OneAndOneIs2

The stampede of diggers has subsided, the hate mail in my inbox is down to just a few a day, and life online is slowly returning to normality. I'm quite tempted to follow Hari's example and have my site disallowed so it can't be linked to from digg: The average user from there makes the average Slashdotter seem an intellectual giant.

Take comment #115:

this is the sort of article who i will use to 'explain' to a computer illiterate person ... technically, the article is wrong

He's managed to spot that it's an explanation for non-technical people, but still wants to complain about technical inaccuracies. The mind boggles. . .

I've never censored comments on posts before, but I'm tempted to start. There's been several very useful & informative comments, but they're pretty much drowned out by all the dross. I've already had to go through and blank-out the swearing. I'll have to see if there's a way to do a digg/Slashdot-style comment moderation that'll hide but not actually delete the worthless material. We shall see. . .

Ah well. The most amusing thing about the whole matter, to me, is that the only reason I made the post in the first place was I wanted to illustrate what I'd posted earlier about encrypted filesystems, and the ASCII diagram seemed a good way of doing it. But I needed to do some background on filesystems first, and so the post on fragmentation evolved out of it. The article I was intending to post still hasn't actually been written :o)

In other news, I was going to go diving yesterday as part of my scuba club's 50th anniversary. But the weather had other ides, and whipped up 9+ foot waves for our entertainment. So that was that idea put on hold for a while.

Conincidentally, I've been working on a new website for the club: The current one is all Frontpage-generated static HTML, which has its disadvantages. I'm playing with CMS systems instead, in particular Mambo: It's not the friendliest bit of software, especially for someone as limited as I am at PHP and CSS, but it's coming along slowly. Courtesy of extensions, we've even got a calendar in place. Hopefully we'll be able to move it to its own host sometime soon. . .

Lastly, Google's online word processor has finally been released at writely.com - take a look if you've got a minute.