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I am the Earl of Preston

6th September 2009

Paul Wise recently reported that the Planet Debian search index hadn't updated since the 7th of June. The search function is something I added to the setup, and although I don't use it very often when I do find it enormously useful.

Anyway normal service should now be restored, but the search index will be missing the content of anything posted for the two months the indexer wasn't running.

Recently I tried to use this search functionality to find a post that I knew I'd written upon my blog a year or so ago, which I'd spectacularly failed to find via grep and my tag list.

Ultimately this lead to my adding a search interface to my own blog entries using the namazu2 package. If I get some free time tomorrow I'll write a brief guide to setting this up for the Debian Administration website - something that has been a little neglected recently.

ObFilm: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

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So helpless against what is coming.

14th April 2008

I've made a new release of the chronicle blog compiler.

There are a couple of minor changes to the variables exported to the theme templates, as contributed by MJ Ray, and a new spooling system.

This works in a simple fashion, and allows you to queue up posts. For example If you write a new entry containing the psuedo-header "Publish: 20th April 2008" and you have a crontab entry containing this:

  chronicle-spooler
    --spool-dir=~/blog/spool/  \
    --live-dir=~/blog/data/  \
    --post-move='cd ~/blog && make upload'

It works as expected. When you call this on the 20th April the file will be moved from ~/blog/spool into ~/blog/data, and your blog will be rebuilt & uploaded.

The implementation was different than the original suggestion, but is nice and clean, and can be used to do other things with a little bit of effort.

Anyway if you see this entry the spooling system is working!

ObQuote: 30 Days of Night.

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Other things just make you swear and curse

26th June 2007

I find myself in need of a simple "blogging system" for a small non-dynamic site I'm putting together.

In brief I want to be able to put simple text files into "blog/", and have static HTML files build from them, with the most recent N being included in an index - and each one individually linked to.

At a push I could just read "entries/*.blog", then write a perl script to extract a date + title and code it myself - but I'm sure such a thing must already exist? I vaguely remember people using debian/changelog files as blogs a while back - that seems similar?

Update: NanoBlogger it is.

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