Ree’s musings

Roy may call this feature mischief, but I deem it account security. LiveJournal has been having problems with fraudulent links used to hijack accounts. They've recently added some security settings that anyone with an LJ account should look into ASAP. (Judging by that post's comments, TinyURL seems to be the main URL shortener/masker.)

Thanks to Roy and his "mischief," that type of hijacking won't work on Tabulas. Thanks, Roy.

I was going to ask for reader opinions, but I think I wouldn't glean much, so you're getting a rambling info-dump instead.

I run smallwood.cjb.net, a reviews site for user-created Dink Smallwood levels. By "run," I mean that I've neglected it for years. My free website host is closing up shop next month. Maybe I should just let my little archive site die at long last, but I've recently discovered a small CMS that wouldn't suit any of my other sites, but it would be perfect for this. I'd really like to play with an actual CMS that doesn't take up thirty smegging megs of filespace, plus database space, plus any user uploads.

The CMS I'm looking at is Pixie, which is about one meg, zipped. It's a young project. The current version won't let me nest my pages in subdirectories, meaning I can't easily replace my other sites with a Pixie-powered version, but it looks almost perfectly suited to running my Dink site.

A free web host wouldn't let me install a CMS, but if I forgo file downloads in favour of linking to offsite downloads, I can make my Dink site fit within my increasingly full paid webspace. Then I get to maintain the links page and updates blog as proper modules within the CMS instead of using Notepad or cPanel to manage everything. cPanel is not a CMS, no matter how much I misuse it like one.

I'm not sure it's worth keeping my oft-neglected site around just to play with a CMS. On the other hand, I'd get a better feel for the system by using it on a live site with pre-existing content than I would by entering ipsum text into a few spots.

I have two weeks until my current free host dies. That gives me some time to figure out if I want to use my new CMS toy, a system of server-side includes, or a different free host instead of my paid one. It'll keep till after supper.

I got artwork for Christmas (Eve)! Mutt drew Mai for me - here's the picture and here's Mutt's comments on it.

"On the -1^st day of Christmas, my Sesha gave to me: a calico White Wolf kitty!" I think that's how the song goes. Right? :D

Well first off, it makes me feel fuzzy inside to see a source outside my state use "SD" to mean "South Dakota."

Second, what on Earth does South Dakota hold for a British actor/athlete? What, did he get lost on his way to the Corn Palace? (Mitchell, SD, "world's only corn palace." Yes, Mitchell, because nobody else wanted one.)

I oughtn't speak like that. Vinnie Jones might hit me.

And FTW, evidently the fight started when someone asked Jones if he was, and I quote, that guy from X-Men. I could not make up this much crazy if you paid me. Dude. Dude. I'm not entirely convinced it's not a hoax.