live here. Damn.

Shut out the world and sit in the shade, I started reading Burton's The Arabian Nights, the short stories fit nicely into workday lunch breaks, unlike the 800+ pages of Quicksilver that was the last book I read at work.

Please stand by...

I broke it, I'll fix it....

Copies of photos I've taken, mostly just snap-shot quality, but some are worse! Here they are organised by which roll of film or date-based upload they are on, elsewhere they are used on other pages. The folder titles are loosely related to the contents, I had a habit of taking photos so infrequently that film-based rolls lasted for ages, so the title of a roll of film might apply to some or all of the contents.

Its all undergoing a bit of a restructure. Initially I had folders of all the photos from a roll of film, then when I started using a digital camera I was loading photos in here in folders that corresponded to the date I emptied the camera. Completely arbitrary, so as of about December 2004 I started splitting the photos up by the day that I took them, and linking them into each day in the journal. So I haven't stopped taking photos — I'm just putting them somewhere else. They're all tagged to varying degrees of accuracy; time, date, location, contents — I'll add in some searching here one day... and along the way I promise not to break any existing links.

June 2006 and it was still all a mess. It wasn't just me that noticed the mess, I was asked whether I still put my photos here, and why were they so hard to find. That's it then! Definitely time for a rethink.

While I fiddle about here, I also keep some of my photos on Flickr — because everyone has photos on Flickr, some on Fotothing — because I fell in touch with Fotothing's developer while finding out about annotating photos, and some on Fotonomy.

When I get it all written and working, you'll be able to look at photos individually — but that's easy — or by album or collection, and hopefully by who or what is in them, or when or where they were taken.