Standards and Spam Updates
I am pleased to report that we are winning the war on non-standards-compliant code here at souzek.com. Over the past week, the sections of the site devoted to Digby and Veronika were converted to valid XHTML 1.0 strict and CSS, as was the main page. You will not be suprised to learn that the last remaining vestige of ugly, table-laden code on souzek.com is the Souzek Republic, with its self-important design and bordered tables placed just so. It too will eventually be converted to a lighter and more robust CSS layout but it's more work than I can do in one night. Perhaps one day a 'grep -r table /home/lsouzek/public_html/*' will return no results; those who understand me know what an accomplishment that would be.
Also, thanks to the good people at Adivity web hosting. we have enlisted Spam Assassin in our fight against unsolicited email. I activated it late last night and since then it has been deftly dealing fatal blows to prescription drug offers at the rate of about one per hour (just enough to be annoying); it really is an assassin, that's not just a clever name.
And finally as a public service announcement to Movable Type users, I would like to direct your attention to MTPaginate. As far as I can tell, there is no way to break up a long category archive page into pages of n entries each within the constructs native to Movable Type. Using the tags that the MTPaginate plug-in provides, you can break up a long page by words, bytes or user-defined sections and use the automatically generated navigational tools to move between the resulting pages. There's nothing like a dedicated, active development community and an easily extensible product to get people hooked (Linux anyone?).