Comments are turned off on this blog because I had trouble with the software that runs this blog; the base software is rather old and quirky. I hope to have time this week to repair it.
I am giving due consideration to new software, but there's a spot of bother. A modern blog is really a database: the web page you see is constructed from a lot of data in a database. In fact many web sites are buil that way &mdsah; they're really databases and the web pages you see are constructed from that database. (Trust me: Amazon doesn't create a new web page from scratch for each of the millions of books it has on file, it creates web pages automatically from a database of all its books.) That's actually quite nice in lots of ways, but not so nice in another, namely that if you don't understand how to extract your files from the database you're at the mercy of the web site software. Migrating to a new database system is no easy task.
My current web site is fairly straightforward and stores all its input in ordinary files, and the blog software simply does formatting for me. I don't feel at the mercy of the software and my inforamtion is always available. But I'm afraid it's time to overcome my fears and place all the data into a real database — and make certain I can pull the data out one day by using an open-source version of the software.
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