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01-27-13: Incidentally, I neglected to mention that the ST-v-SW.Net Weblog is back at a temporary Blogspot home. After blogger killed FTP publishing I'd left it be, hoping that would be my impetus to get the backend work done. That obviously didn't work. So for now, enjoy. 01-01-13: ST-v-SW.Net is changing hosts after almost a decade. Unfortunately I have nothing new beyond that at the moment, but I hope to make some further (and visible) changes around here soon. In the meantime, follow @STvSW on Twitter! 12-04-10: As you might've noticed, there hasn't been much obvious activity of late. The reasons are manifold, but one aspect is that I am awaiting the next version of Drupal to use as a powerful site backend (and to replace the weblog). The experimentation referenced below was going fine, but even the most recent versions of Drupal are absolutely primitive when it comes to image handling … “primitive” as in “no better than all the manual operations I was already doing, and actually worse because it slows me down”. The new version is supposed to be superior in that regard, but if this proves to be incorrect I'll seek another option. The basic rationale there is that whereas I might be able to author a page fairly quickly, doing all the publishing work (here I refer to all the HTML- and image-related activity) simply takes too much a percentage of the total time for a page to get done, and I'd like to both streamline that and make some awesome new features, both for here and for sites like NoLettersHome.info. I'm also going to try to get away from my recent custom of doing mega-page projects. To be sure, I think the quality of something like the recent Star Wars power generation page or older large pages like the Star Trek ground combat page is what I want to see on the site, and of course you know I love the Starship Volumetrics. I think that's a lot better work than little one-off pages like, say, the Phasers vs. Lightsabers page. But at the same time it represents a huge investment of time and energy, made worse by having to find my place and thought process all over again whenever I get back to it (since it's not like I have uninterrupted weeks of time). In that vein, I've been going back through some old e-mails recently that I managed to recover, and there's an amazing amount of stuff that I've discussed with people through the years that never really materialized into good site material. I'll be trying to get some of that thrown onto the site when time permits. But in the end, this is a hobby, and I thank you for enjoying it with me. 04-01-10: There is experimentation in progress regarding some back-end stuff. Images and other portions of the site may be broken for extended periods. Thank you for your patience. |
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