First, because this precludes the notion I've had for a while that neThing is meant to be a gateway of streams, where multiple sources, including the stuff generated from the site itself, feed the postMonster (the backend that handles these things).

Two, because its too complicated. What makes a blog post different than an article post? In reality nothing except a few bits than can be more than handled with a checkbox or two when creating a post.

So, now all posts are posts. They are still identified by where they originated from, such as Twitter, but otherwise blog posts are now fully converted into articles. Which means they have wiki discussion pages and histories. As far as the wiki bot is concerned it is an article and thus can be linked as such by name. Conflicts will arise and thus it will behoove me, and anyone else using neThing in the future, to mark master posts when multiple of them have the same name. The other posts would then use their POSTID as their permalink.

Also notice that the left slider menu is gone. Replaced by two much simpler archive boxes on the right side above the twitter panel. There is also an Archive page that can be accessed using the IDT logo menu up top. The first archive box is simple, it displays years, and then gives links to the months that had posts. The second archive box is a cloud of most tags.

That's all for now.

Don't hold your breath though. I wouldn't want any blood on my hands.

A couple years ago there was a website (probably still exists, I'll look for it in my bookmarks later) that did a really good job of doing comparisons for State of the Union Addresses and comparing them. You could take a word, like Terrorism or Iraq or whatever phrase you wanted and compare how many times they show up in a speech and compare these with multiple transcripts.

I think that might be a cool thing to try.

Doing this though allowed me to test some of the robustness of the site and find any errors, which I did. You can view the changelog to see what I fixed. I also added a new feature which I think can help the site if it the top menu starts to get cluttered.

In other news I've been mulling over how I want to approach posting more content to the site as most of it has ended up being political in nature or about the environment. This is in fact only a small portion of my daily life, where I actually spend most of my time programming, reading, and philosophizing.

I have never been good at organizing my self. For all my endeavors into doing so (book cases, file cabinets, plastic bins, cork board, etc), it has all amounted to organized chaos. Much like how this site came to be in the first place, where it is an attempt to bring a little order to my own chaotic mind, so I can have some semblance of backing up my otherwise intractable thoughts.

Hopefully I will do better.

Blog posts are date centric, meaning there is no criteria other than the date (down to the second) which makes a blog post unique. Any blog post can have the same name as any other. The reasons behind that are blog posts tend to be much more prolific than articles. If a blog post today has the same name as a blog post from two years ago, who cares. Blog posts are also very static, once a post is made it should remain as is.

Articles on the other hand are dynamic. They are changed from time to time based on new or changing information. This means they are name centric. There can be no articles of duplicate names, the name of the article should remain unchanged, and explain what the article is about.

Even though articles and blog posts use the same wiki text markup language to format the posts they do not interfere with each other. Blog posts of the same name as articles have no problems.

New Features

New UI features

Now people can navigate in deep thought using these keyboard shortcuts.

• j next
• k previous
• r refresh
• v goto current posts home
• g-h goto main page home
• g-a goto articles home
• g-b goto blog home

New wiki features

• Finally added wiki links. Yes that means articles can be linked inside other articles and posts.
• Added the <nowiki> tag
• Added the <nohtml> tag

Future Features

Future UI features

• / search

Know the name of the article you want? Type it in the search and it will take you there directly. Type it slightly wrong? The results will probably get you there anyway.

Future wiki features

Also sparce v3.0 has been moved into RC1 along with a UI change. It now counts how many times you have clicked on a link and orders the links by how many clicks they have received.

Which brings me to the menu above. The menu above is all about the articles. I have limited the article tags to mainly 7 tags. The sparce, tags, and contact menu items are not tags. Sparce is a link to the sister project for bookmarks organized by tags like del.icio.us and click throughs. The tags link is the same as the more tags link under Blog Tags. I might just remove this if it makes sense to keep the two tag clouds together on the same page. Contacts is just a mouseover to display my email address in the second level menu. The others are tags and if you click on them will show you a list of articles that I have filed under that tag. If you mouse over them you might see in the second level menu up to 4 or 5 of the most recent articles.

Now here is where the wiki part comes in. Articles are given a unique name which allow me to interlink articles together or link to articles in my blog posts by just calling the article by name, wiki style. Hopefully this will prevent articles getting lost under newer ones. We will see how this works. If I run into the problem of needing more article tags I might have to come up with a different way of navigating through the blog and article tags. I'm trying to make it easy and non-convoluted while maintaining a single web site.

People can of course comment directly on the article page just like the blog posts. The articles themselves use some wiki markup to make it easier to write them some of that will eventually make its way into the blog code. Eventually I hope to create a completely modular site run by a modified wiki markup language and tags.

There's a phenomenon going on out there in radio land and most of it is taking place over the internet. A few days ago Apple released iTunes 4.9 with support for Podcasting. With the likes of Adam Curry, Chris Pirillo, Dave Winer, and Leo Laporte all podcasting it seems right under out feet. Well here it is, let's see where it takes us.

For the web site I updated the books section again making the entire list run through javascript hopefully making it much easier for me to update as well as faster to load.

It seems there's some good news about Guantanamo with the ruling from the United States Supreme Court. Kuro5hin also has a good article outlining more about the ruling and other things going on about the Hamdi v. Rumsfeld case. I've also been keeping my eye on the Cassini mission which got close to Saturn this week. Fahrenheit 9/11 made a big wave last weekend, I guess I'll have to go see the movie. I've kinda flip flopped between skepticism and agreeing with Michael Moore.

In site related news, I'll be adding a mathematics section here shortly. It will mostly be focused on Calculus with limits as a kind of background for my philosophy section topic in objective observations.

I'm not usually one to read blogs, though one of my friends has, in the tradition of those of us who rarely updates things, a rarely updated blog here, and it seems that lately my site is turning into a blog, however I have been reading a little bit from this blog. How many times can I say the word blog? Thanks please drive through.

To put some news that is at least relevant to the web site I have a very rough draft, and I do mean rough, of some stuff I have been working on for my philosophy.

I havn't been keeping the HOSTS file up to date cause when it loads it eats a significant amount of resources and seems to take a long time to load. Some of my friends have been complaining about sluggish machines when they have it loaded as well. One of my friend suggested it would be cool if there was a web site devoted to managing the HOSTS file, allowing people to add and remove sites. The site could make sure there are no duplicates and could run through the list every week or month to see if any of the sites in the HOSTS file no longer exist so it can remove them. I just might do that. If you don't know what a HOSTS file is go here.

Also added a bunch of new quotes(note: no longer exists), so enjoy.