Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell

I bit the bullet and installed href="http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/download.shtml">blosxom 2.0
beta 2 and love the href="http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/plugin.shtml">new plugin
ability. So far I’ve added the calendar and categories to the right
side of the page.

For debian, I wrote a man page for blosxom. Any comments before I
check it it? Note that it refers to blosxom 0+5i…

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Here is a patch I sent to href="http://www.hollytree-house.co.uk/dme">David Edmondson to let
people customize the blog buffer the way they want it.

cd ~/
diff -c /home/marc/dme\:blog.el.orig /home/marc/dme\:blog.el
*** /home/marc/dme:blog.el.orig Mon Feb 10 14:39:09 2003
--- /home/marc/dme:blog.el      Mon Feb 10 14:44:11 2003
***************
*** 32,44 ****
  ;; at:
  ;; http://www.hollytree-house.co.uk/dme/log/

  ;; Feedback encouraged !

  (require 'easy-mmode)

  ;;; Customisation:

! (defvar dme:blog-destinations '(("~/var/blog" nil nil t))
    "A alist of places where the blog entries should be published.  Each
  entry in the list has four elements:
    dir     - the directory,
--- 32,55 ----
  ;; at:
  ;; http://www.hollytree-house.co.uk/dme/log/

+ ;; Marc Nozell       Mon Feb 10 14:44:04 2003
+ ;; Added dme:blog-post-find-hook so he could clean up the fixup the
+ ;; buffer after html-mode put in its stuff.
+ ;;
+ ;; Example:
+ ;; (add-hook ‘dme:blog-post-find-hook ‘(lambda ()
+ ;;                         (erase-buffer)
+ ;;                         (goto-char (point-min))))
+
+
+
  ;; Feedback encouraged !

  (require ‘easy-mmode)

  ;;; Customisation:

! (defvar dme:blog-destinations ‘((”~/public_html/blog” nil nil t))
    “A alist of places where the blog entries should be published.  Each
  entry in the list has four elements:
    dir     - the directory,
***************
*** 61,66 ****
— 72,80 —-
  (defvar dme:blog-pre-commit-hook nil
    “Hook run just before a blog entry is committed.”)

+ (defvar dme:blog-post-find-hook nil
+   “Hook run just after the blog entry is created.”)
+
  (defvar dme:blog-category nil
    “The category of the current blog item.  This is simply a directory
  below the blog directory (see the Blosxom documentation for more
***************
*** 168,173 ****
— 182,190 —-
              (insert body)))))

    (html-mode)
+   ; ready to start editing
+   (run-hooks ‘dme:blog-post-find-hook)
+
    (dme:blog-mode t))

  (defun dme:blog-gnus-pretty-group (group)

Diff finished at Mon Feb 10 14:44:16

While googling on wikis and blogs, I found David Edmondson’s nice
emacs hack: href="http://www.hollytree-house.co.uk/dme/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/emacs">http://ww
w.hollytree-house.co.uk/dme/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/emacs.

M-x dme:blog prompts for a blog entry name which
eventually is tied to the final filename. C-c s sets the
blog entry category (read subdirectory, perhaps nested ones) and
finally it uses the cvs check-in keystroke C-s # to ‘commit’
the blog by writing it to your blog directory with the creation time
part of the filename. For example this file is saved as
200302101358_blogging-emacs-mode.txt. The editing buffer is
in HTML major mode, so all the HTML editing binding are set.

I’m not too keen on how html-mode puts all the HTML ‘dressing’ at the
top and bottom of the entry — it is nice for random web pages but a
bit over kill for a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/perl/blosxom/">blosxom
entry. Perhaps a hack using html-mode-hook to remove the ‘dressing’
is in order.

Rael released a new version of
blosxom. While he
didn’t take my suggestion of adding a way to tag entries with icons,
he did rework blosxom to walk down through directories looking for
entries. At least I can keep entries organized a bit more.

Currently my categories are:

top
   |– blosxom/
   |– eye-candy/
   |– family/
   |   |– kids/
   |   ·– 
marc/
   |– geocaching/
   |– linux/
   |   |– apps/
   |   |– config
/
   |   |– debian
/
   |   ·– t
ips/
   ·– us/
       ·– civil-liberties/

A tip of the hat to the Linux command href="ftp://mama.indstate.edu/linux/tree/">tree which generated
the initial HTML for the above.

Ximian’s Evolution, an Outlook look-alike for Linux, is now my primary email client and can display RSS headlines on its ‘Summary’ page. To have blosxom (version 0+3i) to display, create a newsfeed with a URL like this: http://www.nozell.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/xml. Don’t get it wrong since Evolution 1.0.2+ doesn’t seem to have a way of changing a newsfeed once created. (Hint: edit ~/evolution/RDF-urls.txt)

blosxom 0+2i incorrectly sorts entries. Sent Rael a patch to use mtime instead of ctime.

Blosxom looks
nice and simple. Unfortunately I always misspell it.

I typically use my Linux laptop for work and surfing, so I’ve wrote a
one-liner to use rsync to securely update my blog notes. If you use
ssh-agent, you won’t even need to type your ssh password more than
once a day.

#!/bin/bash
rsync –exclude ‘*~’ -azv -e ssh ~/public_html/blog/*.txt nozell@www.nozell.com
:~/HTML/marc/blog/