Site update + Pooka

How do you improve a really crummy weekend?

Easy, Pooka (aka christina) stops by to hit your favorite italian dive for chicago-style pizza and big thick slabs of garlic bread, chased with frosty droughts of Guinness.

We ended up not having pizza, even though that was the whole purpose, but that's alright.

Yum. This is the good garlic bread too- thick as your wrist, with diced bits of garlic on top... I love that place, and it's one of the things I like about a larger city.

Great food, reasonably priced, and good service. Generally when I'm traveling I'll find two of the three, but Chicago just has them everywhere... and nothing kills my evening faster than a lousy meal.

On another note, I went to town on drunkenblog yesterday since I had a few hours in the morning and evening. It's been bothering me for a long, long time and it feels good to actually make some headway into having it look decent. I hate how those things drag on.

What's the saying? Too busy working on other peoples stuff to work on your own, yadda yadda yadda... I can't even really use that as an excuse, as it isn't as though I care much about this site compared to my others... but it's fun to get your hands in some CSS again after banging your skull against IE v5's rendering engine for a few months (damn you corporate standardized desktops!).

At least its not so heavy anymore, and is on the way towards real improvement.

Still have to (in no particular order):

~~Cleanup the front page~~
Cleanup the left-hand side, lots of linkage not yet linked.
Cleanup the individual, monthly, category & search pages
Cleanup the comments
Experiment with a richer RSS feed
Experiment with some of the newer mt plugins
Implement categories
I've upgraded 4 friends' installs of mt, yet mine is still running 2.6.2... should prolly look into upgrading the mt install

~~Playing~~Experimenting with some of the newer mt plugins provides a good excuse to look at more perl code before v6 ships and it makes its break for sentience.

I'm going to have to get to adding the categories at some point, as I have a lot of 10.3 bash-specific stuff to throw up at some point, similar to the 10.2 tcsh-specific stuff, but without category linkage its a drag to have to find it all.

I wonder if I'll actually get around to it before 10.4, or 2005, whichever is sooner...