Archive for July, 2006

I am back, almost

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

First, thanks for your patience ! The long period of non-blogging has ended. I have got a great news to share. If everything goes right, this adventure will continue ! My doctor course is about to end but my job research went well. I will have to leave 仙台 (SenDai) for 幕張 (MakuHari) “Makuhari” (between Chiba, Disneyland and Tôkyô) for a position as a Research and Development engineer. However, during my blogging break I have noticed that I was spending quite a lot of time to manage the comments from the spammers and what not. Up until now it was not a big problem because my blog is mostly custom made so I did not have problems with run-of-the-mill scripts targetting well known blog platforms. But recently I am literally getting “spam 津波 (TsuNami)“. This blog was built around a very simple script to synchronise post made on my Sony clié. At first I had to hotsync the device to post. Then I built an system based on FTP uploads, comments, rss, spam detection and so on. However, the workflow was not great. I had to write the posts on my japanese clié with HTML entitites for the accents. Then convert the encoding from Shift-JIS to UTF-8 on the clié, ftp the files, hit the browser to refresh the blog, check for mistakes, go back to the device, repost…

Let’s face it I will have less and less time very soon. I don’t have the time to program a simple way to manage the comments. I used to edit the files (I am not using database) directly !

I made my decision. I will switch to a different blog platform. This should give me more time to focus on the content. However, it takes time to install a new system. As it is the holydays season (at least in France) I think that this is the best time to do it.

I am thinking about using WordPress. The blog has to handle many languages. It seems that polyglot is the right plugin for the task. Let me know what you are expecting from the new design.

I am looking for some help so if you know WordPress please contact me. I want to keep all my articles and comments but I might do that later and just launch the new site.

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