Day: September 8, 2005

My Father’s .45

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I started to write this ten days ago, but have been unable to finish it with the intervening events. It felt self-involved to go on writing about an oddly painful memory of my father inspired by a replica firearm. So I put it away. Tonight, this just felt right, sitting alone on a thursday night, […]

I started to write this ten days ago, but have been unable to finish it with the intervening events. It felt self-involved to go on writing about an oddly painful memory of my father inspired by a replica firearm. So I put it away.

Tonight, this just felt right, sitting alone on a thursday night, my family sleeping, the smell and feel of winter in the air for the first time this year.

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Empty Archives

elvis

…yes, I know the category archives for this site seem to be empty. I’m playing with dynamic indexes to see if I can speed up rebuilds. Not quite working yet, and I’m not sure why. -edit- I couldn’t get that to work. It required some .htaccess surgery, and I couldn’t get it to produce any […]

…yes, I know the category archives for this site seem to be empty. I’m playing with dynamic indexes to see if I can speed up rebuilds. Not quite working yet, and I’m not sure why.

-edit-

I couldn’t get that to work. It required some .htaccess surgery, and I couldn’t get it to produce any output.

The idea is that you route the web server request through a php pre-processor and generate the pages on the fly rather than writing out index pages for everything, which is a great idea for pages people don’t hit that often. But something wasn’t right so I’ve tuned back to static publishing.