Kyle Smith

Mike and I have decided that we’re going to work together on the first Op Sys homework. Even though we have yet to write a single line of code or even think about what we’re going to do, it already has a name: hmsh. The helper monkey shell. Builtin commands will include a handy "mksw" (make sandwich, options include '--mayo', '--notomato', etc.) and "samurai" (equivalent to "echo 'THE TUBE IS CIVILIZATION'"). We rock.

In other news, Mike and I also ran the first COSI meeting of the semester, which turned out to be a great success. Things seem quite promising for COSI this semester. Mike is the official news organ, while I’m the puppet master in the shadows. Actually, I’m not. I guess I’ve read Peter’s Evil Overlord List too many times. Why can’t I have minions or inept guards?

Final note: it’s frickin’ cold out. If tomorrow is as bad as this morning was, I think I’m going to pour the rest of my Irish whiskey all over me and set myself on fire.

As I was poking around with the default template for WordPress and reading the online docs, I noticed that WP 1.0 came out yesterday, and it has a Moveable Type importer! I ran it and voila! All my old posts from MT are now available in WP. I’m definitely going to have to continue hacking on it though.

I’ve been screwing around with WordPress, PHPWiki, and PHP iCalendar lately in the hope that I’ll be able to combine them all in some way to have a more dynamic site. I like Moveable Type, but using templates to create static pages seems ludicrous and having static HTML is a pain in the ass because it means I need to edit files locally and then scp them or use ssh and nano. A combination of WordPress and PHPWiki would be the best of all worlds because it would allow me to blog as well as edit pages via the web.