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The MLA put out a list of must-read books. I was pleased to see the Pullman books on the list as I really enjoyed those. I’ve only read about half of the list…

Another entry into the blog software space. Lyceum from the good folks over at ibiblio.org. Via my friend Bob. Thanks, Bob.

I have a few web sites I design that are in need of a good community blog software framework. Here’s some research on the topic for my own memory-weak use:

Scoop powers DailyKos, and I like the look/feel of that site.

SlashCode powers a lot of newsy sites. A little too linear for what I’m after. I want more of a user account/diary kind of site. Where people can set up their own home pages and blogs.

PodCMS is a POD-based blog built with Catalyst. As I’m a recent convert to the Ways of Catalyst, I might switch this site to PodCMS. I’m going to test it out tonight.

WordPress is a heavyweight. Need to consider if it’s just the right fit or not.

GeekLog is certainly pretty and seems actively developed.

In the end, I am leaning toward Scoop. It’s Perl, which is obviously good for me since that’s my go-to language. And it’s explicitly community discussion oriented. That’s a good fit for what I have in mind for oealums.org in particular.

Selling my 1999 Saturn. Great car. Good condition. Ad here.

Update 2/28/06: Car is sold.

Having some trouble with poor performance with UW IMAP server finally pushed me over the edge today, so I migrated to Dovecot. A good move. Took me a while to figure out that I needed to turn OFF the namespace setting in my mail client (Mozilla, Thunderbird) in “Server Settings -> Advanced”. I also had to make the default mail dir ~/.maildir/.

This great Perl script eased the conversion of old mbox format to new maildir format.